IT’S SIGNING DAY! Coalgate High School softball player Chloe Brown signed a letter of intent with Eastern Oklahoma State College in Wilburton on November 5. Chloe is the daughter of Bryen and Kim Brown of Wapanucka and Karrie Sewell of Okmulgee. She has attended Coalgate Public Schools for 14 years and is a member of the Lady Cats fast-pitch and slow-pitch softball teams. With Chloe at the signing table are Southeastern Assistant Coach Anthony Whisenhunt (sitting); Macey Hatfield, Chloe’s travel ball coach; and Coalgate Coach Logan Brown.

Coalgate High School seniors Mersadey McNutt, Sarah Hall and Karsyn Flowers were chosen All-American Cheerleaders and given the chance to perform in the Varsity Spirit Spectacular at the Walt Disney World Resort.

An East Central University junior has earned a $1,000 scholarship from the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA) as one of the state’s most promising media students.

KINDNESS IN ACTION — The Coal County Farm Bureau women’s committee presented 227 pairs of eyeglasses to the Coalgate Lions Club on November 16. The glasses were collected during a local donation drive and will be given to a Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center where they will be sorted and cleaned and their prescription strengths determined. Donated glasses are packaged and stored for future vision missions in the United States as well as foreign countries. They are given free of charge to children and adults who may otherwise not have the means to obtain eyeglasses. Shown from left – Warren Bailey, President, Coalgate Lions Club; Krissie Haney, Coal County Farm Bureau women’s committee; Russ Wright, Coalgate Lions Club; Dr. Kay Helms, Coal County Farm Bureau women’s committee.

Coal County voters went to the polls on November 9 to decide two bond propositions – Proposition 1 for $11,675,000 to build a new hospital and Proposition 2 for $9,070,000 to upgrade Mary Wilson Hurley Manor nursing home.

On this Veterans Day 2021, special recognition and honor goes to Coal County’s only surviving World War II veteran, J.D. Smith. J.D. served three years in the U.S. Navy, much of which was spent in the South Pacific.