the point Publisher I’m not sure which caveman got credited with making the round wheel, or who came up with the idea of putting up guardrails to keep people and cars from falling from high places. But someone did...

Bowman Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn. com Do.

Leadership Oklahoma, a statewide leadership program in its 39th year, is now accepting applications for its 2025-2026 adult class. The organization accepts a class of 52 members each year.

Graveside services for Michael Shane Benjamin, of Hugo, Okla., were held at 2 p.m. Jan.

Howard Truitt (Dick) Gibson, of Hugo, Okla., left this life on Dec. 25, 2024, at the age of 91.

Funeral services for John Charles Walker, of Sawyer, Okla., were held at 2 p.m. Jan.

Graveside services for Eugene “Gene” Charles Philips, of Boswell, Okla., were held at 2 p.m. Jan.

Candidates for two summer internship programs at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation must apply in the next few weeks. Both programs are paid, eight-week biomedical research internships.

A new five-year National Institutes of Health grant will help an Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist study muscle loss. With the $1,017,000 grant, Jordan Fuqua, Ph.D., hopes to better understand the normal muscle loss that occurs with aging and the accelerated atrophy that follows hospitalization or prolonged bedrest in older people.