Clinton Junior Service League’s annual spaghetti feed fundraiser is set for this Friday at the Frisco Center, offering lunch from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and dinner from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Preparing for the event are members, from left, Stacie Nickel, Tayler Hartman, Madison Heard, Brittany Miller, Erin Giles, and Chelle Gutermuth.
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Sports
The Clinton Red Tornado football team (3-1, 0-1) is looking to bounce back from its first loss of the season, after dropping the “Custer County Conflict,” as it prepares for the Bridge Creek Bobcats to visit the Tornado Bowl Friday for the homecoming game.
Ronald Segal of Clinton has been declared the winner of last week’s edition of the
Columns & Opinions
Of two appalling sex crimes currently in the news, one strikes me as entirely predictable, the other so bizarre as to make one question how it could possibly have happened in a civilized country. In this I differ from Elizabeth Spiers, an opinion writer in The New York Times, who asserts that both demonstrate that “viewing women as subhuman and inferior is not just tolerated in much of American culture; it’s an integral part of it.”
• It may still be warm outside, but here’s a plan-ahead tip for the cold winter months: Invest in an electric snowblower. New electric snowblowers utilize rechargeable batteries, so there’s no gas tank to fill, and there are no greenhouse emissions released when it’s in use. This is also the perfect solution for smallscale snow removal. Of course, the greenest snow-removal system is a shovel and broom – but if you need a snowblower, go electric.
Obituaries
Linda Jo (Hoffman) Regier, 84 of Cordell, Oklahoma, passed away peacefully on September 30, 2024, in Cordell, Oklahoma.
Imogene “Vicki” Herndon, age 65, of Clinton, passed away peacefully on September 30, 2024, at Southwest Medical Center in Lawton.