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Seminole residents Clint and Peggy Jackson recently celebrated their 70 th wedding anniversary on Wednesday, July 22.
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Read moreThe shelves at local stores are loaded with boxes of bright crayons, notebooks, pink erasers and shiny new lunchboxes.
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If you take a newspaper in one hand and a Bible in the other, read both to realize they have a lot in common in revealing what will happen in the last days.
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DEAR ABBY: I became pregnant with my second child in 2013. When my extended family heard the news, it was not well-received, particularly by my grandmother and aunt-in-law.
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George Roberts operates a farm in Seminole County on the same land his family obtained through the Emancipation Proclamation. A documentary featuring Roberts will air this Sunday at 9 p.m. on CNN. Courtesy Photo
Read moreThis weekend, the CNN documentary series Shades of America will be highlighting Oklahoma farmers in their Sunday, July 26 episode. George, Milford, and Alvin Roberts, who are some of the last black farmers who still own and operate the ranch earned by their family through the Emancipation Proclamation, will be featured in the episode. Their farm, Circle “R” Ranch, is located in Seminole County. In a press release sent by the brothers’ niece Dr. Tammy Grey-Steele, she calls the Roberts, “the last few of the backbones of the black farm heritage.”
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