A job fair will be held from 12 to 6 p.m. Feb.

A beautiful weather pattern across southeastern Oklahoma is predicted for the next seven days with sunshine and dry weather and high temperatures mostly in the 60s. It sure beats last week’s Arctic air and ice! Only around 40 days until spring and I am

Friday, Feb. 11 Meatloaf Augratin Potatoes Fried Okra Rolls Sugar Cookies Wednesday, Feb.

Felony 006 – Christopher Wayne Wall: Actual physical control of vehicle under the influence. 007 – Marcus Shaquille Lindsey: Possession of firearm after former felony conviction.

Hugo Police, assisted by Choctaw County Sheriff’s Office, arrested several people on various drug complaints early Monday morning, after a traffic stop at Eighth St. and Duke St. Evidence collected included guns, drugs and alcohol. Another traffic stop last week at Second and Jackson St., also ended with the seizure of multiple guns and drugs. Contributed Photo

OKLAHOMA CITY –– House Speaker Charles McCall, R-Atoka, on Monday recognized World War II veteran Claude Albert Savage, of Finley, Okla., as the Veteran of the Week in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

HUGO –– Hugo city council is still searching for someone motivated to fill the current opening of the Ward 4 council member position. Any interested party residing in 4th Ward should call city hall, 580.326.5616, or contact Ernest McCarty, Darren Frazier, Juanita Latimore or Josh Armes.

CHOCTAW COUNTY –– The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) is investigating the death of a Hugo man last week in a rural area near Sawyer, Okla. Just before midnight, a 911 call was received

CHOCTAW COUNTY –– Law enforcement is investigating a Friday night shooting that occurred in Sawyer, Oklahoma., leaving one man hospitalized. According to Choctaw County Sheriff Terry Park, the Sheriff’s Office, along with Choctaw Tribal Police responded to a call on Copperhead Road in Sawyer where a man had been shot in the face.

Perhaps CEC’s best-known and most anticipated youth program, Youth Tour, is a week-long, all-expenses-paid educational trip to Washington, D.C., in June of each year. CEC annually sponsors three delegates –– all juniors –– from high schools within its service territory on Youth Tour. Students travel with the Oklahoma delegation (70+ students) to our nation’s capitol where they tour historic sites and national landmarks, meet Oklahoma’s congressional delegation, and more. Youth Tour has earned a reputation as “a trip of a lifetime” by former participants. Youth Tour will be June 17-23, 2022.