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Upcoming events for Hugo High School: Football will travel to Beggs on Friday night, kickoff 7:30. Softball will play at home on Thursday, Aug. 31 vs. Soper. Start time is 5:30. Softball will travel to Haworth on Tuesday, Sept. 5. Start time is 5:30.

Bowman Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn. com Physical pain. It turns your life upside down while it lasts. Instead of concentrating on having fun or getting your job done, a person experiencing pain suddenly finds themself with a new goal. Getting rid of it –– now. Aspirin, painkillers, bedrest, anything –– you name it, we want it.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist Ray Rezaie, Ph.D., $1.7 million to continue his study of the intricate mechanisms that govern blood clotting and inflammation.

The Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority (CNHSA) Talihina Hospital is among the top 8% of the nation’s major healthcare programs, according to the recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) patient experience ratings. The ratings were just released with Talihina receiving five stars, the top rating.

• Fort Towson Historic Site to host come-and-go genealogy and research workshop FORT TOWSON –– The Fort Towson Historic Site will host a genealogy and research workshop on Saturday, Aug. 26, from 1-3 p.m.

• Purchasing receipt left in the bag CHOCTAW COUNTY –– A Boswell, Okla., man was arrested in early August after law enforcement was notified of a possible contraband drop at the Howard Mcleod Correction Center. According to official reports from ODOC resident agent in charge Keith Hawkins, Joe Clay Harris, 38, allegedly dropped a package containing 982 grams of dry tobacco, four lighters, five books of rolling paper and one receipt from the Choctaw Travel Plaza in Boswell.

MUSKOGEE –– The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jeffrey Lyn Pierce, age 74, of Hugo, Okla., was sentenced to 327 months in prison for one count of murder in the second degree in Indian Country.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Justin Humphrey, R-Lane, recently submitted to the governor a review of a House Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee Hearing held July 24, 2023.