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Officers and board members of the Kingfisher County Retired Educators Association (KCREA) met this summer in the home of Donna Jech to work on plans for the coming year. Pictured at the meeting are, from left, Terri Peck, Jech, Dana Golbek, Nancy Teders, Cathy Howard and Kathy Kadavy. All retired educators and support personnel are welcome and encouraged to join the association. Officers for the 2022-23 year include Teders, Howard, Golbek and Jech. Other board members are Peck and Florene Tipton. The purpose of the association is to promote the interests and welfare of retired educators, to maintain retired educators’ identity with the education profession, to enhance the image of retired educators and to participate in educational and community activities. The group awards a scholarship annually to a county college student majoring in education. This year’s recipients was Jill Newer of Kingfisher. The next meeting will be held 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7, at Kingfisher Memorial Library. For more information, contact Tipton or any board member. [Photo provided]
Read moreSample ballots are now available for the June 28 primary election.
Read moreThe University of Oklahoma announced today the students named to its spring 2022 honor roll, a distinction given to those who achieve the highest academic standards.
Read moreDuring their regular June meeting Monday in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation commissioners approved additional opportunities to harvest antlerless deer and approved hunting season dates and bag limits for this year’s migratory bird hunting seasons.
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A $3,500 feasibility study of Hennessey’s current 94-year-old public library was approved by the newly-appointed Library Building Committee last Wednesday morning. Chairman Jack Quirk suggested to Richard Simunek, town board trustee and committee member, that Simunek pay half of the study fee, if the town paid the other half. Simunek agreed and Town Administrator Tiffany Tillman, also a library committee member, said she could approve that amount. Quirk said CWA Group in Norman is the company that gave him the quote and Quirk told the committee that the company could also do “as-built drawings with a full set of prints for $10,000.” Quirk also asked Simunek in the meeting if he’d give his $3.3 million donation to the library now, instead of upon his death. “No,” said Simunek. “Absolutely not.” Simunek, a local preservationist, wants those funds to go to the library for future upkeep and needs. Quirk said that would also be helpful to others who might want to donate to a new, or refurbished library. The new committee met in the History Center at the library. Pictured are (from left) committee members Tillman, Town Trustee David Jones, Library Board President Ann Taylor, Simunek and Quirk. In the audience during the one-hour meeting were Library Director Lindsey Kopsa and Friends of the Library member Cathie (Cline) Arnold. Three others in the audience were Joyce Thomas, Barbara Platt and Ruth Ann Hobbs. [KT&FP photo by Barb Walter]
Read moreThe Town of Hennessey’s current expenses for 2021-22 are expected to be almost $3.7 million, but the budget for the 2022-23 fiscal year is $4.7 million.
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I often wonder what my wife was like when she was the same age as our teenage daughter is now.
Read moreA driver who led Oklahoma Highway Patrol on a high-speed chase southwest of Hennessey was arrested after his vehicle struck a deer and then caught fire Friday.
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