Durant High School football players are shown during spring practice last week.
Durant High School football head coach Todd Vargas talks to players during spring practice last week.
Durant High School senior wrestler Trinity Webb embraces wrestling head coach Jim Taylor during the recent awards banquet. Webb was presented with the Lion Heart Award which is given to a wrestler who demonstrates determination and a don’t quit attitude.
The Jared Pierce Teammate Award is a new award that was presented at the recent Durant High School wrestling banquet. It is presented to a wrestler who best embodies what it means to be a true teammate no matter your position on the team. Pierce, who graduated in 2020 and died in an accident, was always one who stepped up to help, who helped his teammates get better and who made an impression no matter where he went. The award was presented to Michael Hill, who shares many of the same qualities that made Pierce someone special. Pierce’s dad, Chris Pierce, his brother Jensen and his mother Angela Pierce were present to celebrate this award.
Jeanie Hazell’s Northwest Heights second-grade class entered a contest called Splash Learn to increase their math skills. It was a contest for kindergarten through fifth grade. It focuses on the Oklahoma Objectives for your grade level or the state that you are in. The students work on objectives they have learned in class and when that objective is mastered, they advance onto the next grade level’s objectives. It was a nation-wide contest with 143,091 classes entered in the United States, and Hazell’s class ranked 5th in the nation. They were also 1st in Oklahoma out of 1,919 classes that entered. Hazell said her second graders worked extremely hard in achieving these goals.
Shown are some of the people who attended the 45th anniversary of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol’s darkest day. The event was held at Boland Park in Caddo.
An Oklahoma Highway Patrol airplane flies over Boland Park in Caddo during the 45th anniversary of the Caddo-Kenefic shootouts.
Members of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Honor Guard present the colors during a memorial event for the 45th anniversary of the Cadd0-Kenefic shootouts.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Honor Guard members fire a volley during a memorial event at Boland Park in Caddo. Three troopers were killed in the line of duty by prison escapees 45 years ago.
