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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the availability of $92.2 million in competitive grant funding under the 2018 Farm Bill’s Local Agriculture Market Program (LAMP). The LAMP grants announced today are funded through the Farmers Market program as part of USDA’s Pandemic Assistance for Producers Initiative. USDA launched this initiative in March to address shortfalls and disparities in how assistance was distributed in previous COVID-19 assistance packages, with a specific focus on strengthening outreach to underserved producers and communities and small and medium agricultural operations. These grants support the development, coordination and expansion of direct producer-to-consumer marketing, local and regional food markets and enterprises and value-added agricultural products.
Read moreAndrew T. Hattersley, DBE, FMedSci, FRS, has been named the recipient of the 2021 Harold Hamm International Prize for Biomedical Research in Diabetes. Hattersley, Professor of Molecular Medicine, University of Exeter Medical School, U.K., was nominated by Alvin Powers, M.D., Vanderbilt University; and Juleen Zierath, Ph.D., Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Read moreThe daily incarceration rate at the Seminole County Jail will soon double for the City of Seminole and other municipalities in the county, and the city manager of Seminole said the hike may be in retaliation for a failed jail tax referendum.
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Above, a youngster climbs on a dinosaur at the Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum. The museum reopened Tuesday morning after being closed for over a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Willis Deatherage has announced his candidacy for the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, General Council for the Tusekia Harjo Band.
Following is Deatherage’s campaign message:
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The Seminole State College Educational Foundation honored four outstanding former students with induction into the SSC Alumni Hall of Fame and presented former SSC President Dr.
Read moreGovernor Kevin Stitt on Monday signed Executive Order 2021-11 to withdraw and rescind the COVID-19 State of Emergency effective Tuesday, May 4.
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