A local church is making efforts to ensure families have what they need in order to cook their own Christmas meals this holiday season. This is the inaugural year of Cornerstone’s Blessing Box, which has so far received a very positive reception from the community.

Carlos Cruze uses a Bobcat skid steer to carry a crate down Jaycee Lane Tuesday toward the new Clinton Middle School building.

King Austin, left, talks with Robert Decoteau in the decorated cafeteria area while they wait for lunch Monday at the Veteran’s Center.

Dewayne Wilson works on the construction site at Red Wheat Drive Tuesday in front of McDonald’s.

Temo Ponce hacks at some excess concrete Tuesday at the new Clinton Middle School.

As he takes in his final year of high school basketball, Clinton’s Kyron Forrest is starting to figure out the rest of his life.