(AP) — The Antarctic ozone hole last week peaked at a moderately large size for the third straight year — bigger than the size of North America — but experts say it's still generally shrinking despite recent blips because of high altitude cold weather.

(AP) —When the inevitable hurricanes threaten New Orleans, it's hard for India Scott to figure where to go. In the city where she was born and raised, she's stayed in hotels, relief shelters and, during Hurricane Katrina, in the famously overcrowded Superdome.

Oil painting

Southwest Elementary students working on oil paintings, from left, are Mackenzly Ponce, Hayda Ramos, Camila Hernandez and Madilyn Ruyle.

Uncomfortable questions and hard answers

St. Francis would probably have made most of us uncomfortable. He’s perhaps both the most well known and most domesticated saint. His love for God and God’s creation has made him a secular patron for pets. But his radical love of God and insistence on poverty sparked renewal in a way that should unsettle our lives.

Clinton and Arapaho-Butler FFA compete at Tulsa State Fair

Over the course of the past week, Clinton and Arapaho-Butler FFA showed and competed at one of the largest and busiest fairs both chapters attend each year, the Tulsa State Fair. They both returned with some hardware. The Tulsa State Fair began Sept. 28 and ended Oct. 9.

Preparing for construction

Brian Newman works to remove one of the benches in front of one of the buildings at Nance Elementary School that is set to be remodeled as part of the capital investment project planned for later this fall.

While Bluepeak continues its project to bring fiber internet to Clinton, the City has begun shifting its focus back to its projects at hand at the Clinton Dam, the water treatment plant and the McLain Rogers Amphitheater.

The Public Service Company of Oklahoma has made substantial progress on its Better, Brighter Street Lights program in which they have been replacing old and outdated streetlights in Clinton with new and brighter lights.

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