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Given this year’s circumstances, the Hennessey FFA and Ag Boosters feel very fortunate to have been able to host the annual FFA Calf Fry and Labor Auction. It was a safe, socially distanced gathering of FFA members and Alumni, community members, Oklahoma senators and representatives.

The Oklahoma House of Representatives outlined COVID-19 precautions for the high school page program.

The winter storm that began the year captured January’s biggest weather headline. The event straddled the changeover from 2020 to 2021, with as much as 10 inches of snow falling in Vici on New Year’s Day. Reports of 4-8 inches were widespread across the northwestern half of the state.

About 8 % of American adults reported they had received a COVID-19 vaccination and around half of adults who haven’t (51 %) indicated they would definitely get a vaccine, while an additional 26 % said they probably would, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released this week.

Hennessey Police Department issued the following recent citations: Driving Under Suspension - Abdelkhabir Elarou, Oklahoma City. No Driver License and Speeding 11-15 Over Limit - Orozco Padilla, Kingfisher. Speeding: 11-15 Over Limit- Oscar Daniel Estrada Morales, Portales, N.M.

Kingfisher County closed the books on another tough week, with heartache, struggle and losses, but also notable blessings in equal measure that can only come from a community as supportive as this one in which we are so fortunate to live and work.

More than 30 members of the U.S. House Energy Action Team, including members of Oklahoma’s Congressional delegation, denounced President Joe Biden’s executive order banning new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters. Their statements follow: HEAT Co-Chair, Rep. Markwayne Mullin (ROkla.

Candidates for municipal office in Kingfisher County municipalities may file declarations of candidacy beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, Feb. 1. Shawna Butts, Kingfisher County Election Board secretary, said the filing period ends at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3.

A Crescent woman was killed Jan.19 in a head-on traffic collision on S.H. 33 west of Guthrie, according to an Oklahoma Highway Patrol Report. Barbara Heflin, 79, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 10:32 a.m. two-vehicle crash at S.H.

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