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- Whitten Inn, adjacent land purchased

- Kinder accepted to Naval Academy

- Jr. Livestock Show begins next weekend

- No. 20 SWOSU Lady Bulldogs clinch GAC crown versus Harding

- Notice of death for Verdell Barker

Dear Doctors: Please help us explain to our kids that using marijuana doesn't keep you from getting COVID-19. We're particularly focused on our two older sons, who are quoting a study that says it supposedly does, and who are in college in a state that just legalized recreational cannabis.

Reader struggles with not being pregnant

DEAR HARRIETTE: My husband and I have been trying to have a baby for five years now. I am emotionally exhausted, and I am beginning to lose hope that I'll ever conceive. I have family members who are having babies left and right out of wedlock – some are even upset about getting pregnant again – while my husband and I have prepared a stable, loving home for kids and can't get pregnant. How can I mentally prepare myself if it never happens for us? – Want a Baby

Whitten Inn,

Centurion Land Development, a company owned by Rick Koch of Weatherford, has purchased the Whitten Inn motel property located at 2140 Gary Blvd. in Clinton. Koch said the transaction was finalized Tuesday. Last month he purchased 4.5 acres of land that joins the Whitten Inn on the south and west. Combined, there will be nearly 10 acres of developable land.

Kinder accepted to Naval Academy

Carson Kinder, a senior at Arapaho-Butler High School, has been accepted into the United States Naval Academy, which is something he said he has always wanted to accomplish.

Jr. Livestock Show

The Custer County Jr. Livestock Show for 4-H and Future Farmers of America students will begin next weekend. The show events are throughout a three-day period beginning Sunday, Feb. 27, and ending Tuesday, March 1.

Haven Animal Rescue and Transportation of Oklahoma is hosting a low-cost vaccine clinic from 9 a.m. to noon today inside the Frisco Center. Clinton Police Department animal control officer Heather Estrada is the founder of HAVTO, and is running the event.

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