U.S. Senators Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) reintroduced the bipartisan Indian Buffalo Man-age-ment Act, legislation that promotes Tribal capacity to own and manage buffalo on tribal lands.

Horticulture Educator Payne County The landscape doesn’t know it’s a busy holiday month. Don’t forget to take care of a few things to help your garden and trees through December.

Students completing the Electrical Lineman Training Program at Kiamichi Tech graduated on Thursday, Dec. 18. Kiamichi Tech administration, program instructors, industry partners, friends and families celebrated the graduates at the Hugo campus. The graduates of the program are: Blade Barrett, Chet Coffey, Roper Hesterlee, James Kellam, Kova Sadler, Draven Weaver, Dillon Williams, Brendon Wofford and Lake Wooten.

1 Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, a and of faith in God, 2 instruction about cleansing rites, b the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3 And God permitting, we will do so.

Wisdom 1 A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth. 2 It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart.

MCALESTER –– The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) marked the completion of its McAlester Health Clinic expansion with a ribbon cutting ceremony recently, highlighting a significant investment in access to high-quality, patient-centered care for Choctaw tribal members and the surrounding community.

We’ve all heard that “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” According to new research from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, apples have company when it comes to fruits that keep us healthy.

Oklahoma Watch Hochatown is a 240-person community that shares a ZIP code with a larger city, Broken Bow, which sits 10 miles to the south. But the conflation has become a problem for Hochatown beyond mail delivery errors.

HUGO — A new $160 million-dollar natural gas pipeline that will extend from the Bennington Natural Gas Hub 43 miles to Western Farmers Electric Cooperative’s Hugo powerplant, has been announced by One Gas, Inc., a natural gas distribution company. The new “large-diameter” pipeline is projected to move more than 100 billion cubic feet of natural gas annually to the current WFEC powerplant, which will open the door for the plant to generate an additional 400 mega- watts of electricity with five new gas-turbine generators.

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