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Grandson Bennett was having trouble settling into first grade during the early weeks of school. He’s a smart little guy and a cheerful one, but found himself getting distracted and making, as he said, bad choices.

Town Talk

Happy December! Do you know you have only 24 more “sleeps” until Christmas morning. Don’t put off your holiday shopping any longer. The holiday season seems to bring stress into people’s lives.

Remembering Pearl Harbor

Next Wednesday is Dec. 7. That day will mark 81 years ago that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the act that thrust the United States into World War II. Hundreds of thousands of American men and women are no longer around to share their feelings, their thoughts about that day.

School board filing period

The three-day filing period for school board offices opens next Monday, Dec. 5, and runs through Wednesday, Dec. 7. Election Board offices in Lincoln and Pottawatomie Counties will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Hearing set for Agra man

An Agra man charged with multiple lewd acts to a minor has made his initial appearance and a judge has scheduled his pre-preliminary hearing. Jason Dwayne Chapman, 41, was formally charged Sep.

Meeker drug suspect appears in court

A Meeker man was who was arrested after officers served a search warrant on his residence across from the Town Hall had made his initial appearance on two drug counts. A formal felony charge was filed in Lincoln County District Court Sep. 23 against John Henry Hagar, 34.

More charges for Prague defendant

A Prague man faces two more felonies in addition to the several he’s already facing for an alleged chop shop operation. A $15,000 bench warrant was issued for the arrest of Mick Devin Vancurren, 31, after he was formally charged Oct.

Hearing set in assault-of-officers case

A Chandler woman facing three felony charges, among them two for assault and battery upon a police officer, has made her initial appearance and a pre-preliminary hearing set. Cheryl Manning, 46, was formally charged in Lincoln County District on Oct.

Reconnected

Charlie Hill, a Marine Corps veteran of two tours of duty in Vietnam, brought a poem to the Lincoln County News office a few weeks ago to see if it could appear in the newspaper’s special Veterans Day section.