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Hadley Fields sits on her father Bryson Fields’ shoulders and rests her head during Caddo Heritage Day Oct. 4. Matt Swearengin | Durant Democrat

Hadley Fields sits on her father Bryson Fields’ shoulders and rests her head during Caddo Heritage Day Oct. 4. Matt Swearengin | Durant Democrat

Caddo Heritage Day Parade

News Staff
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Caddo Heritage Day Parade.
Kiamichi Tech – Durant broke ground last week for what will be the Skilled Systems Training Center. Matt Swearengin | Durant Democrat

Kiamichi Tech – Durant broke ground last week for what will be the Skilled Systems Training Center. Matt Swearengin | Durant Democrat

Kiamichi Tech breaks ground on Skilled Systems Training Center

Matt Swearengin
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Kiamichi Tech celebrated a groundbreaking last week for its new Skilled Systems Training Center at the Durant campus, a project KTC says will expand training opportunities to meet the growing workforce needs of Bryan County and southeastern Oklahoma.
Alicia Farley was named the Kiwanian of the Year during the Kiwanis Club of Durant recent banquet and she is shown with Kiwanian Jason Manous. Matt Swearengin | Durant Democrat

Alicia Farley was named the Kiwanian of the Year during the Kiwanis Club of Durant recent banquet and she is shown with Kiwanian Jason Manous. Matt Swearengin | Durant Democrat

Kiwanis Club has annual banquet

Matt Swearengin
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Awards were presented and officers were installed at the recent Kiwanis Club of Durant annual installation banquet at the Massey Building in downtown Durant. Alicia Farley was named Kiwanian of the Year.
Matt Swearengin | Durant Democrat Durant High School senior Jordan Davenport speaks to the Durant Board of Education.

Matt Swearengin | Durant Democrat Durant High School senior Jordan Davenport speaks to the Durant Board of Education.

Durant schools says student can now use his graduation picture of him wearing Choctaw regalia

Matt Swearengin
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Durant High School senior Jordan Davenport, who addressed the school board last week about not being allowed to wear his Choctaw regalia for his graduation photo in the yearbook, is now allowed to use a picture of him wearing it, the Durant School District said, in a news release published Oct.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. Mark Southall, left, public information office, and Capt. Scott Hampton, commander of OHP Troop E, showed a new patrol car last week. OHP has been driving black cars and is now returning to black and white. Matt Swearengin | Durant Democrat

Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. Mark Southall, left, public information office, and Capt. Scott Hampton, commander of OHP Troop E, showed a new patrol car last week. OHP has been driving black cars and is now returning to black and white. Matt Swearengin | Durant Democrat

OHP returning to black and white patrol cars

Matt Swearengin
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol is phasing out the black patrol cars and returning to black and white, the original color scheme used by OHP. Lt.
Rever Stephens rides a go-cart during the Durant Police Department National Night Out and also shown is his mother, Becca Dunegan.

Rever Stephens rides a go-cart during the Durant Police Department National Night Out and also shown is his mother, Becca Dunegan.

Durant Police National Night Out

News Staff
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Durant Police National Night Out.

COMING EVENTS

News Staff
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Oct. 21 The Bryan County Federation of Democratic Women (BCFDW) meeting will be held Tuesday, October 21 at noon at the Donald W Reynolds Library in Durant.

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

News Staff
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Recorded in the Bryan County Clerk’s Office Texoma Building Services to Joseph Graham, warranty deed Trinity Ranch Revocable Living Trust and Thelma Olson Everhart Trustee to William Shane Beaty and Cynthia Marie Nelson, warranty deed Joni Beamish to Taylor Nicole Lawalin, warranty deed David Bart...

COURT RECORDS

News Staff
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Felonies filed Jacob Colton Haddock, 28, Durant, fugitive from justice. Nakomal C.
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