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- Summer Playground needs funds
- School board covers several different topics
- Howell earns gift from Masons for art
- A-B softball finishes as state runner-ups
- Notice of death for John Edward Smith Jr.
Clinton’s Summer Playground is set to begin next week with area children embarking of seven weeks of fortified learning and fun. The only problem is finances.
The old and the new is represented here with Clinton Fireman Austin Long standing in front of the department’s 1930 Seagrave fire engine loaded up to be delivered Tuesday morning to the Oklahoma Firefighters Museuem in Oklahoma City. The engine, which cost $8,750 brand new and was signed for by McLain Rogers on Feb. 19, 1930, was declared surplus by the Clinton City Council in order to donate it to the museum. Capt. Blake Shaddon rolled out of town with it before 9 a.m. Tuesday to take the fire engine to its new home.
In a very quick meeting Monday night, the Clinton Public Schools Board of Education was presented with an update on the future middle school construction, the remediation/dropout of high school students from 2023, renewing a food contract, and resignations for the school district.
A Clinton High School senior took home second place in a statewide program put on by the Oklahoma Masonic Chair Foundation.
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government advised American travelers age 60 and older not get a chikungunya vaccine as it investigates possible side effects.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Pete Buttigieg returned to Iowa on Tuesday for an event focused on veterans, six years after he burst onto the national political stage with a strong run ahead of the state’s leadoff presidential caucuses.
Richard Vasquez, left, holds the ladder for Kevin Karr, who works on a light fixture at 616 Frisco Ave.
JB and Pat Richardson will be feted for their 60th wedding anniversary from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 18, at the Putnam Senior Citizen’s Center in Putnam.
In 1607, the Virginia Company of London established a colony at Jamestown, Virginia.