Kingfisher Oklahoma

Jolene B. Rogers, 77, Hennessey, died Monday, March 15, 2021, at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Enid. The funeral service was Friday, March 19, at First Baptist Church of Hennessey and officiated by Pastor Aaron Summers.

There’s so much to cover, so much to talk about, so much to dissect on the Kingfisher boys basketball program, its recent run and its most recent state championship. The coaches. The players. The history.

For the second time in the past three weeks, Southwestern Oklahoma State baseball has had a player honored as the Great American Conference Pitcher of the Week after Matt Hopkins earned the award on Monday. Hopkins, a Kingfisher High School product, is in his first year with the Bulldogs.

Kingfisher was again named among 23 communities qualifying for national status as Tree City USA in a virtual celebration hosted by Oklahoma Forestry Services and the Community Forestry Council.

District Judge Paul Woodward sentenced Steven Stricker, 64, to life in prison Thursday afternoon after an eight-man, four-woman Kingfisher County jury convicted him of second-degree murder in the 2019 death of his girlfriend Brenda Baber.

Former state representative Mike Sanders of Kingfisher has been selected to advise a five-year, $24 million research project that aims to address the impacts of Oklahoma’s unpredictable weather.

The Chisholm Trail Museum was recently awarded $16,686 through the Oklahoma Historical Society’s Oklahoma Heritage Preservation Grant program. The grant will fund the development of two traveling trunks and multiple on-site living history programs.

I tell people all the time that I have the best newspaper job in the state. The past month or so of basketball playoffs has only cemented that belief.

The amount of funds from the American Rescue Plan to towns and cities is based on census numbers, and the Town of Hennessey “should be getting about $360,000 in relief funds.” That’s what Administrator Tiffany Tillman told town trustees at their Thursday night meeting.

The FBI has deployed agents from all but one of its 56 field offices to hunt down those suspected of participating in the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.