Choctaw County Democrats will hold their monthly meeting at the Choctaw County Library (large conference room) on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 5:30 p.m.

The Fort Towson Historic Site will host a hominy-making workshop with David Fowler on Saturday, Sept. 13, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Fowler is a regional director in the Museums and Historic Sites Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society.

On the 35-acre grounds where in 1832, education, life skills and culture were taught to young Choctaws, a popular annual event will return. The third annual Wheelock Academy Historic Site Arts & Crafts Fair will showcase southeast Oklahoma artisans and offers a beautiful day-trip drive for the whole family.

Only voters who live in the Rattan School District will be eligible to vote in the Oct. 14 Rattan School Bond Election where they will decide the fate of the $600,000 bond program submitted by the school board.

Living to Please God 1 As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more.

18 He answered, “We are on our way from Bethlehem in Judah to a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim where I live. I have been to Bethlehem in Judah and now I am going to the house of the Lord. a No one has taken me in for the night. 19 We have both straw and fodder for our donkeys and bread and wine for ourselves your servants—me, the woman and the young man with us. We don’t need anything.”

Chief Gary Batton relays several success stories of the past year for the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma in his annual State of the Nation address which debuted recently. Highlights in the video include: • 60 independent elder homes were completed.

CHOCTAW COUNTY –– The Oklahoma Highway Patrol are investigating after a vehicle caught fire Monday on U.S. Hwy.

It happened at the Choctaw County Fair...

HUGO –– With Councilman Josh Armes absent, the remaining members of the Hugo City Council voted last week to amend a section of the city’s employee policy and procedure handbook. The amendment sets new operating hours for City Hall, which will now be open from 8 a.m.