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New COVID-19 Vaccines Rolled Out To Start 2021

Arbuckle Memorial Hospital physician Dr. Teresa Lynn, left, was among the first group of Murray County healthcare workers to receive the corona virus vaccine after a shipment arrived in late 2020.

New COVID-19 Vaccines Rolled Out To Start 2021

The U.S. has emerged from the first World War. It has survived the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. America was entering a decade that will be known as the “Roaring 20’s.”

2021 Year In Review

A few motorists brave the brutal conditions on Broadway Ave., in Sulphur, on Feb. 15 as a record-setting cold wave, bitter wind chills and about four to six inches of snow hit the area. The temperature in Sulphur dropped to a record-setting -14 degrees on Feb. 16 with a wind chill of about -25 degrees.

2021 Year In Review

Bear Runyan takes the oath of office as a new member the Sulphur Board of Education in February.

2021 Year In Review

Christie Pittman resigned her court clerk post in January to join the Chickasaw Nation in a similar position.

2021 Year In Review

The old Dougherty Depot building went home last spring. The structure, which served as a restaurant on S.H. 7, west of Sulphur, for a number of years, was successfully moved back to Dougherty where it originally served as a railroad depot. The building was split in two sections and moved back to Dougherty last week. Above, one of the sections is slowly being moved along S.H. 7 west back to its final resting place. PHOTO BY NEIL MAYO

2021 Year In Review

Sulphur pharmacist Amanda Conley was appointed to the Arbuckle Memorial Hospital Board of Directors last spring, replacing Major Clagg, who retired.

2021 Year In Review

Cliff Agee was elected as a member of the Sulphur Board of Education in a race last spring against Sulphur businesswoman, Jo Hellen Bell.

2021 Year In Review

Michael Plunkett was hired in May as Sulphur Police Chief, replacing David Shores, who retired.

2021 Year In Review

Hundreds of local and area people gathered at the Sulphur City Hall in April to honor longtime civic leader and attorney, Phil Hurst, seated, who retired in December, 2020. Among those honoring him were, from left, in top photo, Dustin Rowe, Justice of Oklahoma Supreme Court, Aaron Duck, Murray County Associate District Judge, Wallace Coppedge, Oklahoma 20th District Court Presiding Judge and Brett Morton, Chickasaw Nation District Court Special Judge.

2021 Year In Review

Oklahoma House Speaker Charles McCall (R-Atoka), center, was sworn into his third term as speaker in ceremonies on January 5. Pictured with him as he took the oath of offi ce were his wife, to his right, Stephanie McCall, and his sons, Chase, left, and Carson, right. Speaker McCall was sworn in by fellow resident and Supreme Court Justice Dustin Row, of Tishomingo. McCall represents House District 22, serving Murray and surrounding counties.

2021 Year In Review

Sulphur and area fire departments kep busy in the early spring battling multiple fires near Hickory along S.H. 1.

2021 Year In Review

At right, firemen put out a blaze along S.H. 7 and crews battled throughout that day to quell the fires.

2021 Year In Review
2021 Year In Review

Mounds of snow are piled up on Muskogee Avenue in downtown Sulphur after city crews began clearing streets and parking areas in the wake of a historic storm that kept the area in the deep freeze for about 13 days. In photo at right, Sulphur city worker, Joey Muck, uses a backhoe to scrape snow and ice from parking areas in the downtown area. All total, this area received some 10 to 12 inches of snow with drifts of several feet. The first storm hit February 14 with snow and blowing snow and bitter cold. The second storm blew in on February 16 with even colder temps and more snow.

2021 Year In Review

Editor’s note: Following is a week-by-week synopsis of the stories published in the Sulphur Times-Democrat in the first six months of the year. Next week, will be a review of the final six months of the year.

Two Killed, One Hurt In House Fire

Sulphur firemen rushed into this inferno on West 9th Street in an heroic attempt to rescue two trapped people last Thursday, but when they got in, a man and woman were found dead, authorities said.

Two Killed, One Hurt In House Fire

A man and woman died in a swift moving house fire last Thursday despite the heroic attempts by Sulphur firemen to try to save them in a home fully engulfed in flames. A third person, who was able to get out and alert a next door neighbor, sustained minor burns, but survived, according to Sulphur Fire Chief Pete Haines.

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