Kingfisher Oklahoma

What if someone offered to serve you nothing but dessert every day for a month—but in exchange you had to promise that you would forgo the opportunity to buy health food for the rest of the year?

A recent meeting in OKC with friends after more than a year apart were oh-so-welcome, and needed. We took up right where we left off. Or sorta, with the COVID-19 pandemic in our discussions, still on our minds and conversations after we were seated and took off our masks.

Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for National Institutes of Health (NIH) records of communications, contracts and agreements with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

The Okarche High School speech team won its 24th Southwest Regional speech and debate title Saturday, March 27. OHS claimed the first-place sweepstakes plaque from the event, which was being held virtually this year due to COVID-19. Crescent placed second and Lawton Academy took third.

F&M Bank will be a leader in the industry’s charge to provide American consumers and businesses with instant payments services that deliver control, convenience and certainty by participating in a pilot program for the Federal Reserve’s upcoming instant payments offering, the FedNow Service.

We Survived. We at this newspaper are thankful and delighted that we survived coming down with COVID-19.

We’re almost half way through the legislative session. The House passed 416 measures to the state Senate, and we received 456 bills from that chamber. Most of the Senate bills have been read for a second time and assigned to committees. This is a procedural process required by House rule.

The KHS Photography staff’s annual rite of “passing the torch” recently took place. Grace Stinnett, center, who has been the chief photographer this year, will graduate in May and is passing her responsibilities to new Chief Photographer Matthew Miller, left.

I’d like to take a moment to thank our local tag agent, Eric Barker, as well as his team, for their service to the Kingfisher community, especially during these challenging times.

A 26-year-old Hennessey man remains jailed on $100,000 bond on a charge of felony child abuse for alleged injuries to his three-month-old son. Oscar Daniel Estrada-Morales, 719 S. Bonita, pleaded not guilty to the charge March 17 in Kingfisher County District Court.