The concert schedule for the 2024 Choctaw Labor Day Festival has changed. CMAAward-winner Mark Chesnutt, initially announced as a performer, was sidelined last month when he required emergency surgery. The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma wishes him a complete and speedy recovery.

Registration is open now for the 43rd annual Oklahoma Waterfowl Stamp Design Competition. The winning artwork will become the design for the 2025-26 Oklahoma Waterfowl Stamp, which is sold to state waterfowl hunters and stamp collectors nationwide.

The Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association (OCA) is announcing the renewal period for current registered cattle and horse brands in Oklahoma will begin on Oct. 1. Beginning Oct. 1, current registered brand holders can renew online by going to www.okcattlemen. org/brands.

HOCHATOWN –– Head to Choctaw Landing this month to enjoy free live music at Cypress Lawn! The amphitheater on Cypress Lawn is the perfect spot for family fun, just steps away from a small playground, two food containers and a self-serve beer wall. All performances will be held from 8:30-11:30 p.m.

Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness. The guest speaker last week during the Hugo Lions Club meeting was Krystopher Gross, head football coach for Hugo.

The Johnson O’Malley committee will host its first meeting of the school year at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug.

Just as most Southeast Oklahoma residents look forward to coming outside in the spring and shaking free of the closedup feelings of winter, so to do they look forward to the first coming of the cool night breezes that signal the oncoming fall season.

Jerusalem’s Enemies to Be Destroyed 1 A prophecy: The word of the Lord concerning Israel.

PATRIARCHAL (Genesis 1 - Exodus 20) from Creation to Moses There was no specific day of worship, no specific priesthood, no specific place of worship; there were animal sacrifices and no written law.

TALIHINA — Faced with the prospect that their land could be taken away from them by an out-of-state corporation wanting to use Kiamichi River water to make electricity to be exported to Texas, area property owners did not mince words Thursday about their strong opposition to a proposed closed-loop,...