Kingfisher Oklahoma

A cancellation by its original opponent helped lead to one of Kingfisher’s signature wins of the season. In a tantalizing matchup last Friday night, Class 4A’s top-ranked Yellowjackets defeated Class 5A #1 Carl Albert 56-47 in Oklahoma City.

In one form or another last week, COVID-19 completely changed up the Kingfisher girls basketball schedule and still had the team searching for a lost game early this week. The Lady Jackets played just once last week - a 36-30 home defeat on Tuesday to Class 6A’s Edmond Santa Fe.

Kingfisher County will have four representatives at this year’s Oklahoma Coaches Association AllState football game. Two Cashion players and two more from Kingfisher were among the selections when they were announced Monday by the OCA. Chosen from Cashion were Brexten Green and Caden Harrell.

Kingfisher County closed the books on another tough week, with heartache, struggle and losses, but also notable blessings in equal measure that can only come from a community as supportive as this one in which we are so fortunate to live and work.

More than 30 members of the U.S. House Energy Action Team, including members of Oklahoma’s Congressional delegation, denounced President Joe Biden’s executive order banning new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters. Their statements follow: HEAT Co-Chair, Rep. Markwayne Mullin (ROkla.

Candidates for municipal office in Kingfisher County municipalities may file declarations of candidacy beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, Feb. 1. Shawna Butts, Kingfisher County Election Board secretary, said the filing period ends at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3.

A Crescent woman was killed Jan.19 in a head-on traffic collision on S.H. 33 west of Guthrie, according to an Oklahoma Highway Patrol Report. Barbara Heflin, 79, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 10:32 a.m. two-vehicle crash at S.H.

From a country boy perspective, it appears that Joe Biden’ explosion of executive orders in his first few days in office are designed to overwhelm American citizens and cause countrywide misery. One seems to to see will cause.

If I’ve talked with you on the phone, or emailed you, then I’ve probably asked for your blood type. I’ve been so obsessed with COVID-19 blood types that I emailed our children and grandchildren to get their information. Then, during an interview with a school official last week I asked for his.

(Commentary by David Morgan, Asheville Tribune) A tsunami is a “series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean,” often caused by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, which then cause great disruption on land.