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Canadian County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Shirley Lanning, 58, died in a two-car accident Friday, Feb. 14, on Northwest Expressway.
Read moreAs agricultural markets respond anxiously to China’s attempts to control its coronavirus outbreak with a countrywide quarantine, economists are urging patience.
Read moreCounty Treasurer Robin Rother reports that 61.8 percent of the county’s 2019 ad valorem tax has been paid.
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NORTH SIDE VIEW of the proposed Dover Elementary School, with the existing high school gym at the right of the frame. [Rendering Courtesy Roy Easley & Associates]
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ANOTHER VIEW of the lighted marquee sign installed last week on Hennessey Public School’s Eagle Event Center (see related photos on Page 1). The two-story facility includes a basketball court, four locker rooms, training rooms, coaching and administrative offices. Hennessey United board members recently toured the facility, which also will serve as a safe room for all school students and the community. The doors to the building will automatically open when there is a tornado alert, Jack Quirk told board members. United members on the tour were Stacy Cline (president), Teresa Oliver (vice president), Tammy Henderson (treasurer), Cathy Howard (secretary), Dagan Hardin, Kaden Mitchell, Mariana Gonzalez and Barb Walter. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo by Barb Walter]
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While the $16.5 million price tag is intimidating at first glance, Dover Supt. Max Thomas said most of the cost of a proposed new elementary school will be borne by industry, rather than individual property owners.
Read moreKokojan was a 1945 Hennessey High School graduate who died June 4, 2018.
Read moreNow it looks like mid- March before Kingfisher’s latest Oklahoma Department of Transportation construction project will begin, due to contractor scheduling.
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