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Kingfisher County residents will join other state residents on Tuesday, June 30, in voting on S.Q. 802, a measure that would add Medicaid expansion to Oklahoma’s Constitution. Ballotpedia, a research organization, analyzes the question this way: What would S.Q. 802 do?

At age 27, after examining her back, a doctor told her she would be in a wheelchair by the time she was 40 years old. He was wrong. Fearless and full of adventure, Jane Hightower is now 88 years old and still not bound to a wheelchair.

The Center of Family Love (CFL), a residential and vocational nonprofit for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities, is taking its seventh annual Gift of Love Gala online with a new virtual live stream telethon event. CFL resident Patti C.

In action at last Monday night’s Hennessey Board of Education meeting, two returning teachers were rehired and one new teacher/coach was hired. All were hired on temporary contracts. Lezlie (Zielny) Hardin returns to Hennessey Public Schools after five years.

Kingfisher’s Lori Burns is one of two new members of the Redlands Community College Board of Regents. Burns and Dr. Rhys Cole of El Reno were recently appointed by Gov. Kevin Stitt. Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed two new members to the Redlands Community College Board of Regents.

The Hennessey Board of Education last Monday night accepted the donation of this cast in aluminum eagle, which is seven feet tall. “Some gentlemen (who asked not to be identified) saw it on a trip and bought it,” Superintendent Dr. Mike Woods told board members.

The Kingfisher Police Department has investigated or responded to the following reports: June 2 - Burglary-second degree. Officer Travis Gray responded to a report of a burglary in the 800 block of South Main Street.

If Dover School students are wanting to read this summer, they’ll have plenty of options. School staff have placed “Little Longhorn Libraries” at two locations in town. One is at the Dover Baptist Church and the other at the school bus barn (located west of the baseball field).

With an election coming up at the end of the month, Kingfisher County Election Board Secretary Shawna Butts is urging voters to take precautions in the wake of the global pandemic.

Three people, including one local man, were injured Friday evening in a one-vehicle accident in far eastern Kingfisher County. Henry Tasso, Jr., 56, Kingfisher, was a passenger in a 2001 GMC Yukon driven by Teresa Lavonne Powell, 48, of Oklahoma City.