A beautiful weather pattern across southeastern Oklahoma is predicted for the next seven days with sunshine and dry weather and high temperatures mostly in the 60s. It sure beats last week’s Arctic air and ice! Only around 40 days until spring and I am

Hugo Police, assisted by Choctaw County Sheriff’s Office, arrested several people on various drug complaints early Monday morning, after a traffic stop at Eighth St. and Duke St. Evidence collected included guns, drugs and alcohol. Another traffic stop last week at Second and Jackson St., also ended with the seizure of multiple guns and drugs. Contributed Photo

OKLAHOMA CITY –– House Speaker Charles McCall, R-Atoka, on Monday recognized World War II veteran Claude Albert Savage, of Finley, Okla., as the Veteran of the Week in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

Perhaps CEC’s best-known and most anticipated youth program, Youth Tour, is a week-long, all-expenses-paid educational trip to Washington, D.C., in June of each year. CEC annually sponsors three delegates –– all juniors –– from high schools within its service territory on Youth Tour. Students travel with the Oklahoma delegation (70+ students) to our nation’s capitol where they tour historic sites and national landmarks, meet Oklahoma’s congressional delegation, and more. Youth Tour has earned a reputation as “a trip of a lifetime” by former participants. Youth Tour will be June 17-23, 2022.