Clinton Newcommer of Year

Michael Deatherage, center, was presented Friday with the Newcomer of the Year Award at the Clinton Middle School Auditorium. From left are CMS Principal Gene Ray, Supt. Tyler Bridges, Deatherage, CMS Asst. Principal Tanner Wheeler, and Asst. Sup. Nathan Meget.

Monday’s meeting of the Custer County Board of Commissioners proved to be a speedy one with not a lot on the agenda to cover.

On the money

Clinton Regional Hospital CEO Len Lacefield’s watery fate is sealed as Aaron Sawatzky drills the target area of the dunk tank last Friday as the CRH staff celebrated “Hospital Week.”

(AP) — Police in Slovenia are investigating the disappearance of a bronze statue of U.S. first lady Melania Trump that was sawed off and carried away from her hometown.

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, which provided western settlers land for farms.

(AP) — A Delaware animal shelter is trying to care for and rehome thousands of chicks that survived being left in a postal service truck for three days. Trapped in a warm enclosure, without food and water, thousands died before they were discovered.

During a recent luncheon at the Gaylord-Pickens Museum, the Oklahoma Hall of Fame announced the Class of 2025 honorees who will receive the state’s highest honor this November. Rachel Cannon, founder & CEO of Rock Paper Cannon, served as master of ceremonies for the event, and Oklahoma Hall of Fame Member, Anne Morris Greenwood, provided the invocation.

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