Kingfisher Oklahoma

For over a year, Debbie Burpo hadn’t seen her… didn’t know how or where she was, until she stepped into her office that day.

Occasionally an event will cause a return of old memories, some that might better be forgotten. That happened to Robert Dougherty, 73, of Okarche recently when he dropped off a news release at the Times & Free Press Office about the Pleiku (Vietnam) Air Base Association, of which he is a member.

Kingfisher County commissioners approved a CIRB agreement for a bridge over Turkey Creek in District 2 at their weekly meeting Tuesday.

In Sunday’s edition, we published a letter on Page 5 from Jonathan Small, president of the prestigious Oklahoma think tank, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, about the ill treatment he received from a leader of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

An innocent man’s life was knowingly, wholly and intentionally shattered to advance the political goals of a party that had lost an honest election.

Is it important to have racial or sexual diversity in our fight against the COVID-19 pandemic? Heather Mac Donald suggests that some think it might be in her City Journal article “Should Identity Politics Dictate Vaccine Research?

[Ed. Note: Kay C. James is president of The Heritage Foundation. James formerly served as director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and as Virginia’s secretary of health and human resources. She is also the founder and president of The Gloucester Institute.

The deadline is quickly approaching to apply for voter registration for the June 30 election. Deadline to be eligible for that busy election day is Friday, June 5, said Kingfisher County Election Board Secretary Shawna Butts.

Legislation granting cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for retirees in six Oklahoma pension plans, including teachers, firefighters, police, public employees and justices and judges was signed into law by the governor last week.

Ovintiv Inc. last week announced plans to contribute $150,000 to charitable and community organizations and agencies providing emergency food relief and food security across the communities where it operates.