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Voters in Coal County who want to have absentee ballots mailed to them for the April 7 Board of Education General Election should apply now, County Election Board Secretary Amber Fanning said today. Although the County Election Board can accept applications for absentee ballots until 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, Fanning urged voters who want to vote by absentee ballot to apply early.
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Misdemeanors Johnathon Randell Smith, Irving, TX – Driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs; possession of controlled dangerous substance.
Read moreThe Coal County Public Library, a member of the Southeastern Public Library System (SEPLSO), will begin reducing service immediately and will close all physical operations starting Saturday, March 21st through at least Monday, April 6th.
Read moreHere it is. Another week. Same old Corona virus. Well not really. But it does make me think of the old 1918 Spanish Flu that swept the world. In 1918 there was not much radio and no TV. News traveled slow. Grandpa probably had heard little about the flu when he boarded the train there in Wister to travel to Fort Smith for a song leader’s conference. George Boyd was the song leader at the Free Will Baptist Church there in Liberty, a nice little church next to Mountain Creek in the shadow of Wolf Mountain.
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Several Coalgate players were recently honored with Class 2A District 8 Football Awards for the 2019 season.
Read moreCoal County voter turnout numbers were on the low side in the March 3 Presidential Preferential Primary Election.
Read moreA 75-year-old Lehigh man was fatally injured in a two-vehicle collision Tuesday, March 2, in Pontotoc County. The accident occurred .5 miles west of Stonewall on SH 3 at 1:26 p.m. All lanes of SH 3 at the Stonewall exit were closed for approximately an hour and a half.
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