Kingfisher Oklahoma

Cashion and Wellston scored at a torrid pace in the first quarter of their girls basketball game last Friday night. Only one of them kept it up. The visiting Lady Wildcats put the defensive clamps on Wellston over the final three quarters to earn a 79-37 victory.

Even as unseasonably mild weather and sunny days over the weekend gave way to frostier temperatures Tuesday, the county was still producing some of the state’s famously beautiful prairie sunrises.

Contracts were awarded Wednesday for the first phase of a project that will eventually lead to a new seventh and eighth grade center for Kingfisher Public Schools.

Independents and Republicans continue to grow as a share of registered Oklahoma voters, according to the latest statistics released from the Oklahoma State Election Board. Oklahoma’s official voter registration statistics are counted every year on Jan.

Gary Reid celebrates two important milestones each year at this time – his fi rst foray into the world of newspapers as a fresh-faced journalism graduate from Oklahoma State University and his arrival in Kingfisher as the new publisher of the Times & Free Press.

MAKING THE GRADE Even before the state released the Oklahoma School Report Cards, administrators and staff at Kingfi sher Public Schools were at work on plans to continually improve the district from the youngest grades to the oldest.

Hennessey Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Mike Woods was rehired for the 2020-21 school year at last Tuesday’s school board meeting after 90 minutes in closed session. Action on his pay and contract will come later.

CITY AND SCHOOL issues dominated the first Kingfisher County Republican Women luncheon of 2020 last week. Kingfisher school board candidates Susannah Copeland, Servrina Prim, first and second from left, and incumbent Carly Franks, far right, introduced themselves.

I was told by an old-school Oklahoma newsman many years ago that one of the primary jobs of a good newspaper was to be a cheerleader for the people and businesses that make life in a community better.

The Oklahoma Scholarship Competition provides an opportunity for Oklahoma high school students to earn cash scholarships and tuition grants for college. With at least 19 scholarships in each county available, students compete based on their knowledge of Oklahoma history, its people and geography.