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The start of school means the resumption of school zones throughout the county. Kingfisher Police Department’s Dustin Brodrick stands near the beginning of one such zone on 13th Street between Gilmour Elementary and Kingfisher High School.

Hennessey school board members discussed the purchase of an undisclosed property in a 15-minute executive session during their Monday night meeting.

FFA LEADERSHIP CAMP – Oklahoma FFA held its annual Alumni Leadership camp July 7-10 at camp Tulakogee in Wagoner. Dover FFA’s Wesley Butler, left, and Pedro Valles attended the camp, which consisted of a water olympics and a ropes course focusing on how to build leadership skills.

Southwestern Oklahoma State University at Weatherford, Sayre and Yukon has announced both the President’s and Dean’s Honor Rolls for the 2021 summer semester. An undergraduate student who earns all A’s in six or more hours during the summer semester qualifies for the President’s Honor Roll.

As promised, we are back up and running with our print and digital publications of two issues per week. We have stressed to all that the COVID-19 disruption of business hit us extremely hard. For instance, you will notice in this newspaper that there are zero pre-printed inserts.

When Okarche elementary school students return to the classroom this week, their classmates have a big surprise awaiting their arrival.

Kingfisher city commissioners continued to discuss possible sites for the new fire station at their regular August meeting Monday night.

A new rodeo queen and princess will be crowned this weekend at the 64th Kingfisher Rodeo sponsored by the Kingfisher Roundup Club. Candidates for 2021 Kingfisher Roundup Club rodeo queen are Hayley May and Adriana Gonzalez. Princess contestants are Kayci Jo Harrison and Kenzley Mendel.

It’s a brand new school year across Kingfisher County and the rest of Oklahoma. With the “new” year comes its share of plenty “new” at every school in the county. New clothes. New rides. New hairdo. That’s for the teachers, anyway (ok, ok students too).

The University of Central Oklahoma Jackson College of Graduate Studies (JCGS) recently named 18 graduate students to the 2021-22 Graduate Student Advisory Board (GSAB).