Today is the 212th day of 2020 and the 41st day of summer.

Sappington earns high collegiate marks

Taya Sappington, a 2017 graduate of Arapaho-Butler, recently received the Award of Excellence of President’s Honor Roll from Oklahoma State University. She has maintained a 4.0 grade point average for all six semesters she has attended OSU.

Dangers of voting by mail

President Trump has said many times that voting by mail – which will play a big role in this November's presidential election – is vulnerable to fraud. "There is tremendous evidence of fraud whenever you have mail-in ballots," Trump has noted. The November election, he added, "will be, in my opinion, the most corrupt election in the history of our country."

Fiegener honored with recognition

Clinton High School 2009 graduate Mark Fiegener, son of Rob and Amy Fiegener, recently received firm-wide recognition during the annual leadership conference held by BKD CPAs & Advisors.

Nearly 25 years ago the director of the Oklahoma Department of Commerce was in Clinton to talk about how we could improve our town.

Commutation

Many Democrats, along with some in the press and a few Republicans, have expressed outrage at President Trump's commutation of political operative Roger Stone's jail sentence for lying to Congress and witness tampering. GOP Sen. Mitt Romney, the only senator ever to vote to remove a president of his own party, was particularly outraged.

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