STUDENTS AT HUGO HIGH School and Middle School staged a walk-out last Thursday, in protest of an administrative decision to reassign the middle school Dean of Students, Chris Scott. The students marched to the Administration office, chanting “we want Chris” and carrying signs in support of their teacher.

Franccesca Dotsenko is the Valedictorian of Hugo High School’s Class of 2022. Her current weighted GPA is 4.08. She is a member of HHS Student Council, National Honor Society and she participated in Internship. She is Senior Class Vice President, Leo Club Vice President and Senior Editor of Yearbook. During high school, Franccesca enrolled in concurrent college courses through Murray State College, and she will begin her college career with enough credits to be considered a second-semester college student. After high school, she will attend the University of Oklahoma and pursue a degree in Speech-Language Pathology. Daughter of Judith Cavallini, and granddaughter of Judith Ramirez, Franccesca will be one of the first in her family to attend college. She is excited and looking forward to forging a new path for herself at OU and being a proud representative of Hugo, Okla.

THE HUGO AREA CHAMBER of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for new chamber member, Good Crops last Monday afternoon. The business, located on Broadway Street in downtown Hugo, has been open six months. Pictured: Chamber board members Lena Kopp, Valerie Powell and Jay Hinds pose with Good Crops owners Alexander Cornelison and Linda De La Garza, as well as Heather Morgan, Duane Morgan, Karen Morgan, Lisa Cornelison and John Cornelison.

Hugo students and community members expressed their disappointment at Hugo Public Schools over the past week after allegations of unfair treatment toward a longtime employee surfaced. The unrest started after Chris Scott, a Hugo alumnus who’s coached varsity girls basketball for Hugo for over a decade, made a cryptic post on Facebook Wednesday morning.

After defeating the Moss Pirates in a dramatic 1-0 extra-inning stealing of home plate, the Boswell Scorpions drew powerhouse Fort Cobb-Broxton in the first round of the State Playoffs in Oklahoma City Friday, suffering a 17-1 defeat.

No. 1 Oklahoma (48-1, 17-1 Big 12) defeated No.

SHAWNEE — After smashing the Caddo Bruins 7-0 and 11-0 in the Regional Tournament, the Rattan RAMS drew the Tushka Tigers in the first round of the State Class A baseball playoffs Friday in Shawnee, and battled them into the eighth inning before being edged 2-1.

Mom jeans may be back in style this season, but mom genes never go out of fashion, say experts at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. In addition to the half-and-half mix of each parent’s DNA in the nucleus of our cells, genetic material is found in mitochondria, the part of the cell responsible for producing energy.