Kingfisher Oklahoma

Approval of annual contracts comprised a major part of Monday’s weekly meeting of Kingfisher County commissioners.The annual agreements included:• A contract with Craig County Detention Center for holding underage sheriff’s office detainees on an as needed basis.

Despite clear skies and warm temperatures over the weekend, wheat harvest continues to drag on in Kingfisher County.Additional rain Sunday night and early Monday added another drag to the harvest.Reports of as much as 1.

Kingfisher’s season came to an end Saturday, but not before the team was able to reach the OK Kids 12U state tournament semifinals. Altus advanced to the title game with an 8-0 win over Kingfisher in Weatherford. Later in the day, Altus downed Sulphur 5-4 to win the state championship.

New York City’s almost certain election of a self proclaimed Democratic socialist and proven antisemite as mayor last week could mean that another half-million or more sane New Yorkers could flee the world’s “economic center” in the coming year.

Last week, science writer Christopher Plain published a story in the online magazine The Debrief (which describes its subject matter as “Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious”) about fossilized human footprints found in a desiccated lakebed in White Sands, New Mexico.

In the mid-1950s while snooping in my 17-year-old sister’s room I found a box with a white silk flag that had a large red circle in the center.The 11-year-old me didn’t know it was a flag until I tattled to Momma, then showed her the box.

President Donald Trump has finally moved the United States past the traumas of the Iraq War.With the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz, the U.S. made the world a safer place in the long run.

• PRINTING EARLY: The next edition of The Kingfisher Times & Free Press will print a day early due to the July 4 holiday. That moves up the deadline for advertising and legal publications to 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 2, to guarantee placement in that edition.

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”- Benjamin Franklin There was a lot of learning, a lot of involvement and a lot of friendships being made at the 82nd annual American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) Oklahoma Girls State.

He’s delivered us food and drinks for multiple generations. He was that familiar voice in the Sonic stall speaker. He’s trained other carhops and mentored countless fellow employees. His customers loved him and he loved them - and even their pets - back. And now? Well, he can do whatever he wants.