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Kingfisher County commissioners took note of two special events Monday at their weekly meeting.They were a proclamation of Farm Bureau Week Monday through Friday and Child Abuse Prevention Month in April.

In Oklahoma, it’s that awesome time of year again.For more than six decades, Darryl Starbird’s National Rod & Custom Car Show has stood as a defining event in American car culture, and in 2026 the legendary showcase returns to Tulsa with renewed energy and a fresh vision for the future.

All four Hennessey building principals and the assistant high and middle school principal were rehired for the 2026-27 school year by the Hennessey Board of Education.

Twenty Northwestern Oklahoma State University senior education students recently began their student teaching assignments at local schools to gain critical hands-on experience.

Kingfisher High School seniors Cashion Laird and Scout Snodgrass are the January 2026 Junior Lions.The two were guests at a recent meeting of the Kingfi sher Lions Club.Laird is the son of Leia and Jackson Price and Spence and Tami Laird.

A total of 9,619 students were named to the 2025 fall semester honor rolls at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, including 4,462 students named to the President’s Honor Roll for earning an A grade in all their courses.

Ten Oklahoma electric cooperative lineworkers spent a week in the Navajo Nation helping bring firsttime electricity to families in the Shiprock, N.M., region.

President Shirley Koons opened the Feb. 3 meeting of the Golden Eagles at the Hennessey Senior Citizen Center with discussions about upcoming Valentine’s Day projects.That included putting together goodie bags and Valentine’s cards for each Hennessey Care Center resident.

Bragging rights are on the line for the 17 cooks (and still counting as of Monday) in the Hennessey Friends of the Library’s annual fundraiser cookoff event this Saturday from 5:30-7 p.m.

In back-to-back days, Kingfi sher Public Schools suspended and then reinstated one of its FFA advisors.Tyler Gradert, an agriculture education teacher and co-FFA advisor for the chapter, was suspended by the district on Monday, pending an investigation.