The Local Food for Schools Program has been extended until Oct. 31, 2024. The program has successfully increased the opportunity for select Oklahoma school districts to purchase local foods for school meal programs.

OKLAHOMA CITY — The destructive Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is present in McCurtain, Choctaw and Carter Counties in southern Oklahoma as confirmed by USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).

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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.