MARSHALL COUNTY –– Two brothers have passed away after a boating accident Saturday morning on Lake Texoma, between Wood Island and Sanders Island view area. According to reports from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Clifford Eugene Hines, 67 from Ponca City, Okla., was operating a 1999 Falcon Striper board when the vessel began to malfunction, turn sharp to the left and eject Hines and two other occupants: Devered (sic) Dee Hines, 80 from Cordell, Okla., and Eddie Wayne Hines, 62 from Duncan, Okla.

Choctaw County Ambulance Authority board members met July 8 and discussed a number of issues –– most pertaining to finances, new policies and vehicle-related matters. During the Operations and Finances portion of the meeting, Director Randy Springfield reported the CCAA had exhausted all of its funding from the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program.