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On the night where Arapaho-Butler’s fast-pitch softball team was receiving their 2025 Class A State Championship rings, both basketball teams flexed their muscles to sweep the Hinton Comets on the hardwood for the final home game of the regular season.
Columns & Opinions
The second session of the 60th Oklahoma Legislature began yesterday with Governor Kevin Stitt’s final State of the State address. The governor also presented the Legislature with his executive budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year.
DEAR HARRIETTE: My son moved away a couple of months ago. At the time, he told me that he was able to transfer his job, which would make the move that much more seamless. Last week, he called me to tell me that his employment contract will terminate in the next few weeks. I asked him where this was coming from, and he admitted that he knew all along that this was one of the conditions of his temporary office transfer.
Obituaries
Celestino “Jesse” Flores, age 72, lifetime Butler resident, was born April 6, 1953, in Edinburg, Texas, to Virginio and Leonarda (Gonzales) Flores, and passed away at his Butler home on Friday, January 30, 2026.
Funeral services for Robert Walter Watkins, 71, of Clinton, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, at the Randy Kiesau Chapel.