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Kingfisher Bookcase Review Club will meet Monday, March 23, at the Farm Bureau Insurance Building, 117 W. Sheridan Ave., in Kingfisher. Jeanne Morgan of Oklahoma City will review the book “The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line” by Maj. Gen. Mari K. Eder. Lunch will be catered at 11:30 a.m.

Check-in starts at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, March 28, for the second annual “Running With My Peeps” event at Hennessey’s Bull Foot Park located on U.S. Highway 81. Events and start times are: • one mile walk, 8:15 a.m. • 3K run, 8:45 a.m., and • 5K, 9:15 a.m.

Kingfisher County commissioners approved two routine items in a three-minute meeting Monday.

The following traffic accidents are being investigated by the Kingfisher Police Department: January 22, 12:19 p.m. - At U.S. 81 and East Will Rogers Drive. Patrick Mueggenborg, 75, Kingfisher, driving a 1997 Chevrolet GMT-400, was northbound in the outside lane of U.S.

Kingfisher High School has named its Students of the Month for February 2026. Students were chosen based on many characteristics including responsibility, leadership, work ethic, reliability, kindness and more.

Kingfisher High School seniors TJ Washington and Abby Wallace are the March 2026 Junior Lions. The two were guests at a recent meeting of the Kingfi sher Lions Club. Washington is the son of Dawn Taylor.

Oklahoma colleges and public schools would be prohibited from forcing female students to room with or share intimate spaces with “transgender women”—men who identify as women—under legislation easily approved by the Oklahoma House of Representatives. House Bill 3242, by state Rep.

Hennessey’s board of trustees voted last week to not pass up what one trustee called “a good deal” to have a portion of a street paved.

High winds reported up to 65 miles per hour fanned a grass fire 13 miles west of Hennessey Sunday. The norther blasted mostofOklahomathroughout the day Sunday.

Senate Republicans appear to be warming to an extreme measure to overcome Democrat obstruction— the “nuclear option” of overriding the 60-vote threshold required to bring a bill to a final vote.