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Osborn, Neuman win top honors After a dark and challenging year like no other for local businesses, the Kingfisher Chamber of Commerce presented its top awards to one man who focused on creative pandemic relief and another who kept the lights on for Kingfisher Winter Nights.

Want success? Keep fanning those fl ames Even football superstar Curtis Lofton struggled with burnout from time to time. But he told a hometown crowd at the Kingfisher Chamber Banquet Monday night that the key to success is “finding your fire and then fanning that flame.

A motion to hire head football coach Paul Hix as the 2021-22 athletic/activities director for the Hennessey Public Schools failed in a 3-2 vote Monday night in a crowded room of interested parents and others.

Sheriff Dennis Banther reported a sole source bid from Motorola Solutions of $15,782.07 to relocate the 911 department to the new justice center at the south side of Kingfisher.He said the bid was about double the oral estimate he had received from the company, creating sticker shock on his part.

We’re about a quarter of the way through the legislative session at this point. Out of the 1,987 House bills and joint resolutions filed this session, only 503 - about a quarter - made it out of committee. We have until March 11 to vote on those in the House or they languish until next year.

Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the LORD. Psalm 119:1 Thoughts on Today's Verse — As Christians, we hear this passage a little differently than those who lived under the Torah, the Law of Moses.

COVID-19 caused the cancellation of last year’s Hennessey Wine & Chocolate Festival, but this year’s outdoor event is set for Saturday, Oct. 16.The date for the festival was decided by the Hennessey United Association board of directors Thursday evening.

Kingfisher Middle School band competed in the OSSAA district contest Thursday, March 4, at Putnam City North High School. “Despite COVID restrictions and weather challenges, they earned an ‘excellent’ in concert and a ‘superior’ in sight reading,” said Director Mandy Owens.

The Okarche High School speech team completed qualifying competition for the 2020-21 school year by placing several students in two virtual speech tournaments. During the month of February, OHS speech students competed in the Weatherford and the Crescent invitationals.

Kingfisher High School seniors Karli Karrenbrock and Cayman Matson have been named the March 2021 Junior Lions. The two were at a recent meeting of the civic group. Karrenbrock is the daughter of Kenneth and Alicia Karrenbrock. She is active in FFA, Student Council and drama.