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After repeating as champs in their respective districts last year, the Borden County Coyotes and Klondike Cougars will kick off the 2022 football season with high expectations.

Local agent Jeannie Coor and her staff celebrated State Farm’s 100th year as an insurance provider with an array of customer appreciation activities this past Thursday.

A dozen students were given clues on how to escape from the Bermuda Triangle – at least on paper – during the Dawson County Public Library’s latest adventure as part of its Summer Reading Club program. Students utilized a compass, disentangled letters to make a secret word, and used other nautical sources of knowledge to fi nd their way out of the Bermuda Triangle, an area bordering Florida and extending into the open Atlantic Ocean. All the students solved the clues and successfully made their way out of the triangle. LPR photo

■On July 9, 1777, New York elects Brigadier Gen. George Clinton as the first governor of the independent state of New York. Clinton would go on to become New York’s longest-serving governor, as well as the longest-serving governor in the U.S., holding the post until 1795.