Hugo 8th corrals Bearcats, 49-7

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HUGO — Hugo’s eighth-grade Buffaloes extended their unbeaten streak Monday evening with a sound 49-7 licking of the Antlers Bearcats. Coach Tanner Trent’s Buffaloes leaped out front in the first with a 9-4 advantage, and then turned up the heat on both ends of the court, booking 12 points and giving up zero, taking a sound 21-4 lead at half.
JAYKA SANTILLAN takes a pass inside the paint and makes a move on the goal against the Antlers seventh-grade Bearcats Monday in Hugo. Putting defensive pressure on Santillan is Antlers’ Max Duncan, Kobe Tabor and Blake Skaggs. Antlers won the game 25-16 with Duncan booking three points and Skaggs 2. Hugo News Photo / Stan Stamper

Small changes can build healthy habits in the new year

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• Free resources and tools available from Shape Your Future This New Year, Shape Your Future, a program of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET), encourages Oklahomans to build healthy habits through small changes in everyday routines. Instead of setting resolutions without a plan to achieve them, create and maintain healthy lifestyles by changing one habit at a time.

OMRF crew tries experiment in rock

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For some Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation employees, clocking out means it’s time to tune-up. After months of joking about their shared musical interests, OMRF scientists Jakub Bunk, Jacob Brown, Ph.D., and Joe Woodward decided to get serious about their extracurricular jam sessions.

Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease can be diagnosed at earlier stage

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As diagnostic procedures become more sophisticated and the public’s awareness grows, more individuals will be accurately diagnosed at a younger age and an earlier stage of the disease. Alzheimer’s disease is considered to be early in its onset, or starting point, if an individual is age 65 or younger when symptoms first appear.

Law doubles funding for state abandoned mine land reclamation program

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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), signed last month by the President, provides Oklahoma the opportunity to nearly double the annual amount of funding to reclaim abandoned coal mine land. This bill also fulfills the primary legislative goal of the Interstate Mining Compact Commission (IMCC) and National Association of Abandoned Mine Land Programs (NAAMLP) over the past few years in seeking reauthorization of coal abandoned mine land (AML) fee collection from industry at 80% of current rates for 13 years.
Law doubles funding for state abandoned mine land reclamation program

Public Records

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Misdemeanor 170 – Mat Edward Rosson: Trespass after being forbidden. 171 – Larry Wayne Chumley: Protective order violation.

Weather Update

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No significant precipitation is expected for southeast Oklahoma this week, but we will see some wide swings in the temperature. I expect us to go from 18 degrees Friday morning to 63 degrees by Saturday afternoon.
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