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After Kingfisher County commissioners approved a 2020-21 budget totaling $22,606,879.55 at their weekly meeting Monday, District 3 Commissioner Heath Dobrovolny told the Times & Free Press the county is “still very strong.

After the longest and most stressful spring break in history, area school students and teachers began returning to actual classrooms last week to navigate their way through a new normal. Schools across the state did not reopen after spring break in March under an emergency declaration from Gov.

Patricia Woodward, director of the 2020 Census program in Oklahoma, has issued an appeal for all state residents to fill out their census forms. The deadline to respond is Sept. 30. State Sen.

What if you paid for a service, were then told the service would not be provided, that you wouldn’t get your money back, and that you are now expected to pay for the same service again?

Kingfisher County’s net property valuation for 2020 increased 5.5% over last year, with increases in every county school district except Hennessey, according to a report certified last Wednesday by County Assessor Carolyn Mulherin.

Thursday was 41 new pre-k students’ first experience of Hennessey Public School. Friday was Gov. Kevin Stitt’s. Superintendent Dr. Mike Wood hosted State Sen. Chuck Hall, Stitt and State Rep.-elect Mike Dobrinski on a tour of the campus.

Richard Ray Reynolds was named to round out the Kingfisher City Commission at a special meeting Wednesday night. Reynolds will be sworn in and seated at Monday’s regular August meeting to fill the post vacated by Roxie Alexander when she was elected mayor.

PHILLIPS BRIDGE over Kingfisher Creek on E 760 Road at Lemon Road is one of eight Kingfisher County repairs listed by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation to be financed through the 2021-22 County Improvements to Roads and Bridges Fund.

A handful of parents voiced their concerns with the school district’s new valedictorian policy during last Monday’s meeting of the Kingfisher Board of Education.“My biggest issue is with the timing of it all,” said Kenny Lunsford, one of four people who spoke to the board.

The Kingfisher Board of Education filled in some employment gaps during last Monday’s regular August meeting.