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Paul Monies Oklahoma Watch With less than a month left to go in the legislative session, House and Senate leaders are inching closer to a budget agreement and Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed hundreds of bills into law.

Rural Electric Cooperative recently donated $18,350 in grants to rural fire departments in the cooperative’s service area, including several in Garvin County. The grant awards were presented during REC’s annual Fire Department Appreciation Banquet, an event the cooperative has hosted for the last 34 years to recognize rural firefighters for their efforts in protecting lives and property.

The next “Let’s Talk About It” book discussion series at the Nora Sparks Warren Library is May 9 at 6 p.m. The theme of the spring 2024 series is “Private Investigation: Hard-Boiled and Soft-Hearted.” May’s title is “Killing Orders” by Sara Poretsky.

WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced Wednesday that federal disaster assistance is available to the state of Oklahoma to supplement recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes and flooding beginning on April 25, 2024, and continuing.

OKLAHOMA CITY (April 28, 2024) – The Emergency Price Stabilization Act is in effect in the 12 Oklahoma counties hard hit by last night’s tornadoes. The counties are Carter, Cotton, Garfield, Hughes, Kay, Lincoln, Love, Murray, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, Payne and Pontotoc.

Mid-America Technology Center students in the Emergency Medical Technician, Health Careers Explorer, Nursing Services Advanced, Therapeutic Health Careers, and Practical Nursing programs recently attended the 2024 HOSA State Leadership Conference.

Laney Chelle Anderson, of Stratford, is graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Social Work degree from Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva. Spring commencement exercises at Northwestern Oklahoma State University will be held at 10:30 a.m.

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