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Kingfisher High School’s choir had an eventful - and historic - few weeks in April.Early in the month, choir members took part in the OSSAA’s state choir contest at Stillwater High School.

RETIRED FORMER Kingfi sher County Associate District Judge Robert E. Davis (center) was honored during a luncheon Wednesday. Davis was presented a citation for 50 years of membership in the Oklahoma Bar Association during a Kingfi sher County Bar Association meeting.

When Oklahoma’s Medicaid program was expanded in 2020 to provide welfare benefits to able-bodied adults of working age, it lit the fuse on a financial time bomb that is now threatening to prevent funding for Oklahoma’s school system, state leaders warn.

“Project Hail Mary” is proof.Based upon the novel of the same name by author Andy Weir (who also wrote “The Martian”), the science fiction film released by Amazon MGM Studios has already grossed more than $600 million worldwide, on a $190 million budget.

Those were the words John Reid, my grandfather, told me at his 80th birthday party held on the farm where he raised his family, located three miles north of Altus, Oklahoma on a Saturday in March of 1983.Granddad didn’t quite make it to his 89th birthday.

At 76, Bridget Keast can often be seen scooting around her beloved town of Kingfisher – an unexpected but fitting symbol of a career defined by independence, curiosity and a willingness to try something new.

A juvenile is in custody and potentially facing multiple charges after allegedly attempting to elude police in a stolen vehicle and starting a chase that led to a collision with a sheriff’s vehicle late Saturday night on Main Street in Kingfisher.Kingfisher County Sheriff’s Sgt.

Students and teachers were back in school Tuesday morning at Gilmour Elementary.While normally that’s not newsworthy in late April, it wasn’t the case for most of Monday.

Kingfisher County commissioners approved several actions (memoranda of understanding) paving the way for a recently created Kingfisher County Criminal Justice Authority to take operation of the county jail, Monday at their weekly meeting.

Members of the Kingfi sher Board of Education met for just over four hours to evaluate the district’s superintendent on Monday evening, about three months after his initial evaluation of the calendar year.