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The Clothes-closet Dilemma
Everybody’s complaining — to sweater or not to sweater. Hey, it’s just Oklahoma weather. I tell people to layer. Layering is an important part of dressing for Oklahoma weather. Around here you hav...
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Lunch Bunch member tells big fish story
Crystal Box (that’s the greatest name), Your TIMES advertising rep., came in last week and said she had received terrible news. “What?” The Lunch Bunch asked, with sincere concern. “Grandma came...
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All cooks need a sense of humor, or just blame mistakes on the computer
This week we honor Women in Business, in a special edition published in this issue. Your TIMES and the Sallisaw Chamber of Commerce honor the women in our community who not only maintain homes a...
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Tales of tiny critters — ugh!
Everyone I know likes critters — puppies, kittens, etc., and their grownup counterparts, usually. But hardly anyone I know likes little bitty critters, like that itty bitty black spider I had to s...
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The great tour bus chase
Linda Copeland, Your TIMES photographer and writer, was having a bad day last week. She reported even before lunch that she had bumped her head while trying to get out of her car and take a phot...
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Bad Penny learns new bad habit
The Bad Penny, my little mini pin named Bad Penny because she kept coming back, has a new bad habit. We don’t know where Bad Penny, who I just call Penny now, came from. That’s because her first b...
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Will someone please wake this woman up?
by Sally Maxwell, Managing Editor
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Confession time. I am a morning mummy. Yes, even though my eyes appear to be open, don’t believe everything you see. Eyes may be open but brain is still slumbering. To prove this I confess I have ...
Hurry freeze! Bugs are bugging us
by Sally Maxwell, Managing Editor
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Ahearty hello to early fall weather. Whoopee, I’m excited. I’m not melting anymore. The outside temperature is finally below 90 degrees. I’m so excited I can’t hide it. Oops. That’s the name of a ...
It’s vacation time… and I need a nap!
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It’s so wonderful to have your family members come to visit on THEIR vacation. It’s so wonderful when they go home. Oh no, no, no. It’s not that we don’t love them. If possible we love them even ...
Critters can capture your heart…when you’re not looking!
by Sally Maxwell, Managing Editor
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Since our critters are members of our families (and I know most of you out there know what I mean), they get the same loving care that all family members do. So it was with my Bad Penny, the prett...
Shocked Silly Sally
by Sally Maxwell, Managing Editor
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May no one out there ever be shocked silly or even worse by lightning. The good news is I wasn’t home. If I had been I may have been more than shocked silly. Large shocking lightning and the accom...
To T.P. or not to T.P. That’s the wrong question!
by Sally Maxwell, Managing Editor
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“Why do teenage girls have to use a whole roll of toilet paper to fix their makeup?” That question was posed by Courtney C., Your TIMES staff writer. And she posed the question right out of the bl...
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The 2007 picture provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences shows Nidal Malik Hasan when he entered the program for his Disaster and Military Psychiatry Fellowship. Authorities said he went on the killing spree at Fort Hood, Texas which left 13 people dead. (AP Photo/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)AP - A chaplain exhorted hundreds of mourners gathered at a candlelight vigil to not give up hope as Fort Hood and its surrounding community looked to each other for comfort after an Army psychiatrist allegedly went on a deadly shooting spree at the military post.


Sat Nov 07 08:22:01 -0600 2009

FILE - In this Oct. 29,2009, file photo Crystal Chiu places a placard on the podium on Capitol Hill in Washington, prior to a news conference about health care. House Democratic leaders struggled Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts and abortion foes. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - President Barack Obama is trying to close the deal in the House on his health care overhaul, facing a make-or-break vote that's certain to be seen as a test of his presidency.


Sat Nov 07 08:02:45 -0600 2009

This image made from video provided by Channel 13 News in Orlando, Fla., shows Jason Rodriguez being taken into custody by police officers in Orlando, Fla. Rodriguez, 40, opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, authorities said, killing at least one person and injuring five others. (AP Photo/Channel 13 News, cfnews13.com)  MANDATORY CREDIT   NO SALESAP - Employees at an engineering firm recognized their former co-worker when he drew a handgun from under his shirt, police said, and shot his first victim dead in the reception area. He then walked into the office and unloaded several more rounds, wounding five other employees at the company that fired him two years ago.


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