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Several Okarche 4-H members made the premium sale recently at the Kingfisher County Livestock show.

Flowers & VegetablesCultivate annual flower and vegetable planting beds to destroy winter weeds.Apply mulch to control weeds in beds. Landscape fabric barrier can reduce the amount of mulch but can dry out and prevent water penetration. Thus, organic litter makes the best mulch.

Kingfisher’s board of education had one of its more routine meetings in months when it gathered Monday.Members met for 53 minutes for its regular March meeting, a bulk of which was spent on non-action items.

Daylight Saving Time returns to Kingfisher County and most of the nation at 2 a.m. Sunday.DST originated in the U.S. on the theory that it would save energy.When the sun sets later, it’s presumed people will stay outside later, thereby using less electricity for lights and appliances.

The artistic talents of the county’s youth will be on full display this week.The 73 rd annual Kingfisher County Fine Arts Festival takes place Tuesday and Wednesday in Kingfisher, after a two-year hiatus during the pandemic.

Kingfisher High School is requesting nominations for the 2022 KHS Hall of Fame inductees.Created in 1986 to honor the achievements of past graduates, the Hall of Fame will induct up to four new members each year, including either KHS graduates or administrators or faculty.

Pastor Debbie Burpo of Frontline Ministries will be this Wednesday’s speaker in the Kingfisher Ministerial Alliance Lenten Luncheon series.The series kicked off last week on Ash Wednesday, with the Rev. Dr. Jennifer Long of the First United Methodist Church as speaker.

BASKETBALL (AND NEWSPAPER) FANS — They might not have liked the result on the scoreboard, but these Okarche Elementary School students were able to get in some good reading Friday at State Fair Arena.

With a string of high 70s and low 80s days, we may have already forgotten that mild March was preceded by wild February.

Kingfisher residents are mourning the death last week of former citizen of the year and volunteer of the year Scott Osborn.Social media has been flooded with photos and memories of the local entrepreneur, downtown promoter and perennial volunteer, who died Tuesday at age 53.