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Lomega’s girls basketball team poses with the state runner-up trophy after last Saturday’s Class B championship at State Fair Arena. The Lady Raiders were defeated 53-51 by Pittsburg as they were attempting to win a third straight championship. Lomega’s senior class that includes Allie Roberts, Hensley Eaton and Shelby Russell leave the program after reaching state all four years. They went 9-2 as they reached the semifinals in 2019, won titles in 2020 and 2021 and were runners-up this season. Pictured are, seated from left, Monse Rivera, Hensley Eaton, Shelby Russell, Aubree Geisler, Abby Swart, Hallie Barton, and Kamryn Turner; standing, manager Dafne Rivera, Maydelin Aguilar, Allison Roberts, Sierra Johnson, Madi Myers, Sydni Walker, Darcy Roberts, Chloe Meier, Kate Myers, Trinity Blevins, Ariel Jones, Kali Gardner and coach Kevin Lewallen. Rylee Glazier is not pictured. For more on the title game, see Page 6. [Photo by Chris Simon/www.simons-sports-photos.smugmug.com]
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1980 Hennessey High School graduates Gene and Tracy (Taylor) Bennett will return to their hometown this fall as members of the Hennessey Public School staff.
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Twenty-five years after a 19-year-old woman was kidnapped from a Bethany carwash, brutally raped and murdered,10 years after a Kingfisher man was instrumental in getting the case reopened and eight months after the killer was sentenced to death, Bill Kurtis will be talking about it on Cold Case Files.
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Maybe I spoke ill of Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau too soon recently regarding his treatment of truckers protesting his COVID orders.
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While researching the olden days newspapers for stories I used “Hennessey Cemetery” as search words on the library’s website. That’s when my first
Read moreOnly biological females could compete in girls’ sporting events at Oklahoma schools under legislation approved by a state House committee.
Read more[Annelise Butler is a research associate in the Center for Technology Policy at The Heritage Foundation.]
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We’ve officially passed our first deadline of the legislative session. This past Thursday was the deadline to advance Senate bills from our committees, meaning any measure that did not receive a hearing or did not receive enough votes to pass out of committee will not go any further in the legislative process this session. Of the 800 bills that were filed before session began, we’ve approved about 400 of them. We’ll next shift our efforts to studying and voting on these measures on the Senate floor.
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