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The executive director of the state Department of Commerce said Thursday that he and his staff can’t create jobs in Oklahoma.“That’s not something we can do,” Brent Kisling told Kingfisher Lions Club members as guest speaker last Thursday.

Just as the shock started to wear off from skyrocketing gas pump and grocery store prices, Kingfisher electric customers opened their August utility bills.“Dude! I’m gonna need a third job for this! What is going on!” one Kingfisher resident wrote on Facebook above a photo of her $579.

August’s heat and drought appeared ferocious at first, with widespread triple- digit temperatures and moisture deficits throughout the first half of the month.A strong cold front signaled a pattern change, however, and the heat settled into more seasonable levels for the last half of the month.

The Kingfisher County Retired Educators Association will host its first meeting of the new school year on Wednesday, Sept. 7.The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. at the Kingfisher Memorial Library, 505 W. Will Rogers Drive.

Independent Journalism CenterReports of a teacher shortage in Oklahoma have often intimated the problem is one largely driven by Oklahoma-specific factors.But the head of the state’s college system suggests that is not the case and that all states are seeing a reduction in the number of teachers.

Phone: 405-724-2464 Members of the Senate took a strong stand against legislative self-dealing by rejecting a House effort to quietly boost retirement benefits for state politicians, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs President Jonathan Small said.

Members of the Hennessey Police Department recently filed the following reports: Breaking and entering – Daniel Keltner reported at 5:25 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, that he saw an unknown man leaving the side door of his mobile on Turkey Creek Drive while he was unlocking the front door.

Rain clouds teased the county Wednesday and Thursday, but failed to produce the substantial rainfall pastures and crops need.Local Weather Observer Steve Loftis recorded .07 inch of rain Friday morning from Thursday’s showers at the National Weather Service Station in Kingfi sher.

When Blake Callaham decided to follow his lifelong goal of completing his bachelor’s degree 15 years ago, he expected support from his employer, Pioneer Telephone Cooperative.What he did not expect was a phone call from the cooperative’s general manager.