The DailyMail is reporting that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced that he will pay unvaccinated police officers from other states $5,000 if they relocate to the Sunshine State to work, as cops across the U.S. continue to leave their posts in droves over COVID vaccine mandates.

More than 50 federal employees from across the U.S. government have banded together to sue the Biden administration over coronavirus vaccine mandates, according to court documents.

We know it to be true, yet we continue to support it. It continues to threaten the “liberty and justice for all” that our founding fathers yearned for.

A grant writing seminar will be held in Hugo from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Oklahomans for Responsible Water Policy will have its annual meeting at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29 at Donald W. Reynolds Public Library in Durant, featuring the Choctaw Natural Resources Teams: Tye baker and Ethan Schuth, Sec. of Energy & Environment Ken Wagner, emcee Sen. David Bullard and Choctaw...

EARTHQUAKE DRILL — Hugo School students recently participated in a national Earthquake Drill to learn how to respond to such an event. Above, students in Mrs. Pipkin’s fourth-grade class, Ke’Ambria Robertson, Grady Awtry, and Kaidence Cook are shown following their teacher’s drill instructions.

THE 2021 HUGO BUFFALOES include: Landon Lemmons, Ashton Barnett, Stacey Powers, Aden Parish, Cameron Hamill, Hunter Sims, Amareion Maytubby, La’Marcus Davis, Cam Holt, Davionta Jackson, Caselin Davis, Dakerrious Wilson, Don’tez Cherry, Ethan Sparks, Da’shon Sims, Dacorion Cook, De’Koryian Mitchell,...

Funeral services for Terry Tims, of Hugo, Okla., were held at 11 a.m. Oct.

Wayne (Sarge) Engelking, of Fort Towson, Okla., passed away on Oct. 17, 2021 in the VA Hospital in Bonham, Texas.

Celebration of Life services for Shirley Sue Crenshaw will be held Monday, Nov. 1, 2021 at Oak Grove Baptist Church in Hugo, Okla., with Kyle Cummings officiating. Burial will follow at the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Hugo.