OKLAHOMA CITY — A stretch of road on U.S. Highway 259 near the state line in McCurtain County has been slated as a future construction project under the Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s eight-year plan.

KEEP MOVING FORWARD! The annual Martin Luther King Day Parade and Peace Walk were held in Hugo Monday afternoon. The parade, themed “Stick to the Plan,” featured cars, motorcycles, ATVs, go-karts and participants on foot.

HUGO — An investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) into a shooting that resulted in the death 47-year-old B J. Youngblood has led to the arrest of 34-year-old Thomas “Tommy” Phillips M.

The Hugo Area Chamber of Commerce held its monthly board meeting on Thursday, Jan. 14. Board members and guests outlined their expectations for the Chamber during 2021.

• Choctaw Nation, OBI seek convalescent plasma donors; Chief, Assistant Chief lead effort to help Coronavirus patients DURANT — The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Blood Institute (OBI) are hosting a convalescent plasma drive in Durant to aid Oklahomans diagnosed with COVID-19.

• Application period is open The Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Foundation (OCF) is eager to distribute more than $25,000 in scholarships to students in 2021.

• Through the 2020 Specialty Crop Block Grant OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. —Now through March 1, the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry’s Farm to School program is accepting applications for school garden kits on behalf of the USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant.

Editor’s Note: After a handful of readers reached out to the Hugo News regarding notifications they had received relating to “personal property” assessments, we contacted the County Assessor’s Office and received the following explanation by Assessor Rhonda Cahill.

For Danielle Jamison, winter brings pain. The cooling temperatures wreak havoc on the 36-year-old South Carolina mother who was born with sickle cell disease, a life-threatening genetic disorder.

• Significant increase in cases due in part to lags in holiday testing, reporting OKLAHOMA CITY — State Commissioner of Health Dr. Lance Frye issued the following statement regarding the spike in COVID-19 case numbers: “Today the State Department of Health reported 6,487 new cases of COVID-19 and...