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A 26-year-old Hennessey man remains jailed on $100,000 bond on a charge of felony child abuse for alleged injuries to his three-month-old son. Oscar Daniel Estrada-Morales, 719 S. Bonita, pleaded not guilty to the charge March 17 in Kingfisher County District Court.

The Kingfisher Police Department has investigated or responded to the following reports: Feb. 26 - Driving with license canceled/suspended/revoked.

Oklahoma’s State FFA degree winners include 16 Kingfisher County students who will be recognized at the state convention April 27 and 28.

It was a day like any other...until it wasn’t. That day in early November 2020, Wade McDonald “rose with the chickens,” as his mother Mandy would say, most likely had breakfast at his favorite Kingfisher cafe and headed to work.

Starting Monday, every state resident age 16 and older is eligible to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, the state health department announced last week. Anyone age 16 and over may receive the Pfizer vaccine, while recipients of the Johnson & Johnson and Moderna vaccines must be age 18 or older.

Sales tax checks for March were lower for Kingfisher County towns as oilfield activity continued to decline. Kingfisher’s sales tax took a big drop as the tax rated dropped from 3.335 % to 3 % . However the percentage of loss per penny of tax fell only 21.1 percent.

Voters will go to the polls April 6 to select candidates for a number of local offices. Kingfisher County voters will have a say in a number of board of education seats, including Kingfisher, Dover, Cashion, Crescent, Piedmont, Cimarron, Covington-Douglas and the Canadian Valley Technology Center.

One of the guests at a recent Kingfisher Lions Club meeting had a comforting effect on the otherwise boisterous group. And it’s by design. Miriam, a trained comfort dog, was one of the guests during a meeting earlier this month.

The following traffic accident is being investigated by the Kingfisher Police Department: March 11, 8:50 a.m. - At U.S. 81 and East Starlite Drive. Joel Dettweiler, 61, Kingfisher, driving a 2015 Honda CRV, was westbound on East Starlite Drive and stopped at the intersection of U.S. 81.

Chances are, if you saw Charles Lewallen in the 1980s or 1990s, his son Kevin was his sidekick. Hunting. Fishing. Scouting. Basketball. It didn’t matter...Kevin was there. “Never one time when I asked him did he tell me I couldn’t go with him,” Kevin Lewallen said.