LCJ newsletter for 7-11-2025

Friday's newsletter

Jul 11, 2025

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Daily Bible verse

But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

Amos 5:24

Blast from the past

Santa Claus visits Heavener for the 2015 Christmas parade in downtown Heavener.

Spiro man sentenced for meth distribution

MUSKOGEE – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Curtis Gene Atkins, 60, of Spiro was sentenced to 57 months in prison for two counts of Distribution of Methamphetamine.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the 12th/21st Judicial Drug Task Force out of Sebastian and Crawford Counties, Arkansas, and the Barling, Arkansas Police Department.

On Nov. 18, 2024, Atkins pleaded guilty to the charges. According to investigators, on April 4, 2024, and May 15, 2024, Atkins sold a total of 166.06 grams of methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

Ronald A. White, Chief U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing. Atkins will remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin Cornell represented the United States.

Submit your sports calendar

We are trying to finish up our sports calendar for fall sports for LeFlore County teams.

While we have all the football schedules for county schools, we do not have fast pitch softball or fall baseball schedules.

Please submit the schedules to news@heavener.news.

Clear skies, hot Friday

Heavener weather forecast for Friday is for another day with clear skies and hot temperatures for Heavener, LeFlore County and the area.

The high is forecast to be 95 degrees with a low of 75.

Sunrise was 6:14 a.m. Sunset is 8:34 p.m.

Thursday’s high was 93 with a low of 75. No rain was recorded, leaving the monthly total at 0.92 inches, below July’s average rainfall of 3.10 inches.

Average temperatures for July 11 are a high of 94 and low of 66. Records for the date were a high of 105 in 1980 and a low of 57 in 1975.

Last year on July 11, the high was 95 with a low of 70.

Heavener area calendar of events

Heavener area calendar of events for the next week. The calendar is a free service for our readers. If you are with a non-profit and want an event publicized, email news@heavener.news.

Friday

Celebration of life service for Marilyn Pledger

Celebration of life service for Carolyn Anderson

Funeral services for Buddy Ray Ridenour

Saturday

Graveside services for Deborah Jane Ford

Monday

LeFlore County commissioners meet 9 a.m.

School boards meet

Tuesday

Poteau Evening Lions Club meet 6 p.m. CASC

Wednesday

Poteau Rotary Club meets noon EOMC

Thursday

Poteau Kiwanis Club meets noon

Heavener VFW bingo 6:30 p.m. Highway 59 North

Heavener Utilities Authority and Council meet 6 p.m.

Today in history

Aaron Burr slays Alexander Hamilton in duel

On July 11, 1804, in one of the most famous duels in American history, Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shoots his long-time political antagonist Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, a leading Federalist and the chief architect of America’s political economy, died the following day. Alexander Hamilton,... read more

1970s

1978

Gas fire incinerates crowded campsite, killing hundreds

American Revolution

1782

British evacuate Savannah, Georgia

Arts & Entertainment

1960

“To Kill a Mockingbird” published

Black History

1905

Members of the Niagara Movement meet for the first time