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Kingfisher County officials are urging local residents to respond to the 2020 Census. Over the next decade, lawmakers, business owners and many others will use 2020 Census data to make critical decisions.

As Heritage Foundation researchers have demonstrated throughout the pandemic, the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has been heavily concentrated in a small number of states—and among a small number of counties within states. Even though the U.S.

The rioting in Portland has gone on for more than 50 days and shows few signs of winding down. An organizer of the ongoing rioting in Portland says the anarchist movement is aiming for the “abolition of the United States as we know it” and referred to the United States as “stolen land.

Hennessey Police Officer Aaron Pitts will again walk the halls of Hennessey Public Schools this fall after the school board approved a contract renewal with the town for a resource officer. Pitts, a 2008 Hennessey High School graduate, has been with the HPD for three years.

Oklahoma Blood Institute needs donors to help rebuild the blood supply in response to the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis and is urging healthy adults to take some time to save lives this summer. Its next local drive is Saturday, July 25, at United Supermarket in Kingfisher. The drive is from 10 a.

The three local auto dealerships once again provided vehicles for students to use when taking driver’s education classes. Some 30 Kingfisher students are taking part in this year’s classes, which includes six hours of instructional driving time as well as 30 hours of classroom time.

Hennessey Public Schools “runs a tight financial ship,” “buildings are fabulously maintained” and “the district strongly supports classroom technology.

Multiple Kingfisher County students recently were honored by the Oklahoma State University Ferguson College of Agriculture with academic scholarships for the 2020- 2021 academic year. The scholarships are part of the more than $1.

The Kingfisher Police Department has investigated or responded to the following reports: July 16 - Domestic abuse by strangulation. Officer Briston Lowry responded to a domestic altercation in the 500 block of East Broadway Avenue.

Kingfisher Public Schools released its school supply lists early this week. The lists are for kindergarten, first and second graders at Gilmour Elementary; third and fourth graders at Heritage; and fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth graders at Kingfisher Middle School.