Spooky creation

Leslie Ponce, left, is holding Jaiden Begay’s original clay jack-o-lantern so she can sign the bottom of it. Students in Clinton High School’s 3D art class are working hard to have seasonal creations ready to take home before Halloween.

Clinton vocalists selected for Honor Choir

Members of Clinton’s Junior High and High School Choir performed Monday at the First Baptist Church in Lawton, as part of the Southwest All-Region Honor Choir.

The Custer County OSU Extension Office will host a meeting for agricultural producers who want to learn more about the 2018 Farm Bill, to be held from 8 a.m. until noon on Monday at the Custer County Fairgrounds, 1738 U.S. Highway 183 in Clinton.

The State of Oklahoma and Custer County aren’t the only government entities dealing with road improvements this week. At its regular meeting Tuesday night, the Clinton City Council approved asphalt overlays of three in-town streets expected to cost a little over $280,000.

In 1767, the boundary between Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania (the Mason-Dixon Line) was established.

In 1962, Drs. James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins won the Nobel Prize in medicine/physiology for uncovering the double-helix structure of DNA.

ANADARKO

Savage, Paula LeMarr McBride: 61, newspaper editor, died Oct. 12. Memorial services 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Anadarko Daily News (Ray & Martha’s, Anadarko).

ARDMORE

FRIDAY

OCTOBER 18

SENIOR EVENT: Grocery shopping. For a ride call (580) 309-3467. 8:30 a.m.

DANCE: American Legion dance at the Legion Hall on U.S. 183, entry by donation. 6:30 p.m - 9:30 p.m.

   A story in Thursday’s Clinton Daily News was in error when it said Daivia (Day Day) Simpkins had participated in events surrounding the alleged kidnapping and armed robbery of two men here

Science students conduct experiment

In Diane Keeton’s science class at Washington Elementary, Jaden Londigan, left, and Brayden Fuller use their skills to measure liquids in graduated cylinders.

When students at Clinton High School return from fall break there will be a new notification system in place to immediately alert parents whenever their child is absent without approval.

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