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DURANT – Over the years
DURANT – Over the years, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Southeastern Oklahoma State University have teamed up on numerous projects for the benefit of students and the community. One of the partnership’s latest efforts – Choctaw U – was recently awarded the Exceptional Program Award (Credit) by the Association for Continuing Higher Education — Great Plains Region. The award was presented last week at the Association’s Regional Conferen...
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Citizens for Silo’s Future prepares for successful campaign
DURANT – “Building Better Futures” is the new slogan for the Silo School bond campaign, chosen at the March 12 meeting of Citizens for Silo’s Future. The committee members met to begin preparations for a successful campaign, with two new members joining the effort. The Voter Registration committee is co-chaired by Katie Brister, Silo Elementary Principal, and Kate McDonald, Silo Junior High/High School Academic Advisor. April 19 is the de...
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Life-saving app introduced during Red Cross Month
Texoma Red Cross representatives were in Durant Wednesday spreading the word about Red Cross Month. The American Red Cross was created in 1881 and has since continually operated from the support and help of the public. Every year the president of the United States proclaims March as Red Cross Month. “It’s the month we try to let people know what we are all about,” said Red Cross Volunteer and Training Specialist Rene Beezley. Beezley ...
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Wade shooting remains under investigation by OSBI
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is not releasing any additional details about a shooting death that happened early Thursday morning at a Wade residence. According to OSBI, Parker Allen Tyson, 27, who was armed with a handgun, kicked in the door to a home at 42 Main St. in Wade, and a person inside the home shot Parker several times. Tyson was taken to the Medical Center of Southeastern Oklahoma where he was pronounced dead later ...
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Road overlay begins on South Ninth Avenue
The overlay project on Highway 69B (South Ninth Avenue), began Thursday and will continue for approximately 10 days, Durant/Bryan County Emergency Management said. Construction workers began paving operations on the roadway from the Mineral Bayou Bridge to the new Highway 70 Bypass. The road will be down to one lane and have flagmen directing traffic flow. “Motorists should avoid travel on this section of roadway if possible, Durant/Bryan...
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Oklahoma House rejects plan to cut OETA funding
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Lawmakers killed a proposal Thursday that would have slowly reduced state funding for Oklahoma’s public television network, but the author of the bill said the agency still could be phased out of existence. The House voted 57-41 against the bill to reduce state appropriations to the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority. The agency received about $3.8 million in state funding the last two fiscal years, which acc...
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City Employees including Larry Mitchell, John Chaloux, Jimmy Gasaway, Jonathan Gibson, Patrick Goddwin, John James, Chad Jamison, Frank Kimray and Daniel Raymond were honored at Tuesday's city council meeting for their added value to the city for picking up litter on the city roadways.
Durant City Council meets
Durant City Council met Tuesday March 12 and discussed several current projects within the city. The first project discussed was the Red versus Blue Trash off which kicks off Friday, March 15 at 10:30 a.m. in the parking lot of Goody’s in Durant. The Durant Police and Fire Departments will be competing to see who can have the most recycled items donated to their cause. Bins will be set up with a blue banner for police and a red banner f...
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Firefighters responded to several fires in the county
Area firefighters responded to several fires Wednesday, some of which were controlled burns and another that became out of control and spread to a structure. According to a police dispatch log, there were many “controlled burns” held Thursday. Volunteer firefighters were dispatched at 1:22 p.m. to 32 E. Sycamore St. in Lakewood Ranchettes to a fire that started out as a controlled burn and then caught a house on fire which quickly became ...
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Man shot to death early this morning
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is investigating a shooting death that happened early this morning in Wade. According to OSBI representative Jessica Brown, 27-year old Parker Allen Tyson from Bennington was shot at approximately 12:30 a.m. At 14 Main Street in Wade. Reports are that Tyson had kicked in the door of the house on Main Street and was carrying a handgun, according to OSBI. The resident of the home fired several roun...
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OKC archbishop calls Francis’ election ‘wonderful’
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City’s Roman Catholic archbishop said Wednesday that the selection of a pope from the New World was a “wonderful surprise” but that he didn’t know what agenda the new pontiff would take to the Vatican. “We will see what he chooses to address as his priorities,” Archbishop Paul S. Coakley said during a news conference following the election of the former Cardinal Jorge Maria Bergoglio as Pope Francis. Coak...
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Okla. House OKs attempt to ‘nullify’ health law
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma House moved Wednesday to declare the federal health care law “null and void” in the state, approving a bill over the objection of Democrats who argued it was nothing more than a political statement. The House voted 72-20 for the bill by Republican Rep. Mike Ritze, a Broken Arrow physician and a fierce opponent of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which he frequently refers to as “O...
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Okla. House approves bill to allow armed teachers
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Public school districts across Oklahoma could decide whether to allow armed teachers in classrooms under a bill approved late Tuesday in the Oklahoma House. The Special Reserve School Resource Officer Act passed by the House on a 68-23 vote despite concerns raised by opponents over the safety and liability allowing armed teachers. “Our children are grossly unprotected from an active violent threat,” said Rep. Mark...
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Okla. House approves income tax cut proposal
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A plan backed by Gov. Mary Fallin to slash the state’s top personal income tax rate easily cleared the Republican-controlled Oklahoma House on Tuesday over the objection of Democrats who argued it would take funding from critical state services. The House voted 65-30 for the bill by House Speaker T.W. Shannon, R-Lawton, to cut the top rate from 5.25 percent to 5 percent, beginning Jan. 1. The bill now heads to the S...
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Texas boy, 11, dies in ATV crash
UTICA (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says an 11-year-old Texas boy was killed in an all-terrain vehicle accident. The highway patrol says Colton Chreene of Flower Mound was driving an ATV Monday night when he made a left turn into a ravine and crashed. Authorities say the boy was taken to a hospital in Durant, where he was pronounced dead. Authorities say the crash happened in rural Utica in southeastern Bryan County. The highwa...
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Senate approves plan to reduce income tax
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Republican-backed plan to reduce the state’s top personal income tax rate by one-half of 1 percent and offset most of the lost revenue by eliminating or changing dozens of exemptions in the tax code cleared the Oklahoma Senate on Monday. The Senate voted 33-13, mostly along party lines, for the bill sponsored by Sen. Mike Mazzei, R-Tulsa. The measure now heads to the House for consideration. The bill would reduc...
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Gary Beadles is chairman of the Polio Eradication Campaign Committee for Rotary District 5990. He spoke to the Rotary Club of Durant recently about the ongoing effort to defeat the illness.
A passion to end polio
Every Tuesday, Rotarians from Durant pass a large can which they stuff with dollar bills and loose change. The money in the can adds up quick, and at the end of each month Rotarian Pam Mitchell-Robinson is able to send a check to Rotary International for their polio eradication and vaccination fund. It is all part of a worldwide passion by more than 30,000 Rotary clubs who have been working to eliminate the paralysis-inducing disease for ...
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Choctaw pilots fly wounded vets
  Quenton McLarry remembers the determined double amputee “who brought his own board.” The legless Afghanistan war vet was wheeled to the steps of McLarry’s plane where he wedged the board between the steps and his chair. Then he scooted on his bottom up to the top of the steps, hoisted himself onto the plane’s floor, scooted again down the aisle, then pulled himself up onto the plane seat, and he was ready to go. And he wasn’t the only...
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Okla. bills both expand, restrict access to info
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma legislators are pushing measures that would close public records and give public bodies more opportunities to meet in secret, but open government advocates are also praising lawmakers this session for their commitment to providing more public access to state entities. With the 2013 legislative session in full swing, the media and open-government groups are monitoring dozens of bills that would either expand...
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Dustin Roberts and Josh Brecheen addressed public legislative concerns at a town hoall meeting held in the Donald W Reynolds Community Center and Library Friday morning.
Public concerns addressed at town hall meeting
State Senator Josh Brecheen and State Representative Dustin Roberts led a town hall meeting in Durant Friday morning. Senator Brecheen began the event with a few words on the condition of the state. Brecheen said that Oklahoma has the lowest cost of living, fourth lowest cost of business and one of the lowest unemployment rates. Brecheen said one thing Oklahoma has to work on is the workers comp reforms. he said that Oklahoma has approx...
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Amid crowded jails, Okla. looks to boost felonies DAmid crowded jails, Okla. looks to boost felonies
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The recent momentum to reduce Oklahoma’s exceptionally high incarceration rate has fizzled out, officials said this week. The Justice Reinvestment Initiative, signed by Gov. Mary Fallin last May, aimed to encourage rehabilitation of nonviolent offenders, lessen the emphasis on prison time and supervise prisoners after release, among other provisions. All were meant to prevent repeat offending, make the state safer a...
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