Kingfisher Oklahoma

Okarche High School senior Carsyn Taylor has been recognized as a recipient of the 2020 Oklahoma State Superintendent’s Award for Arts Excellence. Taylor, a four-year member of the Okarche speech and drama department, was one of 25 students statewide to receive the award in the field of theatre.

Valerie and Tommy Mueggenborg of Okarche announce the birth of their son, Andrew Duane. Andrew was born May 2, 2020, in Oklahoma City. He weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces and measured 20 1/4 inches. He has one older brother, Kyler. Maternal grandparents are Duane and Gail Kadavy of Kingfisher.

EPIC Charter Schools, in its first-ever virtual graduation ceremony to honor the Class of 2020, conferred diplomas on 3,805 students on Saturday, June 6. The virtual ceremony included recorded remarks from notable Oklahoma speakers such as former Gov.

The spring is annually a time when the most coaching moves are made statewide. This year’s turnover rate was considerably less overall, but there were still a few major moves around the county.

The Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education has awarded just over $2.35 million in lottery grants to CareerTech programs for the 2020-21 school year, along with $500,000 in scholarships in the 2019-20 school year.

Alumni of two county high schools recently were initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Inducted were Charles Patocka of Hennessey and Addison Themer of Kingfisher.

Kingfisher County commissioners tabled action on renewing the contract of Total Assessment Solutions Corp.(TASC) in the amount of $55,000 at their weekly meeting Monday. The company has been assessing oil and gas properties for ad valorem tax purposes.

Columnist extraordinaire Victor Davis Hanson points out in a recent column that China isn’t letting the pandemic it created go to waste. Rather, China is shedding its former friendly image to go full bore nasty guy.

Retired St. Louis Police Department Captain David Dorn was killed early Tuesday morning outside of a local pawn shop he was reportedly defending from suspected looters, more than 40 years after his time at the police academy, and 13 years after his retirement from the police department.

While it might not be popular to say in the wake of the recent social disorder, the true plight of black people has little or nothing to do with the police or what has been called “systemic racism.” Instead, we need to look at the responsibilities of those running our big cities.