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REAL WARRIORS – Each month students at Okarche Elementary School are recognized for a good character trait and announced as REAL Warriors honorees. In the month of March, the character trait was “creativity.” REAL is an acronym for Respect, Effort, Attitude and Leadership.

HERITAGE ELEMENTARY Students of the Month for February 2025 have been announced. Second graders (pictured above) earning the honor were, from left: Hannah Counts, Avery Garcia, Madie Harder, Shanaya Patel and Madison Wood.

For the first time in a decade, Carly Franks was not a member of the Kingfisher Board of Education.Franks served on the board for the last time during the March meeting and her seat was filled at Monday’s April regular meeting by Bill Reitz.

During a special meeting in February, board members voted to remove the “interim” tag from Andy Evans’ role as superintendent.That move was pending completion of a negotiated contract.

Lightning was the apparent cause of a fire that damaged a wind turbine northeast of Dover early Friday morning.Dover Fire Department responded to a fire call at about 5:45 a.m., according to Chief Jeff Johnson.

Over the weekend of March 29, the Okarche High School speech team attended the southwest regional competition in Weatherford.The team, coached by T.J. Harris, placed second in 3A sweepstakes.

Early registration closed Friday for Hennessey’s 5K and 3K runs and the onemile walk.It will reopen at Bull Foot Park on run day Saturday, April 19, from 8-8:30 a.m. with a 9 a.m. start time.Registration is $15 and includes a festival t-shirt.

Kingfisher High School has named its Students of the Month for March 2025.Students are chosen based on many characteristics including responsibility, leadership, work ethic, reliability, kindness and more.

Four Kingfisher High School seniors were guests recently at a meeting of the Kingfisher Rotary Club. Joining the local civic group were Deacon Harjo, Donte Almanzar, Alex Montiel and Joaquin Wallace.Harjo is the son of Desirae and Ira Horse.