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Gilmour Elementary School recognizes students for every 250,000 words read throughout the school year. The most recent students recognized for surpassing the 250,000 word mark were, from left, second graders Rylee Inskeep, Ashley Gutierrez and Ren Aadalen. [Photo provided]

Okarche Elementary School recently announced students who made the honor rolls for the second semester of 2020-21.

Gilmour Elementary School honored several students as April 2021 Great Expectations Citizenship Award winners.

Heather Jones, right, volunteer coordinator for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) For Children for Kingfisher, Blaine, Woodward and Garfield counties, was the guest speaker of the Kingfisher Rotary club last week.

KINGFISHER MEMORIAL Library’s summer reading program takes off with a bang this week, and with an ambitious daily schedule of activities for the next two months that allows parents and kids to pick and choose their attendance days.

Speeding 16-20 mph Over Limit ($227 fine), Improper Passing ($197), Failure to Stop at Stop Sign ($197), Failure to Yield to Emergency Vehicle ($265) and Expired Driver License ($146) — Karla J. Bullock, Hennessey. Speeding (1-10 Over) — Colby W.

May 26 — Officer Matthew Bruner was running radar at West Jack Choate Avenue and Cemetery Road facing east into town at 11:22 p.m. when he saw a pickup truck followed by a gray car both traveling at high rates of speed, according to his report.

Kingfisher’s Emily Sanders was recently announced as one of the select recipients of the Chancellor Hans Brisch Scholarship. The $2,000 scholarship is awarded by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.

Okarche Schools honored junior high and high school students May 14 at an awards assembly.

Devon Energy Corp. (NYSE: DVN) is celebrating its ‘golden’ anniversary this month after 50 years in the oil and gas industry.