Kingfisher Oklahoma

Kingfisher city commissioners recognized retiring Police Chief Dennis Baker and then appointed Assistant Chief David Catron as his successor at their monthly meeting Monday night.

Rachel Cameron, Kingfisher nurse practitioner and founder of Trail Creek Wellness Center, was recognized Friday as one of the state’s “Health Care Heroes.

Kingfisher County Commissioner Districts 1 and 2 have been approved to receive $99,300.41 in federal emergency relief for damage to the Dover-Crescent Road. The damage occurred during 2019 flood events. District 2 was approved for $55,454.67 and District 1 for $43,845.74.

Dennis Baker says he was in his early 20s when he joined the Kingfisher Police Department back in September of 1989. But when he showed up at the Times & Free Press office for the obligatory new officer photo and story, he looked about 15.

The deep political (and cultural) divide in America was explained last week when New York Sen. Charles Schumer, minority leader, threatened recently-seated Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.

China’s state-run propaganda outlets are circulating false stories on the coronavirus situation in the United States in order to take the focus away from the origin of the outbreak and criticism of the communist regime’s handling of it in China, reports say.

Sen. Bernie Sanders said: “I believe that health care is a right of all people.” He’s not alone in that contention. That claim comes from Democrats and Republicans and liberals and conservatives. It is not just a health care right that people claim.

[Ed. Note: Greg Forster (Ph.D., Yale University) is a Friedman Fellow with EdChoice. He has conducted numerous empirical studies on education issues, including school choice, accountability testing, graduation rates, student demographics, and special education.

Perhaps Lomega’s dominance of Class B girls basketball this season was best summed up by coach Kevin Lewallen’s reaction when one of his best players fouled out with 1:52 left - in the third quarter! - of the state championship game. It wasn’t disgust. It wasn’t panic.

Before his team even walked out of the locker room Friday night, John Hardaway felt good about Saturday. Cashion backed up his intuition by erasing a 24-year drought.