Kingfisher Oklahoma

Six games. Four-hundred-fifty-four pitches. That’s what the Kingfisher High School softball team - and pitching staff - managed Saturday while nearly pulling off an improbable tournament championship.

The latest round of Junior Golf Scoreboard rankings has seen the Maddi Kamas star continue to brighten on the national scale. The Kingfisher High School senior was tabbed 37th in the nation when the rankings were released Monday.

The annual Highway 33 Classic softball tournament in Kingfisher will take on a new format this year, but will still crown a champion when its finished. The three-day tournament begins Thursday and will feature games on both of Kingfisher’s fields throughout.

Football season is just over a week away for some of the state’s teams and this week will be the first and only scrimmage action those teams will see. All four local football schools are scheduled to have their first scrimmages of 2020 this week.

Ring-tailed lemurs. No stranger to successfully raising show pigs, goats, chickens and rabbits, Isaac Kerr has recently branched out to a new breed. Ring-tailed lemurs.

Hennessey vet assistant Jamie Goldman, right, was crowned queen and Kayla Kremeier of Okarche was crowned princess of the 63 rd annual Kingfisher Roundup Club Rodeo. [Photo Provided]

Kingfisher County’s COVID-19 alert risk was upgraded Friday to moderate, after the number of new daily cases climbed slightly over the last seven days. With a daily average of new cases now at 16.31 per 100,000 population, the county joins 27 others in the “orange” category.

State Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready’s first 18 months in office gives new meaning to the term “hitting the ground running.

Most Americans – at least the older ones –thank their lucky stars that their first ancestor came to America. Mine was a Scottish shoemaker.

It was a jaw-dropping moment when Gov. Kevin Stitt asked School Superintendent Dr. Mike Woods if State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister knew about the tech programs used in our Hennessey schools.