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Read moreOctober is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) awareness month and for the first time since 2016, the American Academy of Pediatrics has released an updated set of recommendations for reducing infant sleep-related deaths.
Read moreFormer Hawaii congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday said she’s leaving the Democratic Party because it is “under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven by cowardly wokeness.”
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Area fracking operation shut down indefinitely, OCC spokesman says
Read moreOctober sales tax receipts were higher for most Kingfisher County towns and Kingfisher County itself, according the monthly sales tax report from the Oklahoma Tax Commission.
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With demolition looming for the 86-year-old Kingfisher County Jail, county employees have been working to preserve its historic – and surprisingly artistic – elements. Among them is this gallery of six-foot-tall pencil sketches drawn on metal plates above the bunks in the jail cells and along a walkway outside a common cell known as the “day room.” Sheriff Dennis Banther said these drawings are fairly recent, the work of former inmate Tirador Dewayne Pratt, 30, of Kingfisher, who was incarcerated for several months in 2021. The steel plates are too massive for the artwork to be safely cut out and removed, but photos of the images may be reproduced and displayed elsewhere. Another mural downstairs (not pictured) drawn by well known Kingfisher artist and jail trustee Virgil Quick will be removed before the demolition, slated to begin after Oct. 17. Located south of the courthouse, the jail was built in 1936 as a Works Progress Administration project at a cost of $5,802 and served the county for more than 80 years until the new Kingfisher County Criminal Justice Center was constructed on Victory Road south of town. County Commissioner Heath Dobrovolny said Jackson Wrecking of Enid, the company awarded the demolition contract with a low bid of $75,000, sent personnel to the building two weeks ago for a walk around to plan the demolition process. Dobrovolny estimates the demolition, which will begin with cleaning out remaining trash and salvaging materials such as the aluminum security screens on the south and west sides, may take four to five weeks. The county also hopes to salvage a time capsule buried in the wall of the building during construction, once its exact location is identified, he said. [Photos Provided]
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Dobrovolny, Lunsford, Jenkins awarded by Oklahoma City Community Foundation
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Kingfisher Junior High names August Students of the Month
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