Kingfisher Oklahoma

By Michael SwisherKT&FP Managing EditorBefore 2017, the state championship game was foreign territory for the Kingfisher boys basketball team.Now it’s like a second home.

Cashion never got that one shot to drop.And now the Wildcats’ season is over.Howe scored the game’s final 10 points Thursday at State Fair Arena to pull out a 47-37 victory in the boys Class 2A quarterfinals.

The fourth quarter belonged to Bijan Cortes and the Kingfisher Yellowjackets.And they needed it.Kingfisher took over down the stretch to hold off a stingy and upset-minded Blanchard squad 46-34 in the Class 4A quarterfinals at State Fair Arena.

Osborn, Neuman win top honors After a dark and challenging year like no other for local businesses, the Kingfisher Chamber of Commerce presented its top awards to one man who focused on creative pandemic relief and another who kept the lights on for Kingfisher Winter Nights.

Want success? Keep fanning those fl ames Even football superstar Curtis Lofton struggled with burnout from time to time. But he told a hometown crowd at the Kingfisher Chamber Banquet Monday night that the key to success is “finding your fire and then fanning that flame.

The Lomega Lady Raiders continued to add to their storied legacy Saturday when they defeated Kiowa 67-60 in the Class B state championship at State Fair Arena. It was the program’s 15th state championship, four more than any other girls program in Oklahoma.

Thanks to Stephen Baustert of Okarche for dropping off some pleasant reading material. One of the items was a column written by John Martin for Central Oklahoma weeklies. The second was a collection of Old West history, produced by Time-Life books.

Aboard meeting was the excuse I needed to get out of my COVID every day and night jogging pants. New jeans! Dark blue in a pile of old pants, and still had price tags, so I decided to break them in. They were long, instead of my regular length, and that sent me to the closet for boots.

Mike Pence is a distinguished visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He previousig served as vice president of the United States, governor of Indiana, and member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

We all know someone who has been pricegouged with a surprise medical bill. Carolyn Coburn, widow of former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, recently made headlines when she revealed one Tulsa hospital sought to charge her (and her insurer) $4,000 combined for a COVID-19 test.