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Nearly seven dozen Kingfisher Public Schools certified staff were rehired for the 2024-25 school year.About three dozen more will have to wait another month to learn their fate.

Polls will be open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday to decide a number of city and school races in Kingfisher County.In Kingfisher, two seats on the city commission are up for grabs.One is for an unexpired term of one year.The seat is currently held by Kaci Farrar, who is running to again fill that seat.

Ryan Gibson wasn’t going to stand for it.A fireman was late to his shift one morning and Gibson knew he needed to be properly punished.

Since 1947, students have been cultivating and expressing their creative talents at the Kingfisher County Fine Arts Festival and this year is no exception.Celebrating its 75th anniversary, the festival will take place Wednesday and Thursday, April 3-4, at Kingfisher and Hennessey.

( Ed. note: Jeff Wittrock is running for a seat on the Kingfisher City Commission in the Tuesday, April 2, election. He has authorized the Times & Free Press to run the following announcement.)I would like to take a moment to introduce myself and my family to you.

The Kingfisher Chamber of Commerce’s annual city-wide garage sales has been moved into the spring this year.The sales will take place all across Kingfisher Saturday, April 6.

The Hennessey Board of Education unanimously accepted the base bid of $929,859 for the paved football/baseball parking lot project on the east side of Mitchell Road north of Oklahoma Avenue.Hembree and Hodgson Construction LLC of Ponca City won the bid to add 71 paved parking spaces.

The Hennessey Farmerettes, an Oklahoma Home and Community Education (OHCE) organization, met Wednesday, March 13, at the Hennessey First United Methodist Church for its March meeting.Members assembled 18 Easter bunny kits to be distributed to youth participating in a reading program at the library.