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Tucker Williams’ day started with a major headache.It ended with a massive handshake.The former brought with it a lesson learned for the Kingfisher High School freshman.The latter earned him a banner, a belt buckle and some perspective.“I have to work even harder now,” he said.

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The Long Term Care Authority of Enid Area Agency on Aging has announced the availability of Older Americans Act funds.The funds are for legally formed public, private or notfor- profit organizations in the counties of Alfalfa, Blaine, Garfi eld, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Major and Noble.

Eight Kingfisher High School seniors were guests recently at a meeting of the Kingfisher Rotary Club.Joining the local civic group were Natalie Ellis, Madelyn Takape, Achilles Branson, JW Struck, Chase Honea, Evan Staples, Brody Boden and Cherith Stephenson.

Dominic Bell of Millennium Roofing & Construction was the featured speaker at a recent meeting of the Kingfisher Lions Club. A Dover native, Bell gave Lions a brief history of Millennium, which was started by another Dover native, Jeremy Lack, in 2008 in Norman.

Gilmour Elementary School has announced its Good BEE-havior Students of the Week for the week ending Feb. 16.

Things are quite busy at the state Capitol now that we’re at the end of week three of the legislative session. We have one more week of committee work, and then we will be racing to hear legislation on the House floor in advance of the third-reading deadline for bills in their chamber of origin.

Last week, Russian political activist and dissident Alexei Navalny died in a Siberian prison camp, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for what most observers agree were specious, purely politically motivated convictions.

What happens after the caregiving ends? You may feel guilty. You are probably grieving and you are feeling alone. They took up most of your time and now how do you deal with the after?For family caregivers, some mourning styles seem more helpful than others.

Four Kingfisher County towns received larger sales tax checks in February than in February 2023 – Hennessey, Cashion, Okarche and Dover.