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Consumer Horticulturist In Oklahoma, yard trimmings and grass clippings can make up 15 to 25% of a community’s waste. The costs of collecting and transporting yard waste and the subsequent landfill tipping fees may be a considerable portion of a community’s waste management budget. These costs may be reduced if communities encouraged and practiced backyard yard waste composting.

The recent heat wave that swept across much of the country is a good reminder to take extra care of our plants and ourselves as temperatures climb. Extreme temperatures can take their toll even on plants normally suited to the growing conditions.

Eternal Life Fellowship Church, 512 S. Broadway in Hugo, with Pastor Dr. David L. Monk, is holding its summer revival from July 30 through Aug. 1 at 7 p.m. nightly. Evangelist will be Dr. Darnell Wagner, Pastor of Oak Grove Baptist Church in Wright City.

Focused on eliminating driving behaviors that contribute to traffic-related fatalities on our nation’s roads, AAA is joining with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to urge drivers to recognize speeding as an aggressive driving behavior that endangers all road users and to put an end to it because “Speeding Catches Up With You.”

WILBURTON –– Eastern Oklahoma State College has announced honor rolls for the spring 2025 semester. There were 132 students named to the President’s Honor Roll, which requires a 4.0 grade point average in 12 or more credit hours during the semester.

Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn. com The very thing that you dread and fear can keep you thinking about it. A lot, in fact. And that constant thinking can give way to obsessive anxiety. And then the obsessive anxiety and fear begin to take control of your days… and causing sleepless nights. Gradually, the lack of sleep can spiral you into depression, which easily saps your energy. Next thing you know you have lost your zest for your job, your family life, your romantic life… everyday living will seem colorless.

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma recognized four graduates from the Family Medicine Residency Program this summer. Doctors Caitlyn Bowman, Talayna Leonard, Christian Matthew Meeks, and Mason Two Crow finished their three-year residency with Choctaw Nation and began careers across the United States.