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A white 2020 Ford Police Interceptor hybrid utility vehicle will be delivered to the Hennessey Police Department in about a month. “The battery is guaranteed for eight years,” Acting Police Chief Ed Cangiano told the Hennessey town board before members approved the $46,046 purchase Thursday night.

The Kingfisher Study Club met Oct. 6 at the First United Methodist Church. This session’s hostess, Gerri Plummer, served maple donuts and coffee in the fellowship hall, which was decorated with fall items. President Melda Fischer opened the meeting with an inspirational fall reading.

Oklahoma Energy Resources Board presented Kingfisher Public Schools with a check for $2,000 during the recent high school football game at Bridge Creek.

House Majority Leader Mike Sanders, R-Kingfisher, received a perfect score from the non-partisan Research Institute for Economic Development (RIED) organization in its annual report.

The following is an absolutely true story and it happened to me. I am currently in a skilled nursing unit and unable to go and vote by the regular method. I had an absentee ballot mailed to me and got ready to get it back to the election board. I needed two stamps to send it.

Cashion never could fully put Stillwater JV away. But Stillwater never could fully stop Caden Harrell. The Pioneers got a heavy dose of the Cashion senior Thursday as he lifted Cashion to a 40-27 road win.

Kingfisher’s seventh graders lost a heartbreaker in their final home football game of the season. Newcastle scored on a 45-yard run with about 10 seconds to play to pull out a 24-22 victory over the Jackets. “The kids played hard and never gave up,” cocoach Doug Jech said.

Oklahoma Press Association — Two state questions will appear on the November 3 general election ballot. State Question 805 was placed on the ballot by gathering signatures from citizens; State Question 814 was referred to a vote of the people by the Oklahoma Legislature.

Officially the second oldest living Oklahoman by less than two months, Christine Phillips still remembers the Spanish Flu, which devastated Kingfisher County when she was 9 years old. This year, Mrs.

After a poll of the senior class, the Kingfisher Board of Education on Monday night agreed to change the date of this year’s high school graduation.The board voted unanimously at its regular October meeting to change the date to Saturday, May 22, 2021.