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Cashion native Mark Beutler has been named to the “All Regions Club” of the American Cancer Society. Beutler is director of communications for ACS and handles all internal and external media throughout Oklahoma and north Texas.

A Hennessey man is recovering from injuries suffered in an ATV accident late Saturday night. Matthew Hau, 38, suffered head, leg and internal injuries after rolling a Polaris ATV about 14 miles west and a mile north of Hennessey, according to a report from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

On Aug. 10, The Oklahoman highlighted that LGBT persons are not protected by Oklahoma’s hate crime statute. The story reported an attack by two men against Christian Council, a gay man. According to Council, a simple car honk caused two men to become upset with him.

Kingfisher County Retired Educators will hold its first meeting of the 2020-21 year next week. The group will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2, at the Kingfisher Farm Bureau building, 117 W. Sheridan, in Kingfisher. This is a new meeting place.

Kingfisher County’s unusually damp summer (to date) has resulted in a bumper hay harvest. Some producers have been cutting and baling Lovegrass in their wheat stubble, producing as much as five or six bales to the acre, County Extension Director-Agriculture Educator Bryan Kennedy said.

Marriage Licenses Kingfisher County Court Clerk Lisa Markus issued marriage licenses recently to the following couples: July 17: Brooks Ryan Nyce, 64, and Patricia Jane PRice, 64, both of Enid.

District 1 County Commissioner Jeff Moss reported Monday that work will start Sept. 7 to clean borrow ditches and tin horns on College Hill. He said work will be scheduled between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. in order to avoid traffic congestion as much as possible.

Oil and gas production activity in the once lucrative and robust STACK play in Kingfisher, Canadian and Blaine counties is not gone forever, but exactly when it may come back is difficult to predict.

A two-week stretch at home just got a lot shorter for some Kingfisher Public Schools students. The district announced Thursday that third graders could return to Heritage Elementary beginning Monday, Aug. 24.

A coronavirus outbreak at a Hennessey nursing home has resulted in 25 residents and six staff members testing positive in the last week.