Kingfisher Oklahoma

The FEMA mobile disaster recovery center will return for a second round of assisting citizens with flood losses on Friday and Saturday, July 26 and July 27, and Monday and Tuesday, July 29-30.

Based on the comfortable stereotypes we’ve grown up with, the term “grandmother’s ministry,” likely evokes images of bootie knitting, choir singing, pie baking and the other comforting ways grandmas find to serve and give.

Kingfisher Middle School’s Breona McConnell received accolades for her work and won a pair of awards at the second annual Southwest Alliance for Girls’ Enrichment in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts/Humanities and Mathematics (SAGE STEAM) Camp at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in...

Hennessey will soon replace its 10-year-old No. 1 ambulance with a 2017 model and also replace a 2014 Ford Explorer police vehicle, dubbed a lemon, with a 2019 Ford SUV. The new ambulance cost is $81,000 and has a three-year warranty from Emergency Service Supply out of Jefferson City.

The start of school is two weeks away for some county students. That includes Hennessey, which has enrollment next week. Enrollment is 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday, July 25, at the elementary school gym.

Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s 64th annual band camp recently attracted 439 students from four states to the Weatherford campus for Oklahoma’s oldest and longest-running band camp.

Oklahoma Blood Institute has two blood drives planned in Kingfisher at the end of this month. Scheduled drives are: • Tuesday, July 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cimarron Electric Cooperative; • Wednesday, July 31, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Kingfisher Walmart.

The Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association recently recognized State Rep. Mike Sanders of Kingfisher with its Legislative Appreciation Award.

VIEW from behind the plow CNN, the left-wing television outfit, confidently proclaims that the “Squad,” a group of recently elected far-out leftist representatives who appear to hate America, “has President Donald Trump’s number.

Years ago a hairdresser told me I had an odd-shaped head. She had scissors in her hand so I kept my mouth shut. I also assumed she’d cover up my grotesque-shaped head with my curly hair. I didn’t forget the slight though, and told a friend that evening.