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The Surprise Extension Homemakers met Jan. 16 in the home of Loretta Kretchmar to plan its hostesses and lesson leaders for the 2020 year.

Welcome to the wild west of weed. Eighteen months after Oklahoma voters approved medical marijuana, the state is awash in cannabis retail shops. One in 13 adult Oklahomans has a patient card.

A 31-year-old Geary woman was pronounced dead at the scene of a Jan. 6 traffi c accident on S.H. 270 just west of Chisholm Road east of Geary, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Michelle A. Brockman of Geary was driving a 2008 Mini Cooper that was traveling east on S.H.

Kingfisher will be considered a longshot Thursday in its bid to return to the dual state wrestling championships. Duals will be held in Tuttle that day to determine the District 4A-2 champ and the qualifi er for dual state. Joining KHS and the host Tigers are Anadarko and Southeast.

Even as unseasonably mild weather and sunny days over the weekend gave way to frostier temperatures Tuesday, the county was still producing some of the state’s famously beautiful prairie sunrises.

Contracts were awarded Wednesday for the first phase of a project that will eventually lead to a new seventh and eighth grade center for Kingfisher Public Schools.

Independents and Republicans continue to grow as a share of registered Oklahoma voters, according to the latest statistics released from the Oklahoma State Election Board. Oklahoma’s official voter registration statistics are counted every year on Jan.

Gary Reid celebrates two important milestones each year at this time – his fi rst foray into the world of newspapers as a fresh-faced journalism graduate from Oklahoma State University and his arrival in Kingfisher as the new publisher of the Times & Free Press.

MAKING THE GRADE Even before the state released the Oklahoma School Report Cards, administrators and staff at Kingfi sher Public Schools were at work on plans to continually improve the district from the youngest grades to the oldest.

Hennessey Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Mike Woods was rehired for the 2020-21 school year at last Tuesday’s school board meeting after 90 minutes in closed session. Action on his pay and contract will come later.