Calendar of Events...
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JOHNSON O’MALLEY meeting will be held at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug.
Weather Update
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Looks like there’s going to be nothing but sunshine and very hot temperatures across southeast Oklahoma for the week ahead. The afternoons will be sunny with high temperatures 95 to 100 degrees and heat index near 105. At night you can expect clear skies with low temperatures dropping to near 74 degrees. Temperatures are expected to continue above normal through Sept. 6.
Former Hugoan named to Hall of Fame
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• Marsha Akins-Jordan to be inducted to Oklahoma African American Educators Hall of Fame Mrs. Marsha Akins Jordan will be one of the 10 inductees to the Oklahoma African American Educators Hall of Fame, Inc.
A very generous donation...
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THE CITY OF HUGO was the recent recipient of a very generous gift. A donation in the amount of $87,611.37 from the estate of the late Ray and Annette Smith, of Fort Towson, Okla.., was gifted to Hugo’s Mt. Olivet Cemetery. According to their granddaughter Jill Fitch, Annette chose to make the donation to the cemetery as it is Ray’s final resting place.
COVID-19 weekly briefing recap from OSDH
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OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma State Department of Health held a media briefing Aug. 19, to provide updates on the state’s response to COVID-19.
Choctaw Nation releases ARPA funding plan
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Tribal members with the greatest needs were strongly considered as the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) announced the initial plan of distribution of funding via the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) last week. The allocation of funds was developed after also receiving guidance from the U.S. Treasury on acceptable distributions for the COVID-19 relief program.
John 11
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The Death of Lazarus 1 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
Psalm 120
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A song of ascents. 1 I call on the Lord in my distress, and he answers me.
Jeremiah 13
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A Linen Belt 1 This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.” 2 So I bought a belt, as the Lord directed, and put it around my waist. 3 Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time: 4 “Take the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist, and go now to Perath a and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.” 5 So I went and hid it at Perath, as the Lord told me.
Commissioner of Health shares COVID-19 update video
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Commissioner of Health Dr. Lance Frye shared a video recently updating Oklahomans on the state’s COVID-19 mitigation efforts as cases continue to rise.
