Kingfisher Oklahoma

Kingfisher Study Club met Jan. 8 in the Sherry Blair home with Linda Randall as co-hostess. President Melda Fischer opened the meeting reading from “Live and Learn and Pass It On” then asked the 14 members present to answer roll telling something they had learned in life.

The Kingfisher Bookcase Review Club will meet Monday, Jan. 27. The meeting will be held at 11:30 a.m. at Farm Bureau Insurance, 117 W. Sheridan. A $10 Dutch treat lunch will be served. Kathy Kadavy of Kingfisher will review “Cherokee America” by Margaret Verble.

The Surprise Extension Homemakers met Jan. 16 in the home of Loretta Kretchmar to plan its hostesses and lesson leaders for the 2020 year.

The funeral for Jack G. Witt, 74, was Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, at Dover Christian Church, offi ciated by the Rev. Fred Jones. Burial followed at Dover Cemetery under the direction of Cordry-Gritz Funeral Home in Hennessey. Jack was born in Enid on Oct.

Kingfisher’s Jace Sternberger won’t have the opportunity this year to play in the Super Bowl, but he did have a monumental moment in the NFC Championship Game.

Welcome to the wild west of weed. Eighteen months after Oklahoma voters approved medical marijuana, the state is awash in cannabis retail shops. One in 13 adult Oklahomans has a patient card.

A 31-year-old Geary woman was pronounced dead at the scene of a Jan. 6 traffi c accident on S.H. 270 just west of Chisholm Road east of Geary, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Michelle A. Brockman of Geary was driving a 2008 Mini Cooper that was traveling east on S.H.

VIEW from behind the plow An old axiom goes: “It’s lonely at the top.” Having the final word would be the worst part of being president. The head guy (or gal) is responsible for the whole shebang, including pulling the trigger on a truly bad man.

Gov. Kevin Stitt says the debate over the fees casino operators pay Oklahoma government for monopoly rights must focus on market value.

The justice system sentenced me to a day in their custody last week. I got called for jury duty. There were a couple reasons I didn’t call in sick.