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.
A Clinton park without a name now has one, and Clinton firemen and sheriff’s deputies have agreed to maintain it and keep playground equipment there in working order.
The park is the one on the north side of Clinton Middle School, at N. Ninth Street and Nowahy Avenue.
Southwest Elementary fourth-graders who will be starring in the school’s musical production of “Aladdin” are Kenden West, front bottom; and, from left, Brylie Driskill, Scout Acosta, Olivia Campbell, Diamond Gaston, Ryder Adams, Ethan Lofland and Jorge Martinez Favela.