Hugo News Sports This weekend, Hugo is hosting its first varsity basketball festival in more than 20 years. “I’m excited about getting teams from all over the state to start coming back to Hugo,” Buffalo Coach Darnell Shanklin said.

OKLAHOMA CITY — In response to years of feral hogs causing extensive damage to property and agriculture in rural Oklahoma, Sen. Dusty Deevers, R-Elgin, has introduced SB478, the Free to Hunt Feral Hogs bill, designed to remove all required permits for hunting feral hogs and free Oklahomans to protect their land, crops, and livestock from their destructive impact.

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Leadership Oklahoma, a statewide leadership program in its 39th year, is now accepting applications for its 2025-2026 adult class. The organization accepts a class of 52 members each year.

Candidates for two summer internship programs at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation must apply in the next few weeks. Both programs are paid, eight-week biomedical research internships.

A new five-year National Institutes of Health grant will help an Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist study muscle loss. With the $1,017,000 grant, Jordan Fuqua, Ph.D., hopes to better understand the normal muscle loss that occurs with aging and the accelerated atrophy that follows hospitalization or prolonged bedrest in older people.

Sales Tax November 2024 November 2023 City Tax Rate Revenue Tax Rate Revenue Boswell 0.03 $22,033.81 0.03 $31,489.82 Fort Towson 0.035 $13,758.51 0.035 $12,943.77 Hugo 0.035 $337,885.87 0.035 $348,357.44 Sawyer 0.01 $4,595.86 0.01 $3,624.26 Soper 0.02 $1,446.30 0.02 $1,749.09 December 2024 December 2023 City Tax Rate Revenue Tax Rate Revenue Boswell 0.03 $22,033.75 0.03 $27,223.91 Fort Towson 0.035 $10,904.62 0.035 $11,715.59 Hugo 0.035 $436,522.47 0.035 356,723.69 Sawyer 0.01 $3,777.15 0.01 $4,465.63 Soper 0.02 $1,351.54 0.02 $1,513.07 Use Tax November 2024 November 2023 City Tax Rate Revenue Tax Rate Revenue Boswell 0.03 $3,802.24 0.03 $3,072.15 Fort Towson 0.035 $4,504.68 0.035 $1,629.34 Hugo 0.035 $44,509.60 0.035 $42,800.09 Sawyer 0.01 $1,701.49 0.01 $1,216.35 December 2024 December 2023 City Tax Rate Revenue Tax Rate Revenue Boswell 0.03 $4,560.71 0.03 $3,449.16 Fort Towson 0.035 $4,506.98 0.035 $4,218.00 Hugo 0.035 $35,152.20 0.035 $46,986.41 Sawyer 0.01 $1,773.70 0.01 $1,443.74.