LIFE SCHOOL EXTENDS EMERGENCY PAID SICK LEAVE

Red Oak – In the Spring of 2020, the Life School Board of Directors approved emergency paid sick leave in response to Congress passing the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. This law provided up to two weeks (10 workdays) paid leave to employees impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

ROISD Trustee will vote no on district contract tracing

RED OAK – Red Oak ISD Trustee Place 5 Penny Story says she will vote “no” on paying for issues resulting from ROISD using contract tracing. The resolution regarding Story’s referenced contract tracing did pass according to Beth Trimble, CPC, Red Oak ISD, Executive Director of Communications.

Texas could gain 3 congressional seats after 2020 census

AUSTIN – Texas could gain three seats in Congress after adding more than 4-million people over the last 10 years, according to testimony offered before the Senate Special Committee on Redistricting Monday.

TASTE: put a zesty spin on weeknight meals

FAMILY FEATURES – Dinner in many households means foolproof recipes that families can count on, but those can become bland and boring. Finding new ways to put a twist on meals throughout the week adds fun to time spent in the kitchen while bringing new flavor to the table.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (January 28, 2021)

EDITORIAL: Democrats’ impeachment fever will make the 2022 midterms Tee-Ball for Republicans

The Senate trial of former President Donald Trump will begin on Feb. 8, according to a joint agreement between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

EDITORIAL: Joe Biden’s far-left ‘unity’ will divide us

The joke survives the test of time and, under the circumstances, deserves repeating. As the late journalist Mickey Carroll told it, a suburban town with a population 90 percent Irish and 10 percent Jewish held a mayoral election involving two candidates – one Irish and one Jewish.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Mem’ries of a song leader, a folded paper, and a friend

Welcome to the “front porch.” Every time I come to the modest church building in Lexington, Oklahoma, I find a newspaper from the Purcell Register in my pew. That newspaper has miraculously appeared every week for quite a few years. The paper’s appearance actually isn’t miraculous.

OUT TO PASTOR: Coffee without coffee... just ain’t coffee

I must soberly confess that I have throughout my life given in to habits and rituals. I don’t like saying that, but it is the truth. At this point, I don’t know the difference between a habit and a ritual.

Prayer, COVID-19 and Biden

Harken to these words, take them seriously; understand it matters not what we think, God is greater than our thoughts. What people have yet to understand, the church, the world and religious people cannot pray COVID-19 away or its different strains. COVID-19 can only be repented away.