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Kingfisher, Okarche and Loyal had sales tax increases in March compared to March 2025. The March distribution of sales tax collections by the Oklahoma Tax Commission primarily represents local tax receipts from February business.

[ Anna Gustafson is a research assistant in the Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation.] The first anniversary of the start of President Donald Trump’s war on the Smithsonian Institution is at hand.

In addition to filling a pair of seats on the city commission, Kingfisher voters on Tuesday will also decide the fate of a proposition to bump up the hotel and motel tax rate.

Possible crop-saving rains fell across much of Kingfisher County Wednesday evening and overnight. Amounts ranged from .15 inch southwest of Kingfisher to 3.3 inches in Dover.

He’s died, essentially, three times. Yet Ty Gardner remains alive and is recovering in an Oklahoma City hospital. His brother Tracy Gardner said a string of events that included near-perfect timing is why Ty is still alive.

A Friday morning hearing in Oklahoma City about a proposed commercial waste site wanting to be located northeast of Hennessey “is being continued (to a later date).” That’s what Mike Maly told the Times & Free Press reporter late Monday afternoon.

Drew Thomas Allen is a columnist for The Daily Signal, a conservative author, and publicist who hosts The Drew Allen Show.

May 1, 2024, I had my initial conversation with David Walker. On our call we set plans to meet at his home in Alexandria, Va., in June. Although we had not yet met, I already had a strong sense that what I was supposed to do was going to be changing.

Ten members of the Hennessey Farmerettes OHCE Group attended the Spring County Council meeting at the Kingfisher Exhibit Building, hosted March 25 by the Happy Homemakers. Zack Smithson was the motivational speaker.

Theta Tau Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha met on March 16 at 7 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of the First Christian Church. Stormy Simmons, President, led the group in the opening ritual.