Friend wants to address months-old rift

DEAR HARRIETTE: I had a close friend group in high school that consisted of one group of girls and another group of guys. I maintained good relationships with everyone during my freshman year of college. Last summer, one of my friends and her boyfriend of three years broke up. Her boyfriend did not inform the guys about their relationship troubles, leading many of them to 'choose his side.' As a result, the groups split, which was odd considering that our friendships were separate from my friends' relationship.

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- Stormie Hill wins Ward 3 council seat

- Jacobsons win pet contest

- Expansion discussed at CEDA meeting

- One life blesses others in unique way

- Clinton to face Ada in second round

Jacobsons win pet contest

Ann and Bob Jacobson, of Clinton, were recently crowned winners of the Hill’s Pet Nutrition photo competition featured in a previous issue of the

The Clinton Economic Development Authority discussed plans for a new unnamed food distributor to come to the Clinton Industrial Park with plans in the works for another distributor to come as well after a long executive session over the employment of Economic Development Director Roland Mower resulted in no action taken during a regular meeting Tuesday.

Stormie Hill wins Ward

Stormie Hill will be the next representative of Ward 3 on Clinton’s City Council after steadily defeating incumbent Patch McComas in a 180-56 vote in Tuesday’s election.

In an initial settlement agreement hammered out by the Utility Regulation Unit of the Attorney General’s office, AARP, and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s own Public Utility Division, PSO’s proposed monthly residential increase was reduced from an average of $14 to $3.57, the result of a negotiated cap on the residential increase of 2.5 percent. Despite the agreement, corporation commissioners made several modifications, resulting in a final order that significantly increases residential rates compared to the settlement agreement.

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