Kingfisher Oklahoma

[Written prior to Christnamas Day] When the COVID pandemic firsthit I didn’t think it would last long, after all, it was made in China. But here it is almost Christmas and I’m still living like a dog...

[Attention readers: Dennis Prager is off this week. Please enjoy the following column by Stephen Moore.] Nearly everyone has seen the classic movie “The Shawshank Redemption.” Well, it turns out there is a real life “Red” Redding, the character played by Morgan Freeman. He is in prison in Alabama.

Its been quite a year - the worst year, for a long time. The covid, China virus, whatever you want to call it, has killed many people around the world, including our friends and neighbors, in our area. I know there have been many that survived.

Are you frustrated with the “mainstream” media? You’re not alone. That’s why OCPA started its own journalism center, to bring important, relevant news to you. It’s time to stop pretending that “mainstream” news sites are unbiased and objective.

If there were ever a time to “question authority,” as the old counterculture slogan of the 1960s urged, the authoritarian age of COVID-19 is that time. 2020 will go down in American history as the year that public health “experts” got everything wrong. It’s not just that their judgment was faulty.

Democrats are facing a nightmare scenario which would see a Republican elected Speaker of the House on Jan. 3, ending Nancy Pelosi’s reign despite Democrats holding a slim majority.

The tragic, tragic story of Jacie Cochran is now well-known and well-documented. The wife of Cashion coach Cale Cochran, Jacie gave birth to their firstborn child on July 2, 2020, but lost her own life in the process.

Kiowa girls coach James Pannell picked up the phone, looking for someone to play. Kevin Lewallen answered. That exchange led to Tuesday’s rare regular-season showdown between Lomega, Class B’s best in the west, and Kiowa, quite possibly the class’ top team in the east. No.

LADY WARRIORS – Members of the 2020-21 Okarche junior high girls basketball team include, from left: front row, Scout Payne, Jill Glazier, Avery Schieber, Erica Hammons, Ruby Vandendriessche and Hannah Carnott; and back row, Kylie Harper, Addison Mingus, Madison Nance, Jadyn Rother and Jaci Easton.

Services for Delia Chaparro de Vega, Hennessey, were 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan.2, at the Hennessey High School auditorium under the direction of Cordry-Gritz Funeral Home. Delia was born March 10, 1945, to David Chaparro and Maria Valenzuela in La Nortena, Chihuahua, Mexico, and died Sunday, Dec.