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Kingfisher Oklahoma

October new date for U.S. 81 finish

Although work is now progressing well on the U.S. 81 project south of Kingfisher, record rainfall earlier this year has pushed the estimated completion date back to mid to late October, an ODOT spokesperson said Tuesday.

GRAND DAY

KINGFISHER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE hosted grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremonies for several new businesses last month as part of the “It’s a Grand Day in Kingfisher” promotion throughout town.

It’s now a family tradition

Bregenzer daughters Whitney and Kendal had a Koolaid stand 25 years ago with the help of their dad, Mark (pictured above...and surely mom Valerie, not pictured).

Mueller hearing a major flop

VIEW from behind the plow The House hearings with former special counsel Robert Mueller regarding the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election last week provided no bombshells.

All friendships don’t start ‘friendly’

Wearing skirts and sandals to work came to a halt when I first got a taste of community journalism in June 1978. Especially when it came to an uncontrolled control burn west of Hennessey while I climbed over a barbed wire fence to take photos. It was at a lovegrass fire where I met Jack Choate Jr.

Being a racist is easy today

A MINORITY OPINION: Years ago, it was hard to be a racist. You had to be fitted for and spend money on a white gown and don a pointy hat. You celebrated racism by getting some burlap, wrapping it around a cross, setting it ablaze and dancing around it carrying torches.

Oklahomans paying to educate ‘ghost students’

When news broke that the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation had filed a search warrant accusing Epic Charter Schools of receiving state funding for “ghost students” who did not attend school through the online provider and, in one case, had even left the state the prior year, it understandably...

KHS has stellar All-State showing

During his tenure as Kingfisher High School girls basketball coach, one of the additions Jay Wood made to the locker room was a wall with all of the Lady Jackets who have earned All-State in that sport.
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