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CALVIN – An altercation involving fans and players broke out during a Class B District boys basketball contest at Calvin Friday night.
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These fascinating sites share important and often overlooked stories about people who shaped U.S. history and culture. National parks preserve the legacies of visionaries such as Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington, as well as landmark sites in the struggle for equality, including the Brown v. Board of Education and Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sites and dozens of Civil War battlefields where soldiers fought and died to end slavery and preserve the union.
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It is Black History Month in Clearview. Come join us in celebration of Oklahoma African American athletes and their contributions to society. Meet Darlean Calip, Sapulpa girls’ basketball coach, Felix Jones of the Dallas Cowboys, and Dewey McClain of the Atlanta Falcons. Also, Reginald “ICE” Terry of Booker T. Washington will serve as Emcee.
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Cymone Davis of Tulsa Remote organized a Black Towns and Tulsa Greenwood District Tour for her guest, Emmanuel Felton of New York City, New York, representing the Washington Post. Emmanuel wanted to visit the state which represents a “cultural melting pot.” While in the State of Oklahoma, he visited in the towns of Tullahassee, Taft, and Clearview. In Tullahassee, he visited with Mayor Kesha Gaines, in Taft he visited with Mayor Vernon Curl and Former Mayor and current Councilwoman Lelia Foley Davis, and in Clearview, he visited with Mayor Marilyn Jackson and Trustee Donnie Nero, and Shirley Nero.
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Read morePauline Paschal Laneer died on February 9, 2022, at age 103. She was born on January 18, 1919, in Wetumka, OK, to Lucille Lowder Pasachal and Claud Paschal. She was preceded in death by her husband, Loy Laneer, on January 13, 1993. Pauline is survived by her son, Larry Laneer, and a nephew and cousins. She lived most of her life in Wetumka until she moved to Norman, OK, on June 25, 2005.
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Funeral services for Vickie L. Mead, Wetumka resident, were held Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 2:00 PM at the Living Water Church of Wetumka, Oklahoma. Wake services were held Tuesday, 7:00 PM also at the Living Water Church. Interment followed at the Wiley – Watson Cemetery.
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