Republican voters will go to the polls for the Aug. 25 primary run-off election between Jackson and Burns for the State Senate Seat #5, currently held by Joseph Silk. Democrats, Libertarians and Independent voters do not have candidates involved in the run-off election and have no reason to show up to the polling place.

OKLAHOMA CITY –– Across the United States, more than 63% of households have completed their U.S. Census forms.

• Come and meet Whimpy’s baby boy HUGO –– Endangered Ark Foundation will host its first ever baby shower honoring the newest addition to the EAF herd born on Aug. 2.

Shortly before noon last Wednesday, Aug. 12, Hugo Chief of Police John Mitchell confirmed two men perished early Wednesday morning, when they were working on a railroad car at Trinity RailCar in Hugo. Mitchell said a number of law enforcement, fire and EMT officers converged on the plant (Hugo PD, Hugo Fire Dept., Choctaw County EMS, Choctaw County Sheriff’s Dept., and Oklahoma Highway Patrol) Wednesday morning. “We got there as Trinity employees and Hugo Fire Department officers were removing the two men from one of the cars. It was about half-in and half-out of the building,” Chief Mitchell stated. Both were said to be unresponsive and were transported to Choctaw Memorial Hospital in Hugo and declared deceased.”

New accounts of patients who believe they’ve been reinfected after recovering from COVID-19 are popping up daily, leading to an unnerving question: Can we get Coronavirus twice? Unlikely, say experts at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, at least in the short term. “It seems more probable that people reexhibiting symptoms are simply still carrying thevirus, not getting reinfected –– that’s a critical distinction,” said OMRF President Stephen Prescott, M.D., a physician and medical researcher.