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The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and the Choctaw Development Fund on October 26 awarded the town of Coalgate $200,000 that will be used to assist with funding on the Coalgate Community Park project. This is Phase I of a three-part project to update the Coalgate Community Park in Coalgate, Okla.
Read moreThe Coalgate City Council met Thursday, October 28, for a special meeting.
Read moreThe Wallace Byrd Middle School Student Council is sponsoring a food collection for families that do not have the means to enjoy a festive Thanksgiving dinner.
Read moreHOSPITAL BOND ELECTION— First time voter Patrick Kingston exercising his right to vote. A senior at Coalgate High School, Patrick voted at the Coal County Election Board on Friday during the two-day early voting period. 63 voters cast in-person absentee ballots on Thursday, November 4, and 91 cast ballots on Friday, November 5, (Editor’s note: Election results were not available at press time for this week’s paper. Results posted Tuesday evening on social media and will be published in the November 17 paper.)
Read moreCoalgate firefighter/Coal County Emergency Management Director Berney Blue with his beautiful Dalmatians, wife Chayenne and 3-month-old daughter Skyler, and firefighter-in-training son, 2-year-old Asher.
Read moreOn September 29, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution introduced by Senators Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Jerry Moran (R. Kansas), Jon Tester (D-Montana), Jack reed (D-Rhode Island) and Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) to honor the centennial of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
Read moreIn the early morning hours of November 11, 1918, representatives of France, Britain, and Germany met in a railroad car near Compeigne, France, To sign an armistice ending World War I, or The Great War, as it was known at that time. The cease-fire took effect at 11:00am that day - The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Up and down the trenches, after four long years of the most horrific fighting the world had yet known, the guns fell silent. “The roar stopped like a motor car hitting a wall,“ one U.S. soldier wrote to his family. Soldiers on both sides slowly climbed out of the earthworks. Some danced; some cheered; some cried for joy; some stood numbed. The Great War had left some 9 million soldiers dead and another 21 million wounded. No one knows how many millions of civilians died. Much of Europe lay in ruins. But finally, with the armistice, it was “all quiet on the Western Front.“
Read moreA 49-year-old man from Mobile, AL was arrested on drug and firearm charges the afternoon of November 3 after Officer Christian Shomo stopped his vehicle for speeding in a school zone.
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