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Kingfisher County paid just over $20,000 to have a portion of its bridges inspected this quarter. Commissioners at their weekly meeting Monday approved an invoice totaling $20,600 for this round of inspections on 81 bridges.

Kingfisher Police Department has investigated or responded to the following reports: July 15 - Malicious injury/destruction of property. Officer Dustin Brodrick responded to a report of property damage at the Church of the Nazarene, 414 W. Hill Drive.

As promised, we return to printing and delivering our Sunday newspaper this coming Sunday, August 1. 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.

After squeaking in its last production just before the growing pandemic called a halt to live theater, Kingfisher Creative Inc. is coming out of quarantine this week with its latest comedic offering.

A TV meteorologist who was born in Kingfisher will be the featured reader at the final Summer Lantern of 2021. Damien Lodes, a meteorologist at KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, will read to students and their families on the front lawn of Gilmour Elementary school at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 27.

In accordance with a new state law, certain utility vehicles can be titled, tagged and driven on city streets and state highways.

Kingfisher Community Collaborative is recruiting volunteers to participate in a two-week, smartphone-based research study to identify how, why and in what contexts rural Oklahomans use tobacco or other substances. Sponsored by the American Cancer Society, the study is being conducted by Dr.

Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s 66th annual band camp recently attracted nearly 500 students from three states to the Weatherford campus for Oklahoma’s oldest and longest-running band camp.

The Kingfisher Police Department has investigated or responded to the following reports: June 27 - Domestic abuse assault and battery. Officer Tyler Girten took a report of an assault in the 600 block of West Bowman Avenue. July 8 - Cruelty to animals.

The Times & Free Press in the next several editions is publishing Students of the Month for Heritage Elementary School for the 2020-21 school year. Listed in this edition are the students who were honored in January 2021.