• Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Special Rangers aid in investigation FORT WORTH –– Love County resident, Joshua Dale Parsons, was convicted and sentenced in Sept. on one count of Larceny of Domestic Animal (horse) and one count of Knowingly Concealing or Receiving Stolen Property.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Oklahoma State Director Kenneth Corn announced that USDA began accepting applications starting on Oct. 1 for grants to help agricultural producers and rural small businesses invest in renewable energy systems and make energy-efficiency improvements. USDA has made available $1 billion in grants under the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), with funding from President Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act, which has made historic levels of investment available to Oklahoma and is recognized as the best way to grow the economy from the middle out and bottom up.

OKLAHOMA CITY –– Could the state’s evaluation system for ranking the performance of public schools be improved? That was the topic of an interim study held Monday in the Senate Education Committee, requested by former educator, Sen. Jo Anna Dossett.

MUSKOGEE –– The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Zachary Carlton Ty Capps, age 28, of Idabel, Okla., pleaded guilty to charges in a superseding indictment related to the murder of an Idabel resident.

107 – Kyle Wayne Eastwood: Assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. 108 – Percy Wayne Dunklin: Possession of cell phone or electronic device in penal institution.

If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. James 1:5 NIV.

For any voter who has not yet registered, Friday, Oct. 20 is the last day to apply for voter registration in order to be eligible to vote in the Nov.

The annual Fall Festival hosted by the Hugo Area Chamber of Commerce will be held downtown on Oct. 31.

Life lessons I learned from my life as an East Texas pastor, as pastor of mission of Elder State Baptist Church in Kilgore, I learned that a $1 box of chocolates could change a person’s life. We were given $100 per month to the minster for the 95 trailers we had in the Elder Estate Trailer Park –– the church was in the middle, and we had trailers on all sides of the church –– what a mission field.

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