Installing hardware

Oscar Hidalgo carefully puts together the small hardware that will be placed on the new playground equipment at McLain Rogers Park.

Youth excel in Farmhand Olympics

Arapaho Butler’s 4-H club members from left, Rowan Jabara, Leader Debbie Matz, Maggie Keaton and Zoe Carter won first place in the Farmhand Olympic 4-H Farm division at this year’s fair.

Showcasing heifer

Kalyssa Staggs proudly exhibits her outstanding Simmental heifer, which earned First in Class and Reserve Breed Champion honor at the Custer County Free Fair.

Awarding students

Western Oklahoma Christian School in Clinton has announced their Students of the Month for August. From left, Principal Erin Funk, Student of the Months Paizley House, and Ava Newton, with Head of School Dora Miller.

EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — Edward J. Slattery, a retired Catholic bishop who apologized for reinstating a priest who later admitted to sexually abusing an Oklahoma boy, has died, the Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma said Saturday. He was 84.

NEW YORK (AP) — Four people were wounded at a Brooklyn subway station Sunday when police officers shot a man threatening them with a knife, and inadvertently sprayed bullets that hit passengers, authorities said.

Final touches

Zayne Sawatzky places pillows on the metal pergola with a swinging bed made in school with classmates as a showpiece for the Custer County Free Fair.

FRIDAY DAY SHIFT Performed extra patrol in the area of 5th St. and Nowahy Ave.

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