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Adam Click, formerly associate pastor of the Federated Church in Kingfisher, has been named pastor, succeeding Luke Aadalen.Aadalen has joined Kingfi sher resident Kelly Kopp’s evangelistic ministry and also will remain in Kingfi sher.Aadalen is Kopp’s executive assistant.

Kingfisher Board of Education members adjourned without taking any action at the end of a three-hourlong special meeting on Thursday night.The lone action item on the agenda was “discussion and possible action on the superintendent’s employment.

( Editor’s Note: This story is being reprinted with the permission of NonDoc.com. Part of the land being proposed for a data center falls within Kingfisher County boundaries and mutliple legal notices regarding public meetings have been published in the KT&FP in recent weeks.

Oklahoma Home and Community Education (OHCE) Week is annually recognized during the first week of May.This year, that falls May 3-9.

Kingfisher High School’s choir had an eventful - and historic - few weeks in April.Early in the month, choir members took part in the OSSAA’s state choir contest at Stillwater High School.

RETIRED FORMER Kingfi sher County Associate District Judge Robert E. Davis (center) was honored during a luncheon Wednesday. Davis was presented a citation for 50 years of membership in the Oklahoma Bar Association during a Kingfi sher County Bar Association meeting.

When Oklahoma’s Medicaid program was expanded in 2020 to provide welfare benefits to able-bodied adults of working age, it lit the fuse on a financial time bomb that is now threatening to prevent funding for Oklahoma’s school system, state leaders warn.

“Project Hail Mary” is proof.Based upon the novel of the same name by author Andy Weir (who also wrote “The Martian”), the science fiction film released by Amazon MGM Studios has already grossed more than $600 million worldwide, on a $190 million budget.

Those were the words John Reid, my grandfather, told me at his 80th birthday party held on the farm where he raised his family, located three miles north of Altus, Oklahoma on a Saturday in March of 1983.Granddad didn’t quite make it to his 89th birthday.

At 76, Bridget Keast can often be seen scooting around her beloved town of Kingfisher – an unexpected but fitting symbol of a career defined by independence, curiosity and a willingness to try something new.