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Diabetes Prevention program offered

News Staff
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Community members 18 years of age or older who have been diagnosed with prediabetes or previously diagnosed with gestational diabetes are eligible to participate in the Centers for Disease Control’s Diabetes Prevention Program.
Jackson Barton

Jackson Barton

Barton and Wayland are November Lions

News Staff
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Chandler High School seniors Jackson Barton and Rachel Wayland have been chosen as Lions of the Month by the Lion’s Club for the month of December.

Tax assessment period begins

News Staff
Thursday, December 24, 2020
The Lincoln County Assessor’s office will begin taking exemption applications and personal property assessments on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, according to Assessor Jackie Holcomb. The annual exemption and assessment period will continue until March 15, 2021.

McLoud City Council

News Staff
Thursday, December 24, 2020
McLoud City Council members have adopted a resolution of a notice of election for the coming year. The terms of three of the Council members come to an end in 2021.

McLoud man gets 57 months on automatic weapons charge

News Staff
Thursday, December 24, 2020
A McLoud man who was arrested and charged last summer with unlawfully possessing a fully automatic weapon has been handed a federal prison sentence. Christopher Steven Ledbetter, 29, of McLoud, was arrested June 4 by FBI agents in Oklahoma City.

‘A Savior has been born’

News Staff
Thursday, December 24, 2020
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register.
Christmas cheer

Christmas cheer

Christmas cheer

News Staff
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Chandler was bursting with Christmas spirit over the weekend. Above, Felicia Ballard serves Christmas dinner to Khristal and Randy McLeod at the Open Doors Ministry Christmas event at Douglass Community Center.
COVID vaccine

COVID vaccine

COVID vaccine

News Staff
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Joan Walters receives the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Lincoln County last week. An RN and Stroud Regional Medical Center’s infection control practitioner Joan Walters, RN, was one of 56 health care professionals who received the vaccine from the Lincoln County Health Department.

Meeker hears drop-out report

News Staff
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
The Meeker Board of Education was presented the dropout report for the Middle School and High School during its meeting earlier this week. Middle School Dean of Students Virgil Fowler reported no dropouts during the 2018-2019 school year.

COVID Deaths continue rise in area

News Staff
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
The number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 has increased by two in Lincoln County and by one in Pottawatomie County in the last few days, the Oklahoma State Department of Health reports.
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