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Judging results from the 2020 Kingfisher County Free Fair have been announced.

It was halftime of one of the most anticipated Class A matchups of this young football season.

Madelyn Gerken will attempt to become the first Kingfisher FFA alumni in two decades to become a National FFA officer. The 2018 Kingfisher High School graduate was recently nominated by the Oklahoma FFA Association to represent the state in the national competition.

How many confirmed cases of COVID-19 does it take to disrupt a high school’s football season and shut down the program? “Exactly two – one infected player in each program,” Hennessey Public School Superintendent Dr. Mike Woods said.

Four positive tests and a number of others affected by contact tracing led Lomega to move to its distance learning plan for at least one week. The district announced Thursday that it would move to distance learning beginning the next day and will continue throughout this week.

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission reminds residential and business phone customers served by the 405 area code to prepare for the introduction of the new 572 area code.The 572 area code will be added as an overlay to the 405 region to ensure a continuing supply of telephone numbers for the area.

Weather permitting, construction work on S.H. 33 from Main Street to Sixth Street will be wrapped up this week, according to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.The last phase of the project, resurfacing from Sixth Street east to Second Street, is expected to begin Oct.

Hennessey’s town board voted to spend up to $10,000 to make repairs on a collapsed sewer line at Fourth and Main street near the funeral home. Members took the action in an emergency meeting the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Town Hall.

Associate District Judge Lance Schneiter was the guest speaker at a recent meeting of the Kingfisher Lions Club.

House Majority Leader Mike Sanders, R-Kingfisher, recently spoke to this year’s White House interns in Washington D.C., a diverse group of law students, attorneys, undergrads, members of the military and others from all across the country.