Holdenville News Archives

Priscilla Christine Johnson, 90, of Harvest, Ala., died Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009, at her home.

A nonprofit group that performed a study of Oklahoma school district Web sites this summer says most of the sites don't meet basic criteria for transparency for taxpayers.

HOLDENVILLE a ' Hughes County resident Sue McLoud has a tax warning for rural Oklahoma residents: Living outside the city limits wona TMt necessarily exempt you from paying city sales and use taxes.

Konawa City Council's debate on allowing first floor residences on Broadway ended in Thursday evening's meeting with a 3-2 split vote.

A concrete slab that billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens' scrawled his signature in as a child has been returned to Holdenville.

HIZZONER JUDGE COOK: U.S. Rep. John Sullivan has introduced a bill to rename the old federal courthouse in Tulsa after the late U.S. Senior District Judge H. Dale Cook, who died last year at 84.

Diamondback Cor-rectional Facility has received the Disabled American Veterans' award as the state's top military-friendly employer in the large company category.