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Subfreezing temperatures during the early spring calving season are nothing new for county farmers and ranchers. But a string of more than 11 straight days of below freezing daytime temps plunging to subzero overnight merits that dreaded 2020-21 adjective. Unprecedented.

The frigid and prolonged blast of arctic temperatures combined with heavy snowfall left area residents in the unusual predicament of having to shovel their way out of driveways and sidewalks.

The Hennessey school board accepted a $12,640 interest bid at .395% from First Banker’s Banc Securities on the sale of $1.6 million in taxable building bonds and approved the April bond issuance in a special meeting at noon last Wednesday. Other bidders were BOK Financial Securities (.

Kingfisher County Commissioners Tuesday approved a proclamation designating Feb. 15-19 as Farm Bureau Week in Kingfisher County. In other business, they accepted the low bids submitted by Cummins Equipment Co. on three equipment items.

It never fails. Not five minutes after we sent our final page to our printer and were beyond the point of return, the OSSAA announced major changes to postseason schedules in wrestling, basketball and swimming.

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Only Kingfisher and Okarche voters will have contested municipal seats in the April 6 general election after a Hennessey candidate was disqualified. Rachel Don Rogers, who filed for one of Hennessey’s two open four-year board of trustee seats, was disqualified in a hearing Wednesday, Feb.

[Editor’s Note: Kaci Farrar has authorized the Times & Free Press to announce her candidacy for the Kingfisher City Commission, subject to the April 6 municipal election.

Every place, every person, every church has its own personality and for Jennifer Long it’s about getting to know who that is. As the new minister at Kingfisher First United Methodist Church, Rev. Dr.

The owner of a Hennessey restaurant is asking for the town’s board to allow an event in April that might bring “normalcy” to at least for one night. “Restaurants have had hard times,” local Golden Chick owner Tony Blackburn told Hennessey town board members at their Feb.