Kingfisher Oklahoma

The Center of Family Love (CFL) raised over $500,000 last Saturday night with its live streamed telethon event. The event replaced the organization’s seventh an nual Gift of Love Gala, which has raised over $1 million each of the past two years. CFL resident Patti C.

The temporary burn ban that county commissioners had been expected to proclaim at their meeting Monday has been called off after plentiful rain fell over the weekend. Rainfall measuring up to 3.3 inches could hardly have arrived in a more timely manner.

A Kingfisher husband and wife were charged Tuesday with felony child abuse in Kingfisher County District Court for periodically caging two intellectually disabled boys in a homemade cage in a closet in their home. Joel Lowes, 69, was charged with four counts of felony child abuse.

Oklahoma’s increases in confirmed COVID-19 cases have set records over the last few days – with 352 new confirmed cases reported Friday for a total of 9,706. Friday’s report for Kingfisher County included four new cases, also a record one-day increase, from 13 to 17, with 12 reported recovered.

[Ed. Note: Mark Beutler, Cashion High School Class of ’81, shares this personal account of how his mom navigated single parenthood by relying on the lessons of her own dad.] It was Sunday, June 12, 1960, just before Father’s Day.

[Ed. note: The following article is the second of two about the political career of State Rep. Mike Sanders (R-Kingfisher) who is ending a 12-year stint in the House of Representatives as the longest-serving Republican in District 59.

A thunderstorm brought welcome showers to Kingfisher Friday morning. The system bringing the moisture spread from the north across the county, depositing .9 inch of rain by Noon.

A knock on the door at a home on West Fay Avenue recently led to a welcome surprise. The home of Nick and Linda Westfahl was awarded the June Silver Spade award. The honor is presented by the Kingfisher Lions Club during the summer months to homes exhibiting exceptional landscaping and beauty.

A serious threat to Oklahoma’s health care system appears on the June 30 ballot in Oklahoma. If approved it will make Obamacare a part of the Oklahoma Constiution. It’s forever unless rescinded by a statewide vote at some point. The column below by Steve Fair explains it well.

State Question 802 will be on the June 30 primary ballot. It is an initiative petition supported by those who want to expand Medicaid for low-income Oklahomans whose pay does not exceed 133 percent of the federal poverty level. If passed, it would become a part of the state constitution.