to point Publisher More kudos to Choctaw County’s former State Senator George Burns, as the Oklahoma Senate has approved legislation that would return Hugo Lake Park to the Oklahoma state park system. Burns has steadfastly supported this move as our State Senator, even as we have gotten the “cold shoulder” from the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and its board members.

The retired Attorney from Frogville, Okla., is back with what’s sure to have readers leaping for stores to pick up “Quest for a Queen,” the third installment of the Frogville series, which was released March 20, World Frog Day.

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BOSWELL — The Boswell Scorpions recently booked three wins in four games with victories coming over Rock Creek (11-2), Kremlin Hillsdale (6-0), Mulhall Orlando Panthers (9-3) and a loss versus Pleasantvale (5-1).

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Chad Caldwell, R-Enid, praised Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s stance ensuring fair treatment of both public and private school athletic teams.

“Mr. Speaker, I could not stand for a more important topic today and it is what I believe is one of the greatest threats facing our country: our $31.5 trillion national debt.

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Margaret Ann Knox Chafin breathed her last breath on Sunday morning, March 26, 2023, at the age of 93, just three years and three days after her husband, Billy Chafin passed to a much better life. Born Margaret Ann Knox to Robert Peter (Pete) Knox and Mary Ethel Patton Knox in the early hours of June 12, 1929, just a short time before the world entered the great depression in November of that year.

Contributing Writer The Hugo Public School Board terminated assistant varsity boys basketball coach Demontre Akins after a nearly three-hour due process hearing last week. The firing resulted from an altercation between Akins and two high school students after a basketball game in February, which was caught on camera and witnessed by multiple students and school officials.

Funeral services for Ju Nell Watkins, of Beaver, Okla., were held at 2 p.m. Friday, March 25, 2023 at Miller & Miller Funeral Home.