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- Board gets input for supt. search

- Memorial Day services announced

- Clinton City Council approves several action items

- Area baseball players participate in all-star game

Local loggers

Aristo Sandoval throws down a piece of a branch after trimming it from a tree Wednesday behind a house on Sixth Street. 

The Clinton Public Schools Board of Education held its first meeting to go over applicants for the soon to be vacated superintendent position Wednesday afternoon. The opening is in place due to Tyler Bridges accepting the same position at Stillwater Public Schools.

Memorial Day is a time for people to remember the brave men and women who sacrificed their lives to protect the ideals, freedoms, and people of the nation.

(AP) — The Senate voted on Thursday to block California’s first-in-the nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, acting to kill the nation’s most aggressive effort to transition toward electric vehicles as President Donald Trump’s administration has doubled down on fossil fuels.

NEW YORK (AP) — Detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was allowed to hold his 1-monthold son for the first time Thursday after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to keep the father and infant separated by a plexiglass barrier.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official confirmed Thursday.

Tree branch

Derick Merriam carries a severed branch to the woodchipper Wednesday behind a house on Sixth Street. 

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