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I have been associated with a variety of newspapers in one category or another for the past 70 years. It all started when I was a freshman at Holdenville High School and the World’s Best English Teacher (Christine Provence) leaned over my desk as she handed back a theme I had written in her freshman English Class and whispered, “John Bill, I think you have a talent for writing. You might want to pursue that.”
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Many years ago, Dayna and I would enjoy going out for supper and then going to a movie. After a few years we just went out for supper because we didn’t want to stay up late enough to see a movie. A few more years and it changed to dinner, usually after church because we didn’t want to stay out when it started getting dark.
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By John Bill Martin Staff Writer
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There has been no public funeral, but almost everyone is aware that Common Sense in the country is dead. We received the following obituary….
Read moreCovid perils are still holding forth. But just not so bad now as perhaps a week or two ago. And will it reload and again assert itself as the big news story of our time and be the killer it has been. I hope not. This Covid has terrorized the world long enough. Well, long enough for me. One doctor amazed at the denial among the anti-vaxxers reports that many of these deniers who have already been smacked down by this dreaded virus insist to the death (theirs) that they don’t have Covid. Such is the strength of the organizers of resistance to this happening. It’s very sad. But the denial is as real as the virus itself.
Read moreIt was windy and lonely looking. And it was cold that day, like it was this last winter. Yep, the spot being perused by my brother Gerald and I was the place where we had lived once upon a time a long time ago.
Read moreVoters in Hughes County who want to have absentee ballots mailed to them for the September 14, 2021, Special Schools Election for Wetumka and Graham-Dustin School District should apply now, County Election Board Secretary Brandy Davis said today.
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