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Kingfisher County Court Clerk Lisa Markus issued marriage licenses recently to the following couples: June 9: Shaun Koleton Scheurer, 19, and Ximena Salomon, 18, both of Hinton.June 13: Monico Saul Hernandez Quezada, 44, and Martina Gabriela Jaquez, 43, both of Hennessey.Anthony L.

The Oklahoma Broadband Office (OBO) has been notified it will receive $797.4 million in federal grant funds to expand the state’s broadband infrastructure to provide high-speed internet access statewide.Mike Sanders of Kingfi sher serves as the executive director of the OBO.

Though it is currently summer break for countless students across the county, school is still heavily on administrators’ minds.One administrator in particular is very excited about the upcoming term.

Kingfisher doesn’t yet have its new city manager.Commissioners on Monday tabled an item calling for the hiring of that position at the end of their special meeting.

Despite numerous upgrades across the district, Kingfisher Public Schools’ financial picture looks much the same.The board of education on Monday night held its final meeting of the 2022-23 fiscal year.Board members reviewed the district’s financials as the end of the fiscal year approaches.

( Ed. note: Our intern, Katon Lunsford, has returned from her study abroad trip to Zimbabwe. She will chronicle her trip in detail in later editions, but in this first report, Lunsford explains the lasting impression left upon her by the people she came across.)Exuberant joy. Community. Hope. Drive.

Hennessey’s Board of Trustees will discuss hiring an interim administrator in an executive session during a 5:30 p.m. special meeting Tuesday, June 27, at Town Hall.

Phaseoneofalong-awaited pavilion in downtown Hennessey was approved by the town board last week.Thanks to donations of more land and construction work totaling $90,000, it will cost the town $49,900 to get the pavilion frame erected in the multi-phase project.

An event in Colorado prompted a road trip for a Kingfisher man and his two sons.The event was a car show and a cruise through the mountains west of Monte Vista.The road trippers were Chuck Henderson and his sons Kris and Kurt.

Kingfisher County had 57 cases of child neglect and abuse recorded in 2022, with approximately 85% of those stemming from parental substance abuse and mental health issues, Kingfisher Rotary members were told last week.