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🏈Heavener 15, Spiro 0 (forfeit) 🏈Sallisaw 24, Poteau 21; 🏈 Pocola 38, Panama 14 🏈 Talihina 63, Liberty 8.🏀 Boys: Cameron 80, Clayton 39; Wister 69, Stuart 37 🏀 Girls Stuart at Wister (no score reported); Cameron 42, Clayton 30.

Grego, West concerned over mental health resignation letters

Rep. Rick West

OKLAHOMA CITY – Reps. Jim Grego, R-Wilburton, and Rick West, R-Heavener, on Thursday sent letters to the governor and Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS) Commissioner Joshua Anderson expressing concern over a fill-in-the-blank resignation email state employees said they received from the department.

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Water is Life

Rep. Rick West

By Rep. RICK WEST 

As vice chair of the House Agriculture Committee, I attended an interim study last week on the subject of water. Turns out this wasn’t just about any water. It targeted Southeast Oklahoma water. Those who live in the western part of the state want it.

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