🌱 Remember when a Roland gas station sold a $105 million ticket?

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In today's newsletter:

• Remember when a Roland gas station sold a $105 million ticket?

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Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Periods of sun, with a high of 54 and low of 39 degrees.
• Wednesday: Low clouds may break, temps: high: 59, low: 51.
• Thursday: Windy; a shower in the a.m., with a high of 62 and low of 29 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Oklahoma QuikTrip sold $1M winning Powerball, lottery tickets: A look back (oklahoman.com) — A Shell station in Roland was the lucky spot for Don and Joyce Harvey, who claimed a $105.8 million Powerball jackpot back in 2007. The story revisits that huge local win while running through other big Oklahoma lottery payouts and explaining details of the current $1.1 billion Powerball drawing and how to play.
   

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📸 Around Roland

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday December 17

• PTO-Penguin Patch Christmas Store
  Panama , OK 74951

Friday December 19

• 🤼HS Girls @ Tahlequah Sequoyah Tournament
  Liberty Es Sallisaw, OK 74955
• Dave Laurence’s Christmas Show
  Akins Store & The Lower Feed Room , 467806 OK-101 , Sallisaw
  5:30 pm

Saturday December 20

• Winter Solstice Tours with Anna Vincent
  Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center , 18154 1st St , Spiro
  11:00 am

Saturday December 27

• Marcus Samuelsson
  Seven Ponies , 3400 Choctaw Rd , Pocola
  5:00 pm

Tuesday December 30

• Teen Dungeons and Dragons
  Stanley Tubbs Memorial Library , 101 E Cherokee Ave , Sallisaw
  4:00 pm

Wednesday December 31

• Poteau Rotary Club meets
  Eastern Oklahoma Medical Center , Eastern Oklahoma Medical Ctr , 105 S Wall St , Poteau
  12:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Oklahoma Staffing posted a job opening for Late Night Team Member in Roland. Apply here.
• H&R Block posted a job opening for Bookkeeper - Franchise Location in Roland. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Roland here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Poteau

• Stone Gardens: A hushed cemetery a few miles north of Van Buren is the final resting place of 1812 veteran Hiram Bourne (todayinfortsmith.com)

Tahlequah

• Second defendant takes guilty plea, admitting role in 2021 torture and murder of Fort Smith woman (nwaonline.com)
• Carl Albert State College receives $23 million gift from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott (rivervalleydemocratgazette.com)

Muskogee

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-- The Patch AM Team

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