Head out to wild horse and burro event in Idabel

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The Bureau of Land Management will hold a wild horse and burro event in Idabel, Okla., Aug. 28-29 at the Idabel Rodeo Arena. The two-day event, featuring 140 wild horses and burros, will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 28. Five saddle-trained wild horses will also be available for adoption. Adoptions will be held from noon-6 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 28, and from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Aug. 29. Animals are eligible for adoption. Inquire with BLM staff onsite for more information.
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Weather Update

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• Hurricanes expected to push rainfall into southeast Oklahoma We will see scattered showers and thunderstorms Wednesday and Thursday, I am thinking in the order of about 50%. Rain chances are expected to go back down to the slight category by the weekend and it will be getting hotter.
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New priest at Immaculate Conception Church

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Seventeen years ago, a high school student who was quietly discerning a call to the priesthood was invited to Hugo and spent the next few days at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, meeting the Glenmary mission priests in the area. He told his friends then that if he became a priest, he would like to return to the southeastern Oklahoma area one day to serve, God-willing.