• Cavanal Services owner Carl Brown of Poteau wins Chahtapreneur of the Year On June 9, Choctaw Nation’s Small Business Development Department held their annual Chahtapreneur Award Ceremony at Choctaw Casino & Resort – Durant, where they revealed its Chahtapreneur Award winners. Each year, one Choctaw-owned small business from each district is recognized, and one of those exceptional businesses wins the highest honor, Chahtapreneur of the Year award.

Funeral services for Cash Weiland Hamill, of Hugo, Okla., were held at 2 p.m. Thursday, July 7, 2022 at Miller & Miller Funeral Home Chapel.

Funeral services for Linda Smith, of Valliant, Okla., were held at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 9, 2022 at Valliant Church of God.

Summertimes are usually somewhat laid back here in Southeast Oklahoma, except perhaps for the dozen hay crews working feverishly to roll up thousands of bales of hay. Early spring rains helped make a first-cutting of hay better than average, but the past three weeks of brutal heat are taking their toll on regional pastures.

We have absolutely no relief in sight from this amazing heat wave with the temperatures hitting 98 to 102 every day from the 14th to the 25th of July. This week’s full moon is called the Buck Moon. Male deer, which shed their antlers every year, begin to regrow them in July, hence the Native American name for July’s full moon.