Clinton City Council members unanimously approved spending $63,000 to complete the new $265,000 playground area that is under construction at McLain Rogers Park.
It took a near monumental effort, but this weekend the Clinton Daily News will publish its annual graduation section.
Clinton Public School maintenance employee Brian Newman shovels dirt on the Clinton football practice field in preparation for sprinklers.
Clinton High School senior counselor Brenda Louthan said 167 seniors are graduating this year, and a record number of them are planning on attending college in the fall. In a typical year, 15-20 percent of CHS seniors end up going to college. This year that figure is closer to 40 percent, she said.
Today is the 128th day of 2020 and the 50th day of spring.
Able Environmental Drilling employees continue work on closing down a well at the location formerly occupied by A-Ok Lock and Key, at 920 W. Gary Blvd.
DAY SHIFT
Here's a look inside the Wednesday Edition
- Unemployment scams on rise
- Newalla man dies in wreck
- Inmates scrap at two prisons
- Hernandez surges to starting role
- Trudy Rehder Obituary
- State deaths
- Local pics and more.
Clinton Police Chief Paul Rinkel said CPD and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol assisted Federal Bureau of Investigators on a case they were working on in the 600 block of Hayes Ave. and 500 block of S. 11 St. The OHP bomb squad was on scene as well, according to Rinkel. CPD detectives were at both locations. Rinkel said no arrests were made in the federal case, but one arrest occurred as a result. If any charges are filed by the FBI, they will be filed in federal court.
Custer County OSU Extension Family and Consumer Sciences educator Lisa Rauh reported that at least 3,800 fraudulent unemployment claims have been filed in Oklahoma since mid-March, by scammers attempting to claim unemployment benefits in someone else’s name.