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Hennessey will soon replace its 10-year-old No. 1 ambulance with a 2017 model and also replace a 2014 Ford Explorer police vehicle, dubbed a lemon, with a 2019 Ford SUV. The new ambulance cost is $81,000 and has a three-year warranty from Emergency Service Supply out of Jefferson City.

The start of school is two weeks away for some county students. That includes Hennessey, which has enrollment next week. Enrollment is 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday, July 25, at the elementary school gym.

Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s 64th annual band camp recently attracted 439 students from four states to the Weatherford campus for Oklahoma’s oldest and longest-running band camp.

Oklahoma Blood Institute has two blood drives planned in Kingfisher at the end of this month. Scheduled drives are: • Tuesday, July 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cimarron Electric Cooperative; • Wednesday, July 31, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Kingfisher Walmart.

The Randall Townsend reunion started when Carrie Randall had her 12 children get together and has been held annually for the last 64 years. The gathering has usually been held in Kingfisher, first at Kingfisher Park and lately at the Elks Lodge.

Hennessey Farmerettes met at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 11, at the Eat It Up banquet room.   Answering roll call with “what inexpensive or dollar store items have you used in decorating your home?

Two people were injured in a recent automobile accident just south of Kingfisher’s city limits. Debra Kay Wagner, 56, of Okarche, and Scott Alan Hatcher, 57, of Bethany, were both listed in stable condition with multiple injuries after the accident, which occurred just after 1:30 p.m.

July sales tax checks were lower for all Kingfisher County towns except Loyal and Kingfisher. Loyal received an $8,192.87 check this month, based on a 4 percent rate, compared to a $1,451.44 check in July, 2018, based on a 2 percent tax rate.

Sen. Jim Inhofe discussed a wide range of issues at a town hall meeting Friday at City Cafe in Kingfisher. Inhofe, who flew his private plane into Kingfisher Municipal Airport, presented a fact sheet containing a number of congressional actions enacted by the U.S.