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The Hennessey Police Department recently issued the following citations:Possession of controlled dangerous substance ($1,035) – Sammy Dwain Dudgeon, Corn.Driving under suspension/revocation (second or subsequent offense, $815) – Brian Keith Melton, Hennessey; Sammy Dwain Dudgeon, Corn.

Four Kingfisher County municipalities received increases in their June sales tax checks compared to June 2021, according to the June report released by the Oklahoma Tax Commission.Kingfisher, Hennessey, Cashion and Loyal all showed larger checks than in June 2021.

Two members of the Kingfisher County Excise-Equalization Board – Jim Simmons of Cashion and Jim Shimanek of Hennessey – are retiring effective Thursday, June 30.A reception in their honor will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday in the lobby of the Kingfisher County courthouse.

While Center of Family Love administrators are beyond grateful for the record-setting $2 million-plus in donations collected at this year’s gala, they are more excited about what the money can help them achieve.

Click on nearly any article that pops up in a Google search for “Bettina diFiore” and you’ll know instantly where this prolific journalist stands in the abortion debate.

“We are so far from ‘done’ and it is either terribly naive, or terribly negligent for leaders in the pro-life movement to be taking that stance,” Bettina diFiore said in a follow-up email after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision was released.

ANOTHER REASON TO CELEBRATE — These excited faces at the recent fundraising gala for the Center of Family Love may have been sparked by the fact that the Okarche-based center for intellectually-disabled adults was well on its way to a record-shattering $2.

The U.S. Supreme Court released its highly anticipated decision Friday morning overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark ruling which established a constitutional right to abortion.The 6-3 decision in Dobbs vs.

Kingfisher County registered voters will help decide 11 Republican races and two Democrat races in primary elections ending at 7 p.m. Tuesday.A total of 159 votes had been cast in early, in-person voting as of 1 p.m. Friday.Early voting is available through 6 p.m. Friday and then from 8 a.m. to 2 p.

The harvest rush is over in Kingfisher County, a check of elevators indicated last Monday. Clear days through the last two weeks allowed producers to write “finished” on the 2022 small grain crop.