Due to the weather, the Custer County Courthouse will open at 9 a.m. today (Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020).
Ariana Bradley sets multiple alarms that start going off at 5:30 a.m. on school days, but rarely rolls out of bed before 6:30.
Those wanting to vote early on the $29.7 million Clinton Public School Bond Issue can do so Thursday and Friday from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. at the Custer County Election Board, 633 N. 6th St. Election Day voting will be Tuesday from 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. at the regular polling places.
County Commissioner Wade Anders watches as a new 97-foot I-beams weighing 81,000 pounds a piece are placed on this bridge under construction 4.5 miles west of Arapaho at Barnitz Creek. Funding for the eventually completed $1-million project is 75 percent federal and 25 percent from the state.
Clinton High School Key Club members, from left, Emily Stephens, Emma Swope and Litzy Silos show some of the jeans they have collected in an effort to help homeless teenagers. The jean drive will continue through mid-February and donation boxes are at the school library and atrium areas.
A Custer County prisoner who escaped from custody just after Saturday midnight was recaptured that afternoon still wearing his handcuffs.
The Washita National Wildlife Refuge and Foss State Park will host a free wildlife tour on Saturday, Feb. 8.
Sherrie Johnson, Clinton High School FACS teacher, seated left, presents a plant to Connie McGrath, widow of the late Jeff McGrath, former La-Z-Boy material manager. Mr. McGrath died shortly after giving Johnson’s students a tour of the facility in Siloam Springs, Ark., last year.
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