HUGO –– Members of the Hugo city council voted unanimously last Tuesday to begin implementing digital tickets through the Hugo Police Department. The program will streamline and modernize the process of issuing tickets for city law enforcement.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Registration is now open for the 2024 AgHERculture Conference. The AgHERculture Conference provides women interested in the agriculture industry an opportunity to hone their professional development and add to their social network.

• Ruling calls for environmental reviews, prior public notice Oklahoma Ecology Project A Delaware County District Court Judge has ruled that the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry irresponsibly allowed large poultry farms to be built in a sensitive watershed without proper environmental review or advance public notice. Tulsa-based Indian Environmental Law Group representing Spring Creek Coalition, a group of landowners along one of the state’s last “pristine” category Ozark streams, sued the agency over those very points after it allowed several “megafarms” to be built within the watershed starting in 2018.

By Andy and Renie Bowman Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn. com Ever been looked squarely in the eyes and bluntly told you are a bitter, angry person? Probably not. After all, who in their right mind wants to be within 12 feet of a bear and throw heavy stones at that huge, furious mass of muscle and bone?

DURANT –– The successful collaboration of art and history between two nations, France and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma has led to the creation of the new exhibit “Okhvta Chito Okhoatali: Choctaw and French Transatlantic Legacies.” It premiered at the Choctaw Cultural Center on Saturday, July 6.

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Hugo’s city-wide summer clean up will be July 12-13. All items must be taken to the landfill on S. Eighth St. across the bypass. Curbside pickup available for the very elderly and handicapped by calling 580.326.2344 or 580.326.9598 by 12 p.m. July 11.

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The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma celebrates five graduates from the Family Medicine Residency Program this summer. Doctors Henry Gutierrez, Zachary Cruse, Shanell Gray, Patrick McIntosh, and Daniel Stacy finish their threeyear residency with Choctaw Nation and four are remaining on as a physician with Choctaw Nation Health Services.

Atonement for an Unsolved Murder 1 If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who the killer was, 2 your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns. 3 Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke 4 and lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer’s neck. 5 The Levitical priests shall step forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord and to decide all cases of dispute and assault. 6 Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley, 7 and they shall declare: “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done. 8 Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, Lord, and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent person.” Then the bloodshed will be atoned for, 9 and you will have purged from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the Lord.