CHOCTAW COUNTY COALITION Drug Free Communities Support Program, Youth Services of Choctaw, Pushmataha and McCurtain Counties and the City of Hugo joined communities across the nation in celebrating Red Ribbon Week, Oct. 23-31, 2020. Red Ribbon Week is the nation’s oldest and largest drug prevention awareness program. The 2020 Campaign theme was “Be Happy. Be Brave. Be Drug Free.” Pictured left to right are Mehlenie Adamson, Councilman Gaylon Ridenour, Janitra Bostic, YouCo member Amya Savage, Kinsey Cox, Mayor Richard Higginbotham, Brandy Krohn, Councilman BJ Lemmons, and Councilman Bart Tedder as the mayor signs the Red Ribbon Week Proclamation.

Funeral services for Howard Lynn Dicken, of were held at 11 a.m. Oct.

Funeral services for Gerald Dane “Bo” Dickson were held at 2 p.m. Oct.

Barbara “Milner” Grant passed away unexpectedly on Friday, Oct. 30, 2020 after a brief illness. She was born on Oct. 11, 1942 in Greenville, Miss., to the late James Elmer and Lucy Bluebell (Milner) Barnett then returned home to Swink, Okla.

Milton Harold Snow passed from this life at his home in Hall Community on Oct. 21, 2020.

Graveside services for Willard Brian Ingram were held at 2 p.m. Nov.

And the winner is... Well, it will be interesting when American citizens and the world can fill in the blank to that very important statement, in the aftermath of one of the most contentious presidential elections in both American and world history.