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Hennessey’s town budget for 2022-23 is $100,000 over expected income. Its utilities authority budget is off $80,000, Town Administrator Tiffany Tillman told town trustees at their meeting last Thursday.

Okarche High School Baccalaureate services were held Sunday, May 15, in the OHS gymnasium. Platform guests for the event (pictured above) were, from left: Pastor James Inman of the Okarche First Baptist Church; G. W. Parham, OHS principal; Josh Sumrall, Okarche Public Schools superintendent; Dr.

Nichole Goodson of Kingfisher has been named to Southern New Hampshire University’s Winter 2022 President’s List.Full-time undergraduate students who have earned a minimum grade-point average of 3.700 and above are named to the President’s List.

The Kingfisher Police Department has investigated or responded to the following reports:April 26 - Burglary-second degree (auto).Officer Dustin Brodrick responded to a report of theft in the 1000 block of South 10th Street.

The following traffic accidents are being investigated by the Kingfisher Police Department:April 17, 8:30 p.m. - At 200 W. Starlite Drive.River Harper, 23, Dover, driving a 2013 Ford Focus, was parked in a parking space at Walmart, 200 W. Starlite Drive.

Dover’s biennial all-school reunion on Memorial Day weekend will be an extra special event this year for more than one reason.Due to the pandemic, this year’s alumni gathering is the first in four years.

Kingfisher Creative is honor ing one of its longtime members and supporters at an all-day Festival of the Arts scheduled for June 4.The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Kingfisher County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building.

Hot, dry winds since the early May rainfall has created new problems on the 2022 wheat crop in Kingfisher County.Kingfisher County Extension Director/Agriculture Educator Bryan Kennedy said Monday that some fields are beginning to burn as the grain matures.

Legendary former Kingfisher High School band director Joe Wayne Harper will be inducted into the Kingfisher High School Hall of Fame during the 2022 commencement ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday at the football field.

Two area hospitals were listed among the top 20 highest-ranked critical access hospitals in the country for quality best practices, as determined by the Chartis Center for Rural Health.