HUGO –– Hugo council members approved several board appointments during a special meeting held last week. They include: • Frankie Hinton was appointed to the Choctaw Memorial Hospital board for the term of April 17, 2022 to April 17, 2025.

With new season dates and bag limits in place across Oklahoma, spring turkey season won’t be the same in 2022 as in recent years. Hunters planning to pursue any of the three subspecies of wild turkeys that can be found in Oklahoma are reminded of these new regulations:

CITY AND LAW OFFICIALS held a public meeting last Thursday to update citizens about current crime in Hugo. Approximately 20 people were in attendance to ask questions and give advice. Hugo Police Chief John Mitchell reminded the public about the city’s curfew.

• Safe Kids says more than half of car seats not used correctly Hugo’s smaller residents are now a little safer. A certified Safe Kids car seat installer was on hand March 10 to make sure car seats were installed correctly.

DURANT –– The Choctaw Nation Health Care Center (CNHCC) is revolutionizing the way it fights breast cancer.

The KEDDO Area Agency on Aging Ombudsman Program is looking for special people to visit and advocate for long-term care residents. Most residents just need a friendly face to listen and convey to them that someone cares.

The impacts of COVID-19 have been felt in every sector of the beef cattle industry and are expected to continue through 2020. Cow-calf producers will market weaned calves in spring 2020 from fall 2019 calf crops and in fall 2020 from spring 2020 calf crops.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Jim Grego, R-Wilburton, today won unanimous House passage of a bill that would expand the list of meats on the “Oklahoma Certified” list.

Moral Benefits of Wisdom 1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, 2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— 3 indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, 4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as...

Disaster Because of Idolatry 1 This word came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in Lower Egypt—in Migdol, Tahpanhes and Memphis—and in Upper Egypt: 2 “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You saw the great disaster I brought on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah.