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- Midtown Inn still stuck in quandary

- Arapaho-Butler sets Pre-K sign-up

- PEO awards grant for continuing ed

- Louthan signs with Kansas Wesleyan for baseball

- Clinton track off to hot start with two state titles

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Dietary Manager Tara Nobles cleans containers along with the rest of the kitchen at Clinton Regional Hospital in anticipation of the opening of the dietary department later this spring.

The future of the Midtown Inn has been in limbo for quite some time now. Despite talk of demolition or reconstruction for the last remaining motor motel along Route 66 in Clinton, the Western Oklahoma Co-Op is now hoping for a chance to preserve this piece of the town’s Route 66 history amidst varying speculation about what will ultimately become of the site.

Arapaho-Butler sets Pre-K sign-up

Arapaho-Butler Elementary School is holding its Pre-K Pre-Enrollment Night from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. March 7 in the school’s cafeteria. Entry eligibility for the Pre-K program maintains that all entrants must be at least 4 years old by Sept. 1, 2024. Principal Brad Southall said since the registration is all online, the cafeteria will be filled with Google Chromebooks and staff on standby to aid parents with enrollment.

PEO awards grant for continuing ed

The PEO (Philanthropic Educational Organization) Sisterhood awarded Libby Castillo with its Oklahoma PEO Program for Continuing Education Grant recently, providing her a supplementary $1,500 to continue her certification classes at Kiamichi Technology Park in Poteau.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A 16-yearold Oklahoma high school student who died a day after an altercation in a school restroom that may have been prompted by bullying over gender identity did not die as a result of injuries sustained in the fight, police said Wednesday.

In 1778, Baron von Steuben joined the U.S. at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to help train the Continental Army.

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