The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office has awarded grant funding to sheriff offices across all 77 Oklahoma counties. All grants given out are for the amount of $150,000, $250,000, or $300,000. The Custer County Sheriff’s Office has received a grant in the amount of $250,000.
CASA of Western Oklahoma is looking forward to its upcoming hybrid training in February.
Carlos Teo, top, and Luis Zelaya, do the groundwork to remove the portable classrooms from Southwest Elementary School last week.
After graduating from Corn Bible Academy 22 years ago, Keith Warkentin returned Dec. 1 to work at the school that he believes helped shape him into the man he is today.
Clinton has many churches affiliated with many different denominations of Christianity. One thing they all have in common is they all have a very involved youth and youth group programs. One church here in Clinton that has a large youth program is Cornerstone Church. The head youth pastor, Greg Ferrell, has been at Cornerstone for two years, and is very involved in teaching the youth at the church and in the community about their religion.
To cap off the first semester of school Tracy McCullough, left, was named the 2024-24 Support Staff Employee of the Year and Rhett Blundell was chosen as Teacher of the Year.
On Dec. 13 Ismael Lopez III, 23, of Clinton, was arrested on charges of domestic abuse and consuming intoxicants in public.
Three Western Technology Center engineering students, including two from Clinton, received the Innovate Award Dec. 7 at the Red Dirt Rumble Robotics Meet in El Reno.
Washita Chapter NSDAR honorary regent Carol Ann Batterton is working on an ongoing rock garden project to be placed in veteran clinics. The rocks serve as a thank you to the veterans for their service. Batterton was presented rocks painted by the Arapaho-Butler High School art class taught by Angela Dupree. From left are Merry Jacobs, Jeanette Sikes, Christy Eaton and Daughters of the American Revolution Carol Batterton, Roberta Diggs and Ellena Womack.
The Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board has recently granted funding to the South Western Oklahoma Development Authority (SWODA). According to a press release from SWODA, the funds are meant “to be used to decrease the impact of the current opioid crisis. SWODA hopes to increase resources and services that save lives and decrease or prevent illicit opioid use.”