Oklahoma Municipal Management Services Executive Director Steve Whitlock, left, Clinton City Manager Robert Johnston, and past President of the City Management Association of Oklahoma Brooks Mitchell stand together after presenting Johnston with the 2025

Clinton City Manager Robert Johnston was named the winner of the 2025 Gerald Wilkins Award on July 24. The award is named for the late Wilkins, who was a city manager and municipal adviser to the Oklahoma Department of Commerce.

On his first day officially acting in the position, Hardy Sperle was introduced as the new emergency management director for Custer County at Monday’s Custer County Commissioner’s meeting.

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- Manager gives thoughts on hospital

- Adler talks about bid for Ward 3

- Corn Bible Academy preps for start of school year

- OSIDA’s work with Boeing touted 

- Lorne represents Clinton at All-State wrestling match

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers began searching for answers on Thursday following the deadly July 4 floods to the heart of the devastation in Kerr County, where local officials faced questions over their response to the disaster that swept away homes and campers along the Guadalupe River.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Pentagon said Thursday it is ending the deployment of all but 250 National Guard troops that were originally sent to Los Angeles to deal with protests over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

(AP) — A man convicted of the 1994 killings of his wife and their two children became the ninth person put to death in Florida this year, his death Thursday marking a state record for a single-year execution total since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the death penalty decades ago.

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