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The Cashion High School chess team won the Oklahoma Scholastic Chess Organization’s state championship held March 7 at Carl Albert High School. Pictured are, from left, Connor McCabe, sponsor Vernon Richards, Jayden Collier, Guiliani Martinez, Abe Ross and Jahmad James.

The following traffic accidents are being investigated by the Kingfisher Police Department: February 21, 8:10 p.m. - At 201 S. Main St. Bennie Ridenour, 21, Kingfisher, driving a 2010 Chevrolet, was backing out of a parking space at Love’s Country Store.

Tillman Producers Co-op, an ag cooperative based out of Frederick, officially began operating as part of CHS, the nation’s leading farmer-owned cooperative on March 2. The group joins the CHS ag retail unit based in western Oklahoma (chswesternok.

Bill Samuels, Jr., chairman emeritus of Maker’s Mark Bourbon, delivered a message to a crowd at the 2020 OKC Maker’s Mark Beefsteak Dinner. The event was hosted Feb.

AFTER PROM DONATION - Kingfisher’s First United Methodist Church donated $1,463.24 to the Kingfisher High School After Prom Party, representing proceeds of a soup and baked potato fundraiser hosted by the church.

A Kingfisher man injured in a three-vehicle crash south of Kingfisher March 3 remains hospitalized at OU Medical Center, where he faces more surgeries.

[Ed. Note: The following is the secondpart ofa two-part story started in Sunday’s paper about retiring Kingfisher Police Chief Dennis Baker and his family.] Kelsi Zapata and her sister Kori Baker can’t really say if their lives were different growing up in a law enforcement household.

Support by local merchants for liquor sales on Sunday was unanimous, so it’s no surprise the reaction to the passing of two county questions last Tuesday received a unanimous response. “We’re glad it turned out the way it did,” said Gary Wilson, Kingfisher Golf Course club pro.

Kingfisher High School’s choir swept the judges in the performance portion of the Class 4A district choral competition and has earned a spot in the state competition for a fifth consecutive year. “As their choir director, I’m so proud of the work they have done,” said Diann Magnus.

Word of Kingfisher Police Chief Dennis Baker’s impending retirement from law enforcement was not met with enthusiasm by city officials or his fellow officers. But those aren’t the people Baker is most concerned about making happy.