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- Chamber readies to host banquet

- Grant approved for Dist. 1

- Plumlee selected for hall of fame

- Red Tornadoes host Anadarko in scrimmage

- Clinton begins new cross country season with medals

1 It proved to be a quick and light meeting for Custer County commissioners Monday at the Custer County Courthouse in Arapaho.

Gathering for lunch

Ronald Starr and Oliver Fredrick Pedro meet for lunch at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Elderly Nutrition Center.

The Clinton Chamber of Commerce is set to host its annual banquet, celebrating local achievements and community spirit. This year’s event, themed “24 Karat Success: You Are Our Shining Star,” will begin at 6 p.m. Sept. 6 at the Frisco Center.

Drumming

Jaidyn Curtis Harrison gets into formation while playing the drum during band practice at Clinton High School.

Plumlee selected for hall of fame

Army Master Sergeant Earl D. Plumlee, 2021 Medal of Honor recipient, will be inducted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame on Oct. 26 at the Norman Embassy Suites, 2501 Conference Dr.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The official nonprofit organization of the National Park Service is set to receive the largest grant in its history, a $100 million gift the fundraising group described as transformative for the country’s national parks.

LONDON (AP) — Icelandic police on Monday called off the search for anyone trapped in the previous day’s collapse of an ice cave that killed one person and injured another, saying that all members of the tourist expedition had been accounted for.

In 1859, Edwin L. Drake found oil with the first successful oil well in the United States near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

GRAFTON, Ohio (AP) — A state prison in northeast Ohio says that for the first time in the state’s history, a five-course meal has been served to members of the public with food prepared by incarcerated men from fruits and vegetables grown in the prison garden.

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