Former Clinton Lady Red Thrower Kat Meacham participates in the hammer throw event for the University of Kansas track and field team this season. CDN | Courtesy photo
The Special Olympics team for Clinton came together for a team photo during the Summer Special Olympics State Games in Stillwater. Pictured in front, from left, are Bella Bridgeman, Lily Adkinson, Jade Hall, Olivia Campbell, Winter Lee, Tatum Shackelford,
Brett Brittain fills the snow cone maker in the concession stand between the T-Ball fields during the Noon Lions games at Acme Brick Park. CDN | Sam Goodwyn
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Fred Stehr was scheduled to be presented a Quilt of Valor earlier but was unable to attend the ceremony due to illness. He was presented the quilt recently at the hospital and is seen here beaming with pride. Stehr served in the U.S. Army. The quilt was p
Project Manager Zach Whedbee, left, and Streets Maintenance Supervisor Craig Tucker look at the tornado form mold that will be used to decorate one of the future bridges being built on Interstate 40. CDN | Christian Jacobsen

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Former Clinton Lady Red Thrower Kat Meacham participates in the hammer throw event for the University of Kansas track and field team this season. CDN | Courtesy photo

With another year in the books, former Clinton thrower Kat Meacham is not slowing down as she prepares to step into an upperclassman role next year.

(AP) –Those anxious to tease out worst-case scenarios that could come from gambling’s growing stranglehold on sports couldn’t have found a better place for one of those scenarios to land — in the middle of college football, a sport that for decades has proven uniquely unable to deal with its mostpressing problems.

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DEAR HARRIETTE: I have not been on the dating scene for years, but I recently put myself out there. I am a young 70-year-old, and I met a man who is in his late 50s. We hit it off and like each other a lot. We do have a problem, though. We attempted to get intimate, and it was uncomfortable and painful. It was awkward, but we still had a nice time. I’m not sure what to do. I don’t want this to be a deal-breaker. I’ve heard that the body changes down there, but I didn’t know it changed that much. What can I do, and what should I say to him? I don’t want to avoid intimacy. – Uncomfortable DEAR UNCOMFORTABLE:

In 1935, Dr. Robert Smith and William Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron, Ohio.

Obituaries

A private graveside service for Bob Setterfield, 90, of Clinton, was held June 9, at Arapaho Cemetery.

Geraldine Marie Ward, age 65, of Clinton, Oklahoma, passed away peacefully at her home on Monday, June 8, 2026. She was born October 5, 1960, in La Puente, California, to Augustina (Segovia) Valdez.