High winds last week possibly contributed to the Hugo Lake Marina breaking lose from its cable anchors and floating into the boat slips. The Mesonet reported wind gusts as high as 39 mph on Friday. Contributed Photo

Once a U.S. Supreme Court ruling effectively declared much of eastern Oklahoma is composed of tribal reservations, tribal governments became responsible for prosecuting many crimes committed by Indians against Indians on those reservation lands.

BRYAN COUNTY –– The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) is investigating an in custody death at the Bryan County Jail. On March 19, 2022, the Bryan County Sheriff’s Office requested assistance from the OSBI after an inmate was found unresponsive in his cell.

Hugo 2.34 Antlers 1.38 Pine Creek Lake 1.87 Idabel 2.34 Broken Bow 2.13 Cloudy 1.55 Clayton 2.26 Talihina 1.08.

WASHINGTON –– Advancements in medicine are making life better and longer for senior citizens. Vaccines “Over the past two decades, widespread interest in RNA-based technologies [Ribonucleic acid] for developing prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines has increased.

For a limited time, the American Red Cross has resumed testing all blood, platelet and plasma donations for COVID-19 antibodies. Plasma from routine donations that have high levels of COVID-19 antibodies may be used as convalescent plasma to help meet the needs of COVID-19 patients with weakened immune systems.

Veterans interested in farming and ranching now have a stronger support system in Oklahoma. The Farmer Veteran Coalition of Oklahoma, Inc. was formed as an official chapter of the Farmer Veteran Coalition (FVC) through a joint effort between the Oklahoma Department of Veteran Affairs and the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry as well as private citizens.

Through the Agricultural Conservation Easements Program’s Agricultural Land Easements (ACEP-ALE) component, NRCS provides financial assistance to eligible partners for purchasing Agricultural Land Easements that protect the agricultural use and conservation values of eligible land. In the case of working farms, the program helps farmers and ranchers keep their land in agriculture. The program also protects grazing uses and related conservation values by conserving grassland, including rangeland, pastureland and shrubland. Eligible partners include American Indian tribes, state and local governments and non-governmental organizations that have farmland, rangeland, or grassland protection programs.

On to Jerusalem 1 After we had torn ourselves away from them, we put out to sea and sailed straight to Kos. The next day we went to Rhodes and from there to Patara.

1 When Jeremiah had finished telling the people all the words of the Lord their God—everything the Lord had sent him to tell them— 2 Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to settle there.’ 3 But Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Babylonians, a so they may kill us or carry us into exile to Babylon.”