OKLAHOMA CITY – Survivors should be aware that con artists and criminals may try to obtain money or steal personal information through fraud or identity theft after a disaster. In some cases, thieves try to apply for FEMA assistance using names, addresses and Social Security numbers they have stolen from survivors.

Bowman Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn. com Some of us are Planners. Meticulous and rather ridiculous methodical planners, we spend a lot of time laying out our life like a checkerboard square. We know what we will be doing today, this week, next month and exactly where we plan to be on our checkerboard by the end of the year. We have car insurance, home insurance, life insurance, loss of income insurance, and probably insurance for not having insurance.

• Communities invited to apply for free paint and supplies OKLAHOMA CITY –– Keep Oklahoma Beautiful (KOB) will open applications for its Paint Oklahoma Beautiful program June 1, 2024. This initiative supports community beautification projects by providing organizations with paint donated by HIS Paint and stipend checks for supplies.

Jamie Roth-Meredith, of Valliant, has been named to Southern New Hampshire University’s (SNHU) Winter 2024 President’s List. The winter terms run from January to May.

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Happy 44th Birthday to Jason Pruitt on June 1! On June 8, a community fun day will be held at Sawyer Community Center, with a light meal beginning at 5:30 p.m. and then at 6:30, they will begin yard darts, dominoes and possibly karaoke.

HUGO –– Kiamichi Tech honored students who recently completed their career training with a graduation ceremony on May 14 at the Hugo campus. The ceremony included congratulatory remarks from Shelley Free, Kiamichi Tech Superintendent, a presentation of certificates and a special recognition of Kiamichi Tech Distinguished Graduates.

Lawmakers quietly gave Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry a $50 million gift in last week’s budget agreement. Unlike most line items that were discussed and debated, one line attributed to the Tax Commission allocated $50 million that would pay one-fourth of the cost to retrofit old, methane-leaking wells to bring them up to current Environmental Protection Agency standards.

the point Yes, I was there 42 years ago at the Hugo Chamber of Commerce office joining LaCinda Stanfield and Leeta Henson (KIHN 1340) for a committee discussion about whether or not a Hugo High Homecoming would be a good event to start or if it could be as successful as our Highway 70 sister-city Boswell’s record-setting Homecoming event. (Oldest in Oklahoma!) It’s obvious the event has been a smashing success by the thousands of visitors and many HHS grads it has brought back to the community in which they once lived and forged the basics of their education.

Washington, D.C. — Congressman Josh Brecheen issued the following statement after the sentencing of Pennsylvania’s Bryan Hagerich— one of five Americans being detained by the Turks and Caicos government for inadvertently having ammunition in their luggage. “I am glad to see that a step towards common sense prevailed and Bryan Hagerich of Pennsylvania will be able to return to the U.S. after paying a fine,” said Congressman Josh Brecheen. “His months spent detained in Turks and Caicos already is not right and should not be seen as just moving forward for the others awaiting trial. We are hopeful this outcome sets a precedent for the four other detained Americans, including Oklahoma’s own Ryan Watson.