Sample ballots are now available for the Sept. 14 Hugo and Valliant School bond special election. Voters can download a sample ballot using the State Election Board’s OK Voter Portal at oklahoma.gov/elections/ovp or pickup a copy at the Choctaw County Election Board during normal business hours.
• Make plans now to attend Aug. 31 ‘Summer Cover Crops to Support Winter Wheat,’ in Garfield County” The previous steps taken in conservation practices were successful.
Hot weather is more likely to cause health problems in older adults than in younger ones. About 200 Americans die of health problems caused by high heat and humidity every year. And most of them are 50 or older.
Looks like there’s going to be nothing but sunshine and very hot temperatures across southeast Oklahoma for the week ahead. The afternoons will be sunny with high temperatures 95 to 100 degrees and heat index near 105.
• Marsha Akins-Jordan to be inducted to Oklahoma African American Educators Hall of Fame Mrs. Marsha Akins Jordan will be one of the 10 inductees to the Oklahoma African American Educators Hall of Fame, Inc.
THE CITY OF HUGO was the recent recipient of a very generous gift. A donation in the amount of $87,611.37 from the estate of the late Ray and Annette Smith, of Fort Towson, Okla.., was gifted to Hugo’s Mt. Olivet Cemetery.