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A great American hoax
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A great American hoax
By Slim Randles Guest Columnist 
January 7, 2025
It might have been the winter doldrums that did it. You can never be sure of these things. It’s just that … well, Doc is one of those guys who can’t stand to see anyone bored. He claims it’s bad for t...
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Home for the holidays
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JUST THINKIN'
Home for the holidays
By Just Thinkin' Hal McBride SPECIAL TO YOUR TIMES 
January 2, 2025
Our holidays are prone to have optimism at their core. Our New Years celebration is no exception. Symbolically, we have a new- born replacing a tired, battered old man. An optimistic rebirth. As the h...
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Recalling the winter of ’47
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Recalling the winter of ’47
By Slim Randles Guest Columnist 
December 31, 2024
“Boys, I gotta tell you,” said our old pal Windy Wilson, “This cold transmits me reversely to the winter of ’47. Cold? It thicklicated your blood so much you could hardly walk. You remember it, Doc? O...
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First Day Hikes slated for state parks on New Year’s Day
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KILGORE'S CORNER
First Day Hikes slated for state parks on New Year’s Day
December 26, 2024
Right now, my thermometer reads a pleasant 60 degrees, though the Green Country weathermen warn of a possible winter front approaching. It’s like clockwork, the unpredictable nature of Oklahoma weathe...
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Christmas presents for the grandmas
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Christmas presents for the grandmas
By Slim Randles Guest Columnist 
December 24, 2024
Mabel Adams was sitting in the day room at the Rest of Your Life retirement home when the children came in. She smiled and so did all the others in the room except for two who didn’t know what was goi...
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An ode to ‘Blue Bloods’ and Christmas
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An ode to ‘Blue Bloods’ and Christmas
By Just Thinkin' SPECIAL TO YOUR 
December 19, 2024
On Friday night, as all things in life and entertainment must, the beloved television series "Blue Bloods" came to an end. I think this cops-and-robbers classic owes its long and successful run not to...
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How ODWC’s new license structure continues to benefit hunters
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How ODWC’s new license structure continues to benefit hunters
December 19, 2024
Michael Bergin of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) shared information concerning how Oklahoma’s new license structure continues to benefit hunters as the holiday antlerless deer...
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Our love affair with a fireplace
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Our love affair with a fireplace
By Slim Randles Guest Columnist 
December 17, 2024
It’s natural to mumble nasty things about the cold weather. We all do it from time to time. But even the cold has its merits. One big plus is that it makes fireplaces a reasonable addition to our live...
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The large print edition
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The large print edition
By Just Thinkin' Hal McBride SPECIAL TO YOUR TIMES 
December 12, 2024
My Nook broke. Actually, I haven't owned a Nook in several years. I'm told I have a tablet, but I first owned a Nook. My technology vocabulary is very slow to adapt. Whatever I first own, that label p...
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A time for dreams
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A time for dreams
By Slim Randles Guest Columnist 
December 10, 2024
There is a nighttime sweetness and hope that hovers over us this time of year here at home. This is a time for summing up and looking ahead … and a time for dreams. And at night… ah, that’s the time, ...
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The Wabash Cannonball
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The Wabash Cannonball
By Just Thinkin' Hal McBride SPECIAL TO YOUR TIMES 
December 5, 2024
Listen to the rumbles, listen to the roars They woke me. I reluctantly stirred. I listened, heard nothing more, so I settled back beneath the covers. The sounds returned. I grumbled some fittingly unk...
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Campfire education
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Campfire education
By Slim Randles Guest Columnist 
December 3, 2024
“When you been maturinatin’ ‘long as I have, they’s a few ultimatum facts about life that jest can’t be ignored,” With that, our favorite old-time camp cook, mule packer and occasional predictor of th...
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Thanksgiving 1936
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Thanksgiving 1936
By Just Thinkin' Hal McBride SPECIAL TO YOUR 
November 28, 2024
A frequently cited Thanksgiving cliche states that the holiday is family, food, fun and football. Although some contend the football part has its origins in the explosion of the NFL. The truth is foot...
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Dance like nobody’s watching
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Dance like nobody’s watching
By Slim Randles Guest Columnist 
November 26, 2024
There is a payoff, Doc told us, for getting the aches and pains of old age. Doc should know. We have it on good authority that he is actually older than a flat, brown rock. “Sure,” said Doc, in his us...
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Win or tie
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Win or tie
By Just Thinkin' Hal McBride SPECIAL TO YOUR TIMES 
November 21, 2024
November of a Presidential election year seems to get me thinking about winning and losing. Well, Presidential election years and high school football playoffs. Over the years much has been written ab...
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A Renaissance sock hop
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A Renaissance sock hop
November 19, 2024
You think this pandemic thingie we’re going through is deadly? At least unpleasant? Hey, you’ve come here to this tower of truth to learn the little-known stuff that will make you completely shunned a...
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Simplifying the election process
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Simplifying the election process
By Slim Randles Guest Columnist 
November 12, 2024
“This whole election process just doesn’t work for me,” Dud said, sipping his coffee. “There’s no way we can tell who is best for the job.” Doc, being the senior member of the Mule Barn truck stop’s w...
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March 4 as a national holiday?
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March 4 as a national holiday?
By Slim Randles Guest Columnist 
November 5, 2024
Ah … politics! If you’re a responsible American, as I often pretend to be, you’ll have watched and read and listened to as much hogwash on every side of every question ad nauseum, and we’ll all troop ...
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Just lookin’
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Just lookin’
By Hal McBride SPECIAL TO YOUR TIMES 
October 31, 2024
I had to pay a routine visit to a doctor this morning. A lonely, tattered copy of People was the only magazine on the waiting room tables. It looked lonely, still I didn’t disturb it. I just pulled ou...
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The importance of using blood tracking to locate wounded deer
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The importance of using blood tracking to locate wounded deer
October 31, 2024
Five years ago, I published a story on the innovative approach of using tracking dogs to find wounded deer. At that time, Oklahoma recently had only legalized the practice of blood tracking. My hope w...
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