Here's a preview of Wednesday's CDN

- Manager talks grant opportunities

- County cattle brand book in works

- Square-dancing couple leaves Ardmore in a new T-Bird

- An athletic director has a lot to focus on

- Full obituary for Jerry Ray Keil

Grants have become a focus of the City of Clinton and Clinton City Manager Robert Johnston over the past year as they continue to seek funding opportunities for various projects outlined in the City’s Capital Improvement Plan in an effort to achieve not only the needs of the City, but wants as well.

Sweets for the holidays

AMBUCS members Misty Crider, left, and Brenda Burton hold up one of their boxes they will be selling as a part of the civic organization’s annual fundraiser. Boxes will contain seven different kinds of homemade candy and can be purchased for $40 from any AMBUCS member until the end of Saturday.

Leveling the earth

A wheel tractor-scraper moves dirt from high to low areas at the construction site of the new Clinton Middle School.

Square-dancing couple leaves Ardmore in a new T-Bird

The Oklahoma Square Dance Federation (OSDF) held its annual 2023 State Festival from Nov. 3-5 at the Ardmore Convention Center where callers called, partners danced, and Clinton locals Phillip and Melva Snider won the grand prize in the OSDF’s raffle, a 2004 Ford Thunderbird.

The Oklahoma State University’s Extension Office of Custer County is teaming up with the Custer County Cattlemen’s Association to update the county’s cattle brand book with updated brands and contact information for area farmers to provide to law enforcement officials and others to help in the event of loose cattle out.

In 1929, Richard Byrd, Bernt Balchen, Harold June and Ashley McKinley became the first men to fly over the South Pole.

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