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Kingfisher Junior High Principal Stuart Purintun has announced the school’s Students of the Month for March 2023.

Kingfisher Heritage Principal Shane Hood has announced the school’s Students of the Month for March 2023.

GILMOUR ELEMENTARY Principal Makylah Tollefson has announced the school’s Good Bee-havior Students of the Week for the week ending March 31.

One of the leaders of Oklahoma Boys State addressed the Kingfi sher Lions Club during a recent meeting. Local attorney Jared Harrison, left, is a KHS graduate who serves as the chief operating offi cer for “the week that shapes a lifetime.

Former District 3 Kingfisher County Commissioner Keith Schroder, who retired in 2019 after serving 20 years in the position received a lasting honor at Monday’s weekly meeting.

Kingfisher’s city commission is whole once again.Dawn Terrell and Debbie Burpo took oaths of office to fill empty seats during the regular April meeting of the city commission.Both Terrell and Burpo ran unopposed during the most recent filing period.

Kingfisher received a small bit of drought relief on Sunday and Monday, but it came at a price.The city’s weather observer, Steve Loftis, reported .17 inch of rain on Easter Sunday.That was followed by another .35 inch early Monday evening.

Stacy (Grimes) Cline of Hennessey was elected to a three-year term on the Pioneer Telephone Cooperative Board of Trustees Friday night, April 7, at the county fairgrounds.She will serve as the board’s at-large member and replace long-time trustee Linda Dich Randall of Omega, who resigned.

The people of Oklahoma oil and natural gas are investing in the state and local communities at record levels, contributing more than $2.5 billion in total taxes and an estimated $800 million directly to education in the fiscal year 2022.

Two high school, two middle school and one elementary school teacher were hired for the 2023-24 school year at noon Monday by Hennessey Board of Education members.New High School Teachers Brian J.