No. 21 Snider Dowdell shoots the ball after fighting to get past a Harrah defender during Clinton’s season-opening win over the Panthers Tuesday in the Tornado Dome. CDN | Sam Goodwyn
From left, Emily Weixel, Aaron Reyes, Cody Gore, and Terri Harrelson with Priority Home Medical Equipment wishes everyone a Merry Christmas from the back of their float in the Clinton Festival of Lights Christmas Parade. CDN | Micah Ashcraft
Oklahoma Department of Transportation Dist. 5 Engineer Will Snipes, left, and Clinton City Manager Robert Johnston discuss the updated phases of the upcoming Exit 65 project. CDN | Shiann Dawson
Brayden Fuller, left, poses with Coach John Higbee after being awarded the Fred Friedrich Leadership Award at the annual football banquet in the Frisco Center to end the season. CDN | Sam Goodwyn
Enjoying company
Clinton Firefighter Jacob Hoffman records evidence of damage while at the scene of three fallen utility poles Monday afternoon near the 900 block of N. 17th Street. CDN | Micah Ashcraft

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Sports

Clinton Middle School’s Braxton Garrison keeps the ball away from a Weatherford defender during the Whirlwinds’ eighthgrade game against the Eagles in the Tornado Dome. CDN |Steve Wheeler

Future All-Stars

No. 21 Snider Dowdell shoots the ball after fighting to get past a Harrah defender during Clinton’s season-opening win over the Panthers Tuesday in the Tornado Dome. CDN | Sam Goodwyn

To tip-off the year, Clinton basketball faced off against the Harrah Panthers Tuesday in the Tornado Dome.

Columns & Opinions

DEAR HARRIETTE: My friend expects me to handle every single detail whenever we hang out: choosing the activity, making the reservations, checking hours and figuring out travel time. The moment we decide to do something, she defaults to, “You pick!” or “Just tell me where to go!”

MARBLEHEAD, Mass. – He helped supply the Continental Army during the early days of the American Revolution. He signed the Declaration of Independence. He shaped the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He was a member of the House of Representatives, a governor of Massachusetts and vice president. He lent his name – perhaps the most mispronounced name in American history, even more so than Kamala – to the creative shaping of a congressional district we now call “gerrymandering.”

Obituaries

Funeral services for Charlotte Louise Dyer, 83, of Ada, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Criswell Funeral Home in Ada.

Tryston Richard Proa “Red Feather”, age 24, lifelong resident of Clinton, passed away Friday, November 28, 2025, at his home in Clinton. He was born February 24, 2001, in Clinton, Oklahoma.