Clinton students lined the streets one day this week to wave at teachers as they drove through neighborhoods, letting their students know they were thinking of them. Now that physical classrooms are closed for the rest of the school year, Southwest Elementary school counselor Kim Quintero said the unanticipated long separation is turning out to be hard on teachers as well as students.
Clinton City Manager Mark Skiles is pleased with the emergency relief package that was passed by the U.S. Senate late Wednesday.
As of Thursday morning this week, the number of positive COVID-19 cases reported in Custer County remained at three. Custer County Health Department Regional Director Terri Salisbury had some advice for people needing help interpreting the numbers being released on a daily basis now from the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH).
Attorney General Mike Hunter issued a consumer alert after receiving reports of individuals attempting to sell at-home tests for the coronavirus.
Today is the 87th day of 2020 and the ninth day of spring.
Here's a peak at Thursday's CDN
- April filing dates set for county offices
- 2 new cases of COVID-19 in county
- Effects of no school testing should be minimal here
- Nguyen lives up to pedigree
Now that the Oklahoma Department of Education has voted to suspend school classes for the remainder of the academic year, and the U.S. Department of Education has also okayed the suspension of state testing, Clinton students’ summer vacations are essentially beginning seven weeks earlier than the




