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Representatives of the Heart of Texas Shrine Club donated a total of $5,000 to area volunteer fire departments Monday. Fire chiefs from the Dam, Bridge, Winchell, North Lake, May, Blanket, Brookesmith and Zephyr fire departments gathered outside the Brown County Courthouse, where club president Sammie Stewart, accompanied by other members of the club, presented each fire chief with a check for $625.

With the shortage of infant formula on store shelves and uncertainty of when there may be new supplies, many people are turning to the internet and social media to find out how to make their own infant formula at home.

WASHINGTON – A massive recall is getting most of the blame for the U.S. baby formula shortage, but experts say the products have long been vulnerable to this type of crisis due to decades-old policies that have allowed a handful of companies to corner the market.

The Brownwood High School Academic Awards Ceremony was held Thursday. Students were honored in a variety of academic and extracurricular fields, including the valedictorian and salutatorian presentations. Valedictorian honors were presented to Weston Burns, and salutatorian honors were awarded to Olivia Fowler. Burns and Fowler are scheduled to walk the stage at Gordon Wood Stadium on Friday, May 27, as part of the graduating class of 2022. Commencement begins at 7 p.m., and a live video broadcast will be available at https://www.brownwoodisd.org/bhsgraduation. A full list of awards and photos from the awards ceremony are viewable at: https://www.brownwoodisd.org/2022BHSAwards. HEATHER NIX / SPECIAL TO THE BULLETIN

Brownwood celebrated itself Friday evening as a large crowd turned out for the Brownwood Area Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Chamber Banquet, held at the Depot and Margaret & Stuart Coleman Plaza. The evening started inside the Depot with a “networking hour” and entertainment from the Flying Ivories dueling pianos.

SEOUL, South Korea – U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said after meeting Saturday that they will consider expanded joint military exercises to deter the nuclear threat from North Korea at a time when there’s little hope of real diplomacy on the matter.

PANAMA CITY – U.S. first lady Jill Biden arrived in Panama on Friday, her second stop on a three-country Latin America visit before the United States hosts the Summit of the Americas next month in Los Angeles.

WASHINGTON – Nina Jankowicz, like so many millennials, was excited to share a social media post announcing her new job on Twitter late last month when she was named executive director for a new disinformation board established by the Department of Homeland Security.