Kingfisher Oklahoma

It appears nothing’s going to come easy as Kingfisher attempts to lock up a playoff spot in 2020. The Jackets took a big step in that direction Thursday night as they held off Perkins-Tryon 38-31 at home in a pivotal District 3A-1 game.

Winless Watonga wasn’t supposed to give Crescent much of a game in their Week 7 matchup. And it didn’t. Crescent dominated virtually every aspect of the game Thursday night to defeat the visiting Eagles 35-6. The victory improved the Tigers’ record to 5-1 overall and 2-1 in District A-3.

For the second time this season, Kingfisher’s seventh grade football team suffered defeat in overtime. Weatherford scored on the second play of its overtime possession Monday to pull out a 22-16 victory over the visiting Jackets. The loss ended the seventh graders’ season at 3-5.

Parents were irritated when they learned it’s unknown when fencing, door alarms and more cameras would be installed at the Hennessey Early Childhood Center. “What’s the timeline on the fencing?” asked Chandra Seiger, a parent and a regular at board meetings.

Oklahoma Department of Transportation is urging motorists to start planning now to locate an alternate route for a full closure of eastbound and westbound State Highway 33 between Sixth and Second streets in Kingfisher.

Lomega students and staff all returned to school Monday for the first time since Sept. 24. “We’re all back and in full swing,” said Superintendent Steve Shiever.

The state’s largest school system was ordered Monday by the Oklahoma State Board of Education to pay back $11.2 million in taxpayer funding after an investigative audit pointed out excessive administrative costs among its findings.

It is highly suspect that the Biden-Harris Democrat ticket refuses to announce a list of Supreme Court nominees.

It’s hard to believe that the next presidential election is less than a month away, and November 3rd will be here before we know it. The deadline to register to vote in this election has passed, but there’s still time to request your absentee ballot if you’d like to vote by mail.

During slavery, many black women, often in a forcible union with a white man, bore mixedrace children. Based on their percentage of white blood, they were deemed “mulattos,” “quadroons,” “octoroons” or even “hexadecaroons.