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Judges deemed Mike Gore’s 1939 Panel truck (top left) as Best of Show at last weekend’s Kool Cars & Chrome Show hosted by the Kingfi sher Chamber of Commerce. There were 113 entries this year, the most ever for the event. Ed Thiems’ Ford F100 (top right) won the award for Best Engine.

Oklahoma 4-H’ers were in the spotlight during the 104th State 4-H Roundup as they took center stage with workshops, contests, district rallies and more.More than 750 club members and adults gathered on the Oklahoma State University campus for the biggest 4-H event of the year on July 23-25.

Fifty-two relatives and guests of the WC Wehrenberg family gathered on July 26 at the Loyal Evangelical Church to celebrate their heritage.In 1901, Chas Wehrenberg, who had immigrated from Germany in 1869 and settled in Illinois, scouted out Oklahoma Indian territory for farms for his four boys.

The traffic returned to 13th Street on Thursday and the drop-off lines were full of vehicles. That can only mean one thing. School has started in Kingfisher. That was the case as the hallways and classes were full of students and teachers across all five of Kingfisher Public Schools’ campuses.

A Norman teenager died Wednesday in an automobile accident that shut down a portion of State Highway 33 for more than eight hours.Pronounced dead from injuries suffered in the accident was Kaleb B. Parsons, according to a report from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Calling all cowboys and cowgirls.It’s time to get your entries in for the 68th annual Kingfisher Rodeo.The rodeo is set for Friday and Saturday, Aug. 15-16, at Kingfisher Roundup Club Arena.Entries can be completed online through the NEXTGEN rodeo app and are due by 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10.

Kingfisher County commissioners opened six bids on an emergency management command center, ranging from $232,179.99 to $377,706, and voted to close the courthouse Friday and possibly Monday due to completion of the work to upgrade electrical service to the courthouse.

There were tons of cool cars at this year’s Kingfi sher Chamber of Commerce Kool Cars & Chrome Show held last Saturday. There were 103 of them, in fact. However, there was a lot more added to this year’s event.

• MEET THE CANDIDATE: Kingfisher County Republican Women is continuing its series of hosting candidates for the next gubernatorial election. Jake Merrick will make a presentation at the group’s next meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 11, at the Kingfisher County Farm Bureau Insurance Building, 117 W.

Jill Haub could barely contain her smile.The Dover English and reading teacher for seventh and eighth graders was walking through the halls of the high school late Monday morning.The floors were freshly waxed and shining.The walls showed off their new coat of paint.