A total of 8,170 students were named to the 2022 fall semester honor rolls at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, including 3,595 students named to the President’s Honor Roll for earning an A grade in all their courses.

Be very careful what you wish for regarding amendments. They can appear ideal and appeal to our desperation, but in reality, mean exactly the opposite. I will illustrate some of those in a later “Minute.” You might be shocked. As we previously said, statecraft is serious business.

STILLWATER –– The Oklahoma State University Ferguson College of Agriculture recognized three transfer students for their excellence both in and out of the classroom during their first year at OSU.

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Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn. com Were you one of us who made yourself a promise or a vow for the new year? And then look up, and it is six days into 2023 and you’ve already blown it? Or maybe, you’re one of those people who know themselves well enough that you didn’t even bother wasting brain power on considering making a new year resolution. “Why bother? I won’t make it past eight in the morning of January 1 before I decide it’s not worth it.”

The Iris Garden Club of Hugo held its December meeting with a progressive dinner on Dec. 12.

The very idea of amendments –– part 1 of 3 Heed the words of Daniel Webster in his 4th of July Oration, 1802: “The politician that undertakes to improve a Constitution with as little thought as a farmer sets about mending his plow is no master of his trade. If that Constitution be a systematic one, if it be a free one, its parts are so necessarily connected that an alteration in one will work an alteration in all; and this cobbler, however pure and honest his intentions, will, in the end, find that what came to his hands a fair and lovely fabric goes from them a miserable piece of patchwork.” Statecraft is serious business which requires systematic study to master.

D’yani Ty’Chelle Rosalie Hambleton is the Hugo News First Baby of the Year for 2023. She is the first baby born in Choctaw County in the new year.

The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH), the Tulsa County Health Department (THD) and the Oklahoma City-County Health Department (OCCHD) are being awarded more than $43 million dollars to invest in public health in Oklahoma, through a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded $2.1 million to an Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist for the continued study of lymphatic vessels. Experiments funded by the five-year grant to vascular biologist Pengchun Yu, Ph.D., will focus on turning on and off the mechanisms that trigger production of these vessels.