Kingfisher Oklahoma

Kingfisher Middle School recently announced its Students of the Month for November 2019. Recognized were, from left: Sophia Dudzinski, fi fth grade; T.J. Washington, sixth grade; Terry-Ann McCully, seventh grade; and Cy Jones, eighth grade. [Photo provided]

Two former Kingfisher County baseball standouts will be teammates for one more season, but will venture their different ways afterward. Austin Neal and Miguel Obeso signed last month to continue their baseball careers at four-year schools.

Aaron West said it was like watching two different teams. The Okarche boys basketball coach watched his Warriors dig themselves a 15-point deficit last Friday night only to come away with a 54-44 homecoming win against Oklahoma Christian Academy. “It was a tale of two halves,” West said.

Oklahoma Bible Academy used a dominant third quarter last Friday to spoil Dover’s basketball homecoming. Prior to the games, Yazaret Gamez and Trinton Ritz were crowned homecoming queen and king. In the boys game, the Trojans outscored the host squad 14-4 in the third en route to a 65-52 victory.

Lomega dialed up a long distance homecoming win against Union City. The Lady Raiders buried 15 3-pointers as part of an 84–47 victory last Friday night. The sharpshooting helped improve Lomega to 4-2 entering the Thanksgiving break. Prior to the game, Hensley Eaton was crowned homecoming queen.

Wrestling and basketball seasons offi cially begin this week for Kingfi sher High School teams. The KHS wrestling squad will open the season Tuesday, Dec. 3, at home against Weatherford. The dual will be held at the APB. Junior high teams will begin at 6 p.m.

Evelyn Pauline Schemmer, 88, passed from this life peacefully with family by her side on Nov. 25, 2019, at Countrywood Assisted Living in Kingfi sher. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Monday, Dec. 2, at the Federated Church in Kingfi sher with Reverend Dr.

Roads a mess; now what? Looks like the huge railroad offloading frac sand facility has closed. Chains and cones up, facility is deserted. I believe it sits on State School land. Now what happens? Kingfisher and Blaine county roads look like third world country infrastructure.

Volunteers who work an unpaid second job for nearly three months getting displays up and running for Kingfisher Winter Nights came upon a dismaying scene Saturday morning. Seven of the lighted metal candy canes lining the drive at the north park entrance had apparently been run over by a vehicle.

After a hearing late Friday afternoon, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission issued an emergency order allowing the agency to acquire funds to mitigate the surface impact from a saltwater spring bubbling up in a fi eld southwest of Omega.