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The great cheesecake caper
It was a great mystery—of the Disappearing Cheesecake Caper. And it had me stumped, for a short time. It all began when Daughter announced she had come upon a recipe for a pumpkin cheesecake that ...
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Dirty rats!
Rats! Oh you dirty rats! Shooting dirty rats came to mind when I was told we had another pack rat move in. That happened once before, forcing my pickup truck to be hauled in three, that’s THREE ,...
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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
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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 photo,...
Bad Penny learns new bad habit
by Sally Maxwell, Managing Editor
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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...
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...
national news

Kentucky State Police Capt. Lisa Rudzinski, left, and Mike Wilder, Executive Director of the Kentucky State Medical Examiners office, right, answer questions during a news conference, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, at the Kentucky State Police Central Forensic Laboratory in Frankfort, Ky. The Kentucky census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with 'fed' scrawled on his chest killed himself but staged his death to make it look like a homicide, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Brian Bohannon)AP - On the surface it all seemed like a gruesome hate crime in a rural part of Kentucky with a history of disdain for the government: a census worker found bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree, the word "fed" scrawled across his chest.


Tue Nov 24 20:30:25 -0600 2009

A Continental Airlines airplane is refueled at its gate at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, March 29, 2009. REUTERS/Gary HershornAP - The government is imposing fines for the first time against airlines for stranding passengers on an airport tarmac, the Transportation Department said Tuesday.


Tue Nov 24 15:42:07 -0600 2009
AP - As an Ohio execution team tried to find a vein during an unsuccessful lethal injection attempt, prison staff sought help from a doctor — a move generally discouraged by ethical and professional medical rules — federal court papers show.
Tue Nov 24 20:24:04 -0600 2009