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While City Manager Dave Slezickey described this week’s flooding as “a moderate inconvenience” inside city limits in comparison to storm damage in other areas of the state, county roads may tell another story.

Kingfisher County commissioners handled their weekly meeting agenda Tuesday in only 17 minutes before returning to the job of resuming repairs on flood-stricken county roads.

City and county authorities were investigating the death of a pedestrian who was apparently struck by a Union-Pacific train while walking along the tracks near Kingfisher Tuesday. Neither the identity of the pedestrian nor details of the accident were available at press time.

All’s well that ends well. That’s the perspective of Kingfisher City Manager Dave Slezickey and other city employees who spent a tense two days preparing for, monitoring and responding to flooding that could have been much more disastrous.

Last Tuesday’s flood was far from Kingfisher business owner Brian Walter’s first rodeo. “Goes with the neighborhood, doesn’t it?” Walter said early Tuesday afternoon, pausing only briefly as he and his employees hustled to move merchandise at Walter Building Center to higher ground.

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” That creed has long been associated with the United States Postal Service, although it’s not its official motto.

Kingfisher County commissioners were running fast and hard across their districts Wednesday after Tuesday’s flooding.Flood waters washed out numerous roadways, some tinhorns and damaged some bridges.

Theta Tau, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, meeting was held 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, in the home of Cynthia Eaton.

Sarah Gruntmeir of Kingfisher will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural sciences at Cornell University’s 151st commencement ceremony, to be held May 26, in Ithaca, N.Y. Gruntmeir is among 3,400 undergraduate students graduating in the spring commencement event.

Spring semester honor rolls at Northwestern Oklahoma State University have been announced by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Those on the President’s Honor Roll earned all A’s, or a 4.0 grade point average (GPA), in a minimum of 12 undergraduate or nine graduate hours.