Kingfisher Oklahoma

Friend John said when he took his 10-year-old car in to be serviced the mechanic said his brakes looked brand new, and asked his secret. He told the guy, “I don’t let my wife drive it. She rides the brakes.” Ouch! I confessed that my husband, Bill, always said I did too.

Western civilization was founded on a set of philosophies that focus strongly on the sanctity of individuals and their power of logic and reason. This belief led to a desire to trust things that could be proven to be true or legitimate, from government to science.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday promised to roll out soon a health care proposal that “blows away” Obamacare, while receiving credit for another health care measure he signed into law in 2017.

When our farm to market roads were built about 50 years ago, the heavy traffic was pretty much two-ton trucks hauling wheat to elevators. The stock trailers weren’t big fourteen-, sixteen-foot bumper pull – a few semi trucks, oil trucks and water trucks, not all that many.

The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission approved changes affecting harvest reporting of alligator gar and black bear hunting during its regular June meeting Monday at the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation headquarters in Oklahoma City.

Kristi Adkins of Cashion recently earned a master’s degree in nursing from Simmons University in Boston.

The Fourth of July is for fireworks. The fifth is for t-ball... at least for the Kingfisher Smash. The collection of Kingfisher youth punched their ticket to the OK Kids state t-ball tournament with last Saturday’s regional championship.

One of Kingfisher’s former All-State baseball players has at least two more years to go in his career. Matt Hopkins recently signed to play baseball at Emporia State University in Kansas. He recently completed a two-year stint at Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, Kan.

Velma Colleen Ray Case, 89, died unexpectedly Saturday afternoon in her Ponca City home, attended by family members. Velma and her husband, Robert, were former longtime Kingfisher residents and she was a former columnist for the Kingfisher Times & Free Press.

Colleen V. Evans, 88 was born in Kingfisher on Aug. 30, 1930, to John and Deta Wickham and passed away Wednesday May 29, 2019. Cremation arrangements are by Cordry-Gritz Funeral Home, Hennessey. Colleen was raised in Kingfisher and graduated from Kingfisher High School.