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• High of 78 expected today • Four LeFlore County teams make football playoffs • Poteau Rotary Club meets Wednesday • County commissioners go without burn ban • Heavener school Veterans Day program is Wednesday
🏆 LEFLORE COUNTY SPORTS
🏀 Boys Cameron 67, McCurtain 38; 🏀 Clayton 64, Bokoshe 57; 🏀 Girls McCurtain at Cameron (no score reported); 🏀Clayton 37, Bokoshe 33

Happy birthday, America

Rep. Rick West

By Rep. Rick West

July 4 was celebrated with a lot of fanfare this year, as it was also the nation’s 250th birthday. I love this nation. I try never to take for granted the liberty we enjoy. Working in state government, I get a glimpse of how hard it must have been for our nation’s founders to come to agreement on documents such as the Declaration of Independence and, later, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

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