26 Hugo Lake invites everyone to come join in a clean-up day around the river and lake. Participants are welcome to help out in their favorite park, camping area or fishing hole. At the Overlook, there will be a Trash Bag Trade-In with prizes for your clean up efforts. This will be held from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26. For more information, contact Sarah Whorton at 580.326.3345.

Boswell Public Schools recently received new playground equipment. The equipment is part of a grant. The children absolutely love it! The students burst through the doors and run full blast right to it. When you look out to watch, you can’t help but smile. It looks like ants crawling all over a candy apple.

After a rainy start to the week, things should start improving on Wednesday and from Thursday through Saturday, we are looking great with sunshine and warmer temperatures. Your weekend is looking great with sunny skies and low 80s on Saturday and only a slight chance of a shower and partly sunny and warm Sunday.

Officials with the Oklahoma State Election Board cautioned voters about a mailing from a Tulsa based organization, “OKVOTE,” after state and county election offices received several complaints from voters this week.

DURANT –– Due to the ongoing safety concerns surrounding COVID-19, Southeastern Oklahoma State University has made the decision to not hold traditional homecoming activities on October 23-24. “This was a very difficult decision, but the health and safety of our campus community, alumni, and visitors was the top priority,’’ said Southeastern president Thomas Newsom.

Senior citizens today are being diagnosed with skin cancer at a higher rate. The risk of developing skin cancer is greater if you’re fair skinned and burn easily.

A rabies-infected bat was discovered this week in the area around Bell Cow Lake, located within the Chandler city limits in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. This is the second rabiespositive bat found in the area in the past 6 weeks.

The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation will offer a virtual estate planning seminar for attorneys, CPAs, certified financial planners and trust officers from 1-5 p.m. on Oct.

DURANT –– Census workers across Oklahoma will be going door to door until the end of September, making sure that as many residents as possible get counted in the 2020 U.S. Census.

IDABEL — Eighty years of making good on a dream of bringing electrical service to rural Southeast Oklahoma will be celebrated Saturday, Sept. 26, at 10 a.m. in Idabel, as Choctaw Electric Cooperative holds its annual meeting for 2020.