This summer, Hugo FFA member Jaleigh Loper packed her bags and headed to Warner, Okla., for McPeak’s Be a Champ Cattle Camp. She has been around cattle her whole life, but nothing could’ve prepared her for what that week had in store.

In just a few short days, Americans across the country will gather beneath fireworks-filled skies, wave flags in hometown parades, and celebrate the birth of a nation that began with an extraordinary act of courage nearly two-and-a-half centuries ago.

CHOCTAW COUNTY –– Two Boswell residents have been arrested and charged following a child sexual abuse investigation involving allegations of sexual abuse, domestic violence, drug activity and child neglect.

With this being the 250th Anniversary of the United States, the Little River Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Fort Towson Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary would like to remind you of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, which states: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Andrea Dawn Cooper, age 34, of Sawyer, Okla., entered a guilty plea to one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

HUGO –– The Hugo board of education, in a special meeting Monday afternoon, voted to approve a settlement agreement with respect to a lawsuit involving five students, which alleged abuse by a former employee of the district.

Ninety years of celebrating Boswell