Waving to the crowd

Clinton Queen candidate Miranda Brinkley, left, and Peewee Princess candidate Gemma Range wave to the crowd at the Clinton Rodeo Parade Friday in downtown Clinton. CDN

Custer County Commissioners received updates on routine projects across the county at their weekly meeting Monday. Various blanket purchase orders and work applications were also approved at the meeting.

Red Collar plant being purchased

Red Collar Pet Foods’ manufacturing plant in south Clinton is part of a $700 million plan by Colgate-Palmolive Company to purchase three dry pet food manufacturing plants in the United States from Red Collar. The other two plants are located in South Carolina and Ohio.

Over the rainbow…

Dorothy (Samantha Rother) sings about going somewhere over the rainbow to leave her home in Kansas before she takes a journey of a lifetime to the land of Oz during Southwest Playhouse’s recent production of “The Wizard of Oz, Young Performers Edition.”

Telling a story with friends

Meghan Casey with Rocky Mountain Puppett Show puts on a special performace for those in attendance at the Clinton Public Library. CDN

Pat Carroll, a comedic television mainstay for decades, Emmy-winner for “Caesar’s Hour” and the voice Ursula in “The Little Mermaid,” has died. She was 95.

Creating unique designs

Tiernen Stevens, left, and Cayden McCoy work on coloring during Doodles and Designs at Summer Playground. CDN

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government and publishing titan Penguin Random House exchanged opening salvos in a federal antitrust trial Monday as the U.S. seeks to block the biggest U.S. book publisher from absorbing rival Simon & Schuster. The case comes as a key test of the Biden administration’s antitrust policy.

YREKA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities said two bodies were found inside a burned vehicle in the path of a raging northern California wildfire that is one of several major blazes burning across the U.S. West amid hot, dry, gusty conditions.

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