-Judge explains reasons for denying bond
-Craft show in Arapaho Saturday
-Elk City dam could be redone
-Treatment center plans expansion
-CHS hosting playoff opener Friday
-Indians start regionals after district title win
-Plus see local pictures
In his first court appearance since being charged with first-degree murder with malice aforethought, Brandon Benevento was denied bond Monday by Special District Judge Stephanie Jones.
Work continues on the restoration of the old Arapaho Reading Room, and to raise funds for the project’s next phase the community will hold its Spring Fling Craft Show from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Saturday at the Arapaho Community Center.
Students in Cindy Bond’s science class at Clinton High School were visited by a nonvenomous python native to northern Africa. Pictured, from left, are the snake’s owner, Zianne Skaggs-Bell, Alex Jones and Charidee Kliewer.
A dam at Elk City is one of four across Oklahoma which could be updated with funds now being assembled.
The dam presumably is the one on Elk City Lake located near the golf course at the south edge of town.
The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes has announced that a significant expansion and renovation is planned at the George Hawkins Memorial Treatment Center (GHMTC) in Clinton, and to kick off the project a groundbreaking ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 1, at the facility.
Darean Tyler works through his Vesper’s lesson at “Talk & Stuff.” The after-school program is held for pre-teens the first and second Wednesday afternoons of each month during the school year at Clinton’s First Baptist Church.
No one was injured, but a 2016 Oklahoma Highway Patrol cruiser with only 40,000 miles on it sustained heavy damage when it was hit by an allegedly drunk driver while Trooper Travis Hale was stopped with another vehicle on Interstate 40.