FRIDAY
-After bond fails, back to drawing board
-Home invasion prelim begins
-Custer County Junior Livestock Show opens Sunday, Feb. 23
-Clinton loses games at Newcastle
-Arapaho-Butler sweeps ranked Leedey on road
-Plus see local pictures
Gearing up for the Clinton Middle School bean supper, art show, variety show, book fair and makers fair on Thursday, Feb. 20, are, from left, Pam Smith, Alejandro Alvarez, Zac Adams, Paola Ochoa and Baileigh Giblet.
Combined preliminary hearings got underway Wednesday for four men accused in a bloody home invasion on Thanksgiving night, Nov. 28, 2019, in the 600 block of S. Eighth Street in Clinton.
After voters rejected the Clinton School Board’s $29.7 million bond proposal this week, board member Luke Adams said the issue will now have to be put on hold while the board focuses on hiring a new superintendent of schools.
Washington Elementary students Alex Suy-Chumil, left, and Santiago Vasquez study rocks in Diane Keeton’s science class. The boys are using a dichotomous key to examine the qualities of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks.
This year the Custer County Junior Livestock Show will begin its annual three-day run from Sunday, Feb. 23, through Tuesday, Feb. 25. All events will be held at the Custer County Fairgrounds and will include four species: beef, sheep, goats and swine.
Western Oklahoma Christian School sixthgrades Josh Valencia, left, and Braden Davey learn about the presidential election process in preparation for a mock election at the school.
Western Oklahoma Christian School students, from left, Joshua Valencia, August Dobrinski and Cruze Bittle give a presentation on bullying and its prevention at an assembly held at the end of “Kindness Week.”
In 1542, Catherine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII, was executed on grounds of treason for committing adultery.