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.

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.

BOBBY YANDELL, of Hugo, was this week’s winner of the Hugo News Football Contest after choosing 11 out of 13 games correctly. Pictured, Yandell collects the $50 weekly prize from Ernie Taylor of R.E. McGuire/Ernie Taylor Insurance, where he obtained his winning entry blank.

McCURTAIN COUNTY –– A Texas man has drowned Friday afternoon on Mt. Fork River, just 100 yards south of U.S.

City of Hugo Code Enforcement Officer Teshumbe Bills wants to remind local business owners, who have not yet renewed their business licenses, the due date was July 1. Anyone who did not pay by the end of July began accruing late fees in the amount of $10 per month in addition to the $75 renewal fee.

DURANT –– Flu immunization is more important than ever this year with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority (CNHSA) has set up dates and locations across Southeastern Oklahoma to provide vaccines at no cost to the public.