From the heart

Lachlan Penner of the WOCS 4-H placed fourth in the intermediate division with his speech about a scripture from Proverbs at the Custer County 4-H Speech Contest.

The COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer was granted an Emergency Use Authorization recently the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The first doses of Pfizer’s vaccine have arrived in Oklahoma this week.

State Rep. Avery Frix, R-Muskogee, recently commented on the approval of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s Eight-Year Plan during the Oklahoma Transportation Commission’s monthly meeting.

Staying dry

The Clinton Elementary PTO donated rain ponchos and umbrellas to Nance Elementary for the workers in the car dismissal lines. Pictured are, from left, Jordan Mosburg with the PTO, first-grade teacher Hillary Barnes, special education teacher Julie Adkinson and Brittany Crider with the PTO.

Applications are now open for grants and loans through the Oklahoma Healthy Food Financing Program – a brand new program aiming to create or improve a retail food location in areas with low access to fresh foods and a low-income population.

Job builds character

JD Jones of WOCS 4-H placed second in the intermediate level of the Custer County 4-H Speech Contest with a speech about him building character at the place he works at every Wednesday.

Here is a look at Tuesday's headlines

- CPD honors officers at awards ceremony

- Woman injured in Sunday wreck

- Coleman, Cisneros are December honorees at Clinton High School

- Tim Gene Smith obituary

- Lewis Frank Twohatchet obituary

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol investigated a personal injury accident around 2:30 p.m. Sunday on a county road approximately 2 miles east and 2 and a half miles south of Colony in Washita County.

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