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Lomega 4-H held its first meeting of 2021 on Jan 6. at the United Methodist Church in Loyal. Club President Saidee Wright called the meeting to order.

Lomega has announced junior high and high school students who earned spots on its honor rolls for the first semester of 2020-21.

Redlands Community College recently announced students named to the college’s honor rolls for the Fall 2020 semester. Students listed on the President’s Honor Rollhave completed 12 or more credit hours and have earned a GPA of not less than 3.

Tulsa’s Discovery Lab is unveiling a new earth science exhibit made possible in partby the people of Oklahoma Oil and Natural Gas.

The principal counsel for taxpayer-funded PBS called for Homeland Security to take away the children of “Republican voters”, cheered a spike in covid deaths in “Red States” and said Americans are “so (blank)ing dumb.

DOWNTOWN WALKABOUT — Masked adventurers from Blair Early Education Center in Kingfi sher stopped for a photo with the similarly masked statues in front of City Hall Monday afternoon on their way to Medic Pharmacy for a treat from the soda fountain.

One Times & Free Press reader said booking an online COVID-19 vaccination appointment right now is about like trying to score a Rolling Stones concert ticket the day they go on sale.

History is silent as to whether legendary Kingfisher figure Apostle Paul Sykes wore a mask or advocated their use during the Spanish flu pandemic of his time, but his likeness in front of Kingfisher City Hall wears one regularly, along with the World War I soldier and little girl in his audience.

Kingfisher County and its four neighboring counties saw a total increase of 501 active COVID-19 cases and 23 deaths in the first two weeks of 2021, according to Oklahoma State Department of Health online statistics.

Governor Kevin Stitt announced Friday that he is activating over 75 members of the Oklahoma National Guard to assist local law enforcement should any protests at the State Capitol or other locations turn violent in the coming week. Members of the guard will be activated from Saturday, Jan.