Kingfisher Oklahoma

It wasn’t what I expected, or as I’d feared. It was more of a reunion of friends. Friends and acquaintances that I hadn’t seen in a long time, and it was time. It had been three years. I made excuses for not going the first and second years because I couldn’t accept that I was, I am, a widow.

It’s the Pitts I just finished reading a book about Albert Einstein written by Walter Isaacson and I don’t know what possessed me to do it. It was hard reading and the author used a lot of words I was unfamiliar with like “usufruct”.

In Texas, they are called “politiqueras” and in Florida, they are called “boleteros.” Broadly speaking, these are professional campaign operatives and political activists who have access to absentee ballots and authority to recruit voters.

Country Music History In the 20s and 30s radio was getting popular. If folks couldn’t afford a radio, they went to a friend or relative who had a radio. The innovative folks could make a crystal radio; these were simple and inexpensive. Most folks had a radio.

REP. MIKE SANDERS REPORTS: House Majority Leader Mike Sanders (R-Kingfi sher) said close to 500 new volunteer fi refi ghters have joined rural fire departments four years after he successfully ran legislation that eliminated the age limit for new volunteers.

A noted forensic pathologist hired by the brother of Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy and well-connected pedophile who is alleged to have killed himself in a New York City jail cell, said evidence does not support the city medical examiner’s fi nding of suicide as the cause of Epstein’s death.

Funeral services for Kingfisher native Dennis Baker, 87, are scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at St. John Missionary Baptist Church, 5700 N. Kelley Ave., Oklahoma City, under the direction of Temple & Sons Funeral Directors. Dennis passed away Friday, Oct. 25, 2019.

Two Kingfisher mothers were charged last week with felony child neglect in unrelated cases filed in Kingfi sher County District Court. A warrant was still outstanding at press time Friday for the arrest of Stevie Ray Goodblanket, 31, 221 S. Ninth St.

Kingfisher’seighthgrade football team wrapped up its 2019 campaign on a strong note last Monday. The Jackets beat Cash-ion 42-0 on the road to end their season at 4-4. On a cold, blustery day, it was the run game that carried KMS to the win.

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes are seeking public and local tribal input on plans to construct a community facility and wellness center on the old Kingfi sher Regional Hospital site at 500 S. Ninth St. The center is intended to be utilized by the community at large, as well as by tribal members.