Kingfisher Oklahoma

If only its buildings could talk… Like many other Oklahoma small towns, Kingfisher’s downtown Main Street holds a lot of history.

While many of the 30-some counties finding themselves without local Department of Human Services facilities in the wake of a recent state closure decision may still be struggling for solutions, Kingfisher’s faith-based community has stepped up to the challenge.

Dover Pastor Eloise Gray learned this summer that American children aren’t the only ones set adrift by coronavirus school closures.Pastor Gray, her husband Tim and their congregation at Mt.

Dover school district patrons voted to approve a $15.6 million construction bond issue by an overwhelming majority last week.

  The news article recently that The Hennessey Clipper will cease weekly publication is sad to us. We remember a time in Oklahoma when even very small towns (under 1,000) often had a newspaper. It gave people in those towns a way of communicating and keeping abreast of events.

The U.S. Department of State has declared that the Confucius Institute U.S. Center, which has long operated an institute at the University of Oklahoma, is a foreign mission of the People’s Republic of China. In a statement on the action, the U.S.

As part of my ongoing “Take An Urbanite Outdoors Program” I recently took an 18-year-old boy outdoors at the request of his parents who are worried that playing video games and texting with his friends 14 hours a day might somehow inhibit his development.

Nearly one in three Oklahoma school districts has already applied for a program launched by Gov. Kevin Stitt that will provide advanced courses online.

Dennis and Tammy Mueggenborg show off the interior of their flower shop, where a recent removal of the dropped ceiling revealed these beautiful pressed tin ceiling tiles.

It’s already beginning to feel like fall in Yorkshire, England. Cindy Matteson is enjoying the cooler weather while on holiday visiting her son and daughter-in-law.