The Hugo Buffalo Homecoming will be held Friday, with the coronation ceremony at 6:30 p.m. A Homecoming Parade will be held at 4:30 p.m.

HUGO –– Members of the Hugo city council met in regular session last Tuesday to tackle a full agenda. With Mayor Ernest McCarty absent, Vice-Mayor Darren Frazier conducted the meeting.

MUSKOGEE –– The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Chase Lane Rocha, age 21, of Boswell, Okla., was found guilty by a federal jury of one count of involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country. The jury trial began with testimony on Oct. 2, 2023, and concluded on Oct. 4, 2023, with the guilty verdict.

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is announcing Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, as the first batching date for applications submitted for Fiscal Year 2024 funding through either the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) or Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).

Small nonfarm businesses in eight Oklahoma counties as well as neighboring counties in Arkansas and Texas are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Director Jeffrey Lusk of SBA’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West. These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in the following primary counties that began Sept. 19.

I’m Alan Simpson, a retired teacher and coach of 42 years –– and I am Choctaw. I read a lot of Native American history, most of which is unequivocally, painful. At this time I want to share my perspectives on Indian Boarding Schools of the 1800s and early 1900s –– a story of Native American children and their “voices crying in the wilderness.”

The meeting for the Hugo District with Superintendent Michael Frazier and District Missionary Bobbie Akins will be Oct. 11-13, at 7 p.m.

The Iris Garden Club of Hugo met Sept. 25 at the home of Harolynn Wofford.

Felony 105 – Korrie A. Torres: Use of vehicle in discharge of weapon.

FORT TOWSON –– On Saturday, Oct. 14, from 1-3 p.m., Charles R. Lemons will present at the Fort Towson Historic Site. He will be discussing mid-19thcentury weapons and uniforms. Lemons is the retired curator of the Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor in Fort Knox, Ky. He is the author of 30 books on subjects like U.S. Army World War II uniforms and the American Civil War.