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Hennessey’s Board of Trustees will have a “planning meeting” to discuss the future needs of the community next week. The meeting is slated for 9 a.m. Friday, April 10, at Town Hall. This is a date change for the special meeting that was originally scheduled this Thursday.

Union Pacific Railroad is continuing an improvement project that will affect different parts of the county throughout the next week with railroad crossing closings.

A Friday morning hearing in Oklahoma City about a proposed commercial waste site wanting to be located northeast of Hennessey “is being continued (to a later date).” That’s what Mike Maly told the Times & Free Press reporter late Monday afternoon.

Wildfires aren’t the only concern with the recent dry spell. Crops are going backward by the day, County Extension Director/Agricultural Educator Bryan Kennedy observed Thursday.

Dry weather is becoming an increasingly serious concern for Kingfisher County.

Somebody should tell Mullin’s critics that academic credentials ain’t what they used to be. It was William F. Buckley who said, “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.” That was in the late 1950s.

In recent years, the State of Oklahoma has engaged in business-subsidy bidding wars with other states, trying to land so-called “mega” projects. In those competitions, Oklahoma has generally fallen short, despite offering hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to individual businesses.

Kimberly Wageman-Prack, executive director of The Chisholm museum in Kingfisher, was guest speaker at the March meeting of the Kingfisher County Retired Educators Association. The meeting featured the theme “Hats Off to Teachers!