Goodbye 2023, hello 2024
By CRAIG HALL [email protected] This is, of course, the last day of 2023 and as such, I want to thank all of you who are our supporters, the readers of…
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Sen. George Burns’ senate review 12-29-2023
By Sen. GEORGE BURNS Entering the New Year, I’m eager for the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. As we step into 2024, I carry with me the hope that…
Support live music 12-26-2023
Support local music in the LeFlore County area By TERRY JOE WILES Auld Lang Syne As an Earthly mile-marker, New Year’s Eve has become a place of renewal, of starting…
Looking ahead
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD [email protected] Regarding this Christmas season’s series regarding the birth of Christ as the Incarnation of God, I am humbled. I greatly appreciate the comments and observations from…
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
One of my traditions each year is to run one of the most famous columns of all time, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” From The Sun, September 21, 1897. This…
Merry Christmas to all
By TERRY JOE WILES Ya know, since the world population has increased nearly four times since I arrived on New Year’s Eve in 1951, there are four times the opportunity…
Find your freedom in music
By TERRY JOE WILES Well, here I am once again. And as an old carpenter that I worked with put it- “I’s jus’ so glads ta b her’.” I had…
God and man
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD If you’ve read my previous two columns (“Getting Into the Christmas Spirit” and “The Incarnation”) you are perhaps aware, I am not celebrating the birth of Jesus…
The incarnation
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD [email protected] For years, I thought of Christmas as the celebration of Christ Jesus’ birthday, but perhaps I’ve matured a bit in my understanding. Now, I try to…
December is filled with live music
By TERRY JOE WILES “Fill your day with Love and Laughter. If ya can’t do that, fill it with music”! – somebody?