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By Randy Mitchell In the final nondistrict game of the regular season, the Coalgate Wildcats varsity football team came up just short Friday night in a twoovertime thriller at Allen. “Big plays beat us,” Head Coach Nathan Hill said. “If you don’t take care of business, that happens to you.”
Read moreThe Coal County Board of County Commissioners proclaimed on Monday, September 19, that extreme fire danger still exists in the county.
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If my body was a pick-up, this is the time I would be thinking about trading it in for a newer model.
Read moreBy Kaylee McGhee White
Many, many years ago When I was twenty-three, I got married to a widow Who was pretty as could be. This widow had a grown-up daughter Who had hair of red.
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Good news for Oklahoma, in the case of a zombie apocalypse we are in good shape to survive according to a recent report from Lawnlove.com entitled “Best cities for surviving a Zombie Apocalypse.” Only Oklahoma City made the survey, and it was 81st on the list.
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The City of Coalgate filed a lawsuit on September 8 against Adam Cioni, d/b/a Cioni Machine, to either pay the shop’s delinquent rent or vacate the premises. According to an affidavit filed by City Attorney David Youngblood, Cioni is currently behind $3,000 for three months’ rent.
The affidavit states that the city has demanded Cioni vacate the property, “but to this date he remains wrongfully in possession” of three city lots and “has made no attempt to vacate the premises.” The property includes a shop building at 109 W. Ohio and empty lots that are being used for vehicle parking.
Over 100 years before Americans started spending their days hunched over smartphones, a Post author saw a similar habit developing. Look about you in a railway train, in a street car or bus, you will observe that everyone is reading—men, women, and even the innocent little children. Silent, glum, their eyes glued to book or paper . . . The very act of reading is unsocial. It is a kind of melancholy barbarism. We have such a precious deal of reading to do that conversation is out of the question. We have no time to talk. Conversation is decaying. We are reading ourselves into a silent race. --“The Lost Art of Conversation” by Vance Thompson, June 24, 1899
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