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Gilmour Elementary School announced its Great Expectations Citizenship Award winners for March 2021 during Jacket Roundup on March 26. Selected for the award were, from left: front row, kindergarten students Samantha Perez, Tucker Eastabrook, Brooks Bollenbach, Keith Rother and Alondra Davila; middle row, first graders Cadence Diehl, Waylon Loper, Bryson Granata, Hunter Voth and Lux Jackson; and back row, second graders Olivia Clayton, Jake Finley, Brenna Hauser, Geraldine Cuellar, Owen Kennedy and Lexys Nail. The focus for March was the character trait of trustworthiness. Teachers were encouraged to choose students exemplifying this trait throughout the month. [Photo provided]
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Meats, livestock, agronomy, floriculture, and public speaking have been added to the list of events the Dover FFA members have recently competed in.
Read moreApril 16 is the last day to apply for voter registration in order to be eligible to vote in the May 11 special election in Kingfisher, said County Election Board Secretary Shawna Butts.
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Kingfisher High School seniors Prairie Kaya and Maverick Ridenour have been named the Junior Lions for April 2021.
Read moreVoters in Kingfisher County who want to have absentee ballots mailed to them for the May 11 special election regarding a sales tax in Kingfisher should apply now, Kingfisher County Election Board Secretary Shawna Butts said.
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The winners for the 25th annual Kingfisher County essay contest hosted by the Theta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority have been announced. Winners for the eighth grade level were Okarche students Brenna Crider (1st), Kylie Harper (2nd) and Katy Creswell (3rd). Seventh grade winners were Okarche students Jaici Easton (1st), Ethan Kirby (2nd) and Addison Mingus (3rd). The seventh and eighth grade English teachers are Lynda! Westmoreland and Traci Fuller. The first place winners advance to the state level competition. Pictured with their certificates are, from left: Brenna Crider, Kylie Harper, Addison Mingus, Jaici Easton and Katy Creswell. Ethan Kirby is not pictured. /Photo provided]
Read moreKingfisher’s board of education will have a short, but busy and productive agenda Thursday when it gathers for a special meeting.
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HENNESSEY BOARD OF EDUCATION members for 2021-22 are, from left: Dr. James Matousek, president; Luke Lough, vice-president; Patrick Griffin, clerk; Cristopher Choate, and David Tillman. Now here’s the saga about how only one board member moved up a chair at Monday night’s meeting during the usual yearly rotation of officers. Matousek, whose board term expired this month, was re-elected president. That was after the three holdover board members (Lough, Choate and Griffin), and new member Tillman, went into closed session to discuss who they’d appoint to the board. The board voted 3-1 in open session to appoint Matousek to the board with Tillman casting the ‘no’ vote. Then Matousek was elected president after he abstained and the other four voted him in. Lough, who was elected vice president March 31 to replace Joe Garrison whose ill health caused him to resign as vice-president, was re-elected vice president Monday night. Then Griffin was appointed clerk, and he was the only member who got to move up one chair that night. Both Matousek and Tillman took the oath of office during the meeting with Matousek for the one-year term remaining on Garrison’s term, and Tillman started his five-year-term. More board meeting news will appear in the weekend edition. [Photo by Barb Walter]
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