Friday, May 26 Hamburger / Cheeseburger Lettuce Tomatoes Pickles Chips Peanut Butter Cookies Wednesday, May 31 Chicken Enchiladas Red Beans Rice Rolls Banana Pudding.

047 – Paige Nichole Shults: Child neglect. 048 – Tiffany Dawn Fritz Hicks: Falsely personate another to create liability.

Fort Towson School Southeastern Curriculum Contest results: • Destiny Chumley: Integrated Productivity Software, third place. • Kyra Johns: English III, third place; World History, fourth place.

The Choctaw County Land Judging contest was April 26. In the contest, members have to tell what type of soil the land is, the depth of the soil, slope of the land, erosion, permeability of the soil, surface runoff, give recommended land treatments in vegetable, mechanical, fertilizer and soil amendments. The 4-H members had four fields to judge.

CHOCTAW COUNTY –– An Antlers, Okla., man was injured in an auto accident early Monday morning approximately seven miles from Hugo in Choctaw County. According to reports from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Edwin R.

gathered in Idabel for the annual Tri-County Bar Association Law Day meeting and banquet. The Association consists of McCurtain County, Pushmataha County and Choctaw County attorneys. These three counties comprise the Oklahoma 17th Judicial District and the Oklahoma 17th District Attorney District. Several State dignitaries joined local attorneys, including Oklahoma Supreme Court Vice-Chief Justice Dustin Rowe, Oklahoma Bar Association (OBA) President Brian Hermanson and most of the OBA Board of Governors. Attorneys and retired judges John A. Benson (McCurtain County), John DeWitt (McCurtain County) and Hack Welch (Choctaw County) were all recognized for 50 years as members of the OBA. Retired attorney Carl LeForce was recognized for having been licensed to practice law 60 years ago in 1963. Pictured are (l-r) Choctaw County Associate District Judge Bill Baze, District Judge Emily Maxwell, McCurtain County Associate District Judge Timothy Ragland, Benson, Hermanson, McCurtain County Bar Association President Don Shaw, Rowe, and LeForce (seated).

A ground breaking ceremony was recently held at the Tribal Complex in Hugo. The 51,000-square-foot expansion will increase housing, education, Indian Child Welfare and vocational rehabilitation services in Hugo and the surrounding areas.

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Recognizing a stroke Stroke victims may suffer brain damage when people fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke. Doctors say any bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions: • Ask the person to smile.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation $2.6 million to unravel how mutations in a single gene connect to skin health. With the five-year grant, OMRF scientist Lorin Olson, Ph.D., will continue his research on a protein signal called platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), which plays a key role in the body’s ability to repair wounds.