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The 2024 Kingfisher County Fair floriculture results have been announced. Results are listed in order of placing unless otherwise indicated.

The 2024 Kingfisher County Fair canning results have been announced. Results are listed in order of placing unless otherwise indicated.

The Kingfisher Police Department has investigated or responded to the following reports:September 4 - No valid driver’s license, transporting intoxicating beverage or low-point beer and operate/APC vehicle under the influence of intoxicating substance.

The Justice Department’s top watchdog and a successful FBI whistleblower took questions Wednesday from a House panel investigating the weaponization of government.

U.S. Sen. James Lankford will visit Kingfisher Tuesday for a “community conversation.”The event will begin at 9 a.m. upstairs at Pioneer Telephone’s Engineering Conference Center, 315 East Robberts Avenue.

Board of education members gathered for nearly five hours Monday night as they began their search for an interim superintendent.All but the opening and adjournment of the special meeting were spent in executive session as board members interviewed two potential candidates.

The Kingfisher High School Student Council has been planning diligently for the 2024 homecoming festivities.Homecoming this year will be Friday, Oct. 4.The theme is “Party In The Hive” and will be America-themed.The homecoming coronation will be held during a ceremony at 6:30 p.m.

Welcome showers covered Kingfisher County on Sunday, providing up to .88 inch of moisture over a three-day period, according to the Mesonet station on the Mueggenborg farm immediately west of Kingfisher.Local Weather Observer Steven Loftis reported .

Emmanuel Lutheran Church is hosting a meetand- greet for its new comfort dog.People will have their chance to meet Bailey from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, at the church.Bailey is a 3 1/2 yearold female golden retriever now serving as the church’s comfort dog as part of its outreach ministry.

A fire west of Hennessey at about 4 p.m. Saturday was caused by “blown fuses on OG&E lines after a trackhoe two miles away had hit a power line,” Hennessey Fire Chief Brandon Scott told the KT&FP Monday afternoon.Scott said the fire at the Hawk Farm destroyed 15 acres and 22 hay bales.