Rattan Rams bring home State Class A Baseball Title!

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EDMOND — From the Oklahoma prairie to the hills of Southeast Oklahoma, the Rattan Rams are known to be a perrennial Class A baseball powerhouse. This year’s team of baseball die-hards, coached since they were yound lads by Michael Clay, had more on their mind than to just show up and compete in the State baseball playoffs.
The RATTAN RAMS brought home the 2023 Oklahoma Class A State Baseball Tournament Championship Trophy this past weekend beating two outstanding teams in the State Tournament in Edmond, Okla. Members of the team are named below. Photo Courtesy Candie Smith

Holman transfers to Univ. of Ark./Little Rock

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Hugo News Sports Jordan Holman, a 2021 graduate of Hugo High School, is transferring from Northern Oklahoma College to play basketball at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Holman signed her national letter of intent last week, solidifying her move after putting in two strong seasons at Northern Oklahoma.
Holman transfers to Univ. of Ark./Little Rock

SE Okla. Fishing Report

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Broken Bow: Elevation is three feet above normal and rising, water temperature 68°F and clear. Largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted bass good on buzz baits, plastic baits, and spinnerbaits around channels, flats, points, shallows, shorelines, and weed beds. Crappie fair on hair jigs, jigs, and minnows around brush structure, coves, flats, points, rocks, shallows, shorelines, and weed beds. Report submitted by Dru Polk, game warden stationed in McCurtain County.

HUGO BUFFALO MEKKI BELL

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recently competed in the Oklahoma State Track Tournament and medaled in the Shot Put competition. Above he is pictured with the other Shot Put winners in Class 3A..
HUGO BUFFALO MEKKI BELL

‘Wrong place and time, but totally innocent, of course’

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Bowman Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn. com You and I hear them, the stories of people who insist they are totally innocent of any wrongdoing. Yet they are definitely identified as being at the scene of the crime, in the company of the criminals.
‘Wrong place and time, but totally innocent, of course’

Harolynn Wofford

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to Buck Billy. Normally the biggest bird brought in wins the gun, but nobody got a bird so a drawing won it for Buck..
Harolynn Wofford

SOSU announces local graduates

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DURANT –– Southeastern Oklahoma State University held two spring commencement ceremonies May 5-6. Below are the candidates for graduation, listed by permanent hometown.

The best Mother’s Day gift –– a son’s second chance at life

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May is a month full of family and fun, especially on the second weekend when families gather to celebrate moms. May has always been an important month for the Kloft family of Mt. Angel, Ore., –– there is lots of farming to be done, young livestock to be cared for, and their customers are ready for grilling season, which means that every Saturday the Klofts get up before dawn to get to the Beaverton Farmers Market to see customers and friends and sell their Lonely Lane Farms pasture-raised beef, pork, lamb, and goat, raised in Oregon’s Willamette River Valley. In May, they will also most definitely take time to celebrate Mother’s Day and the three-year anniversary of learning their son, John, needed a new kidney that would eventually come from his mom.
The best Mother’s Day gift –– a son’s second chance at life