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Kingfisher Chamber of Commerce Director Shauna Rupp (not pictured) discussed upcoming chamber events with Kingfisher Lions Club members on Thursday. Chief among them was the events taking place in town on July 4. That includes the downtown parade at 10 a.m.

Hotly contested primary races wrap up soon with the start of early voting on Thursday.Early voting for the June 28 primary election begins Thursday morning at the Kingfisher County Election Board inside the county courthouse.

It was down to the final two…Waiting in anticipation to see who would be crowned Miss Oklahoma 2022, Kingfisher’s own Emily Faith stood sideby-side with one of her closest friends, Megan Gold.

It has been dubbed “The week that shapes a lifetime.”Surrounded by many dedicated volunteers, more than 250 high school juniors, including seven Kingfisher County delegates, gathered Memorial Day weekend on the Rogers State University campus in Claremore to attend Oklahoma Boys State.

A 22-year-old Geary man was killed Saturday afternoon when his 2018 Honda Civic ran into the back of a John Deere swather south of Greenfield.Patrick Leflore Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene of the 3:30 p.m. accident about eight-tenths of a mile south of Greenfield on U.S.

Kingfisher Community Collaborative announced that June 30 is the deadline for qualifying county families to apply for free school supplies for their children in grades pre-K through high school.Applications are available at Kingfisher City Hall or online at https://bit.ly/ 2022SupplyDrive.

More than two dozen local students have been inching closer to their driver’s licenses this summer. Twenty-eight have been taking part in driver’s education courses offered in Kingfisher. The courses are taught by Doug Jech and T.J. Harris.

The OERB hosted a first responder training workshop at the OSU Fire Service Training Center in Stillwa-ter to educate firefighters about the best practices in developing a response plan for oil and natural gas sites.

(Ed. note: A quartet of travelers from Kingfisher - Brian and Liz Walter and Chris and Tanya Cameron - recently ventured to Ireland.

MAKING CONNECTIONS – Pioneer Telephone Cooperative played host to and its incoming general manager was the keynote speaker during the Kingfisher Chamber of Commerce’s BIZConnect luncheon last week. Blake Callaham, center, addressed the group of chamber members at Pioneer’s Engineering Building.