Kingfisher Oklahoma

Kingfisher County commissioners approved a change order on the contract for roof repairs at the Kingfisher County Courthouse Monday. It authorizes the complete removal and replacement of the southwest awning, changing it to a coating repair while retaining the warranty.

Kingfisher County Treasurer Robin Rother, left, is sworn in to a new term by Associate District Judge Lance Schneiter in a ceremony Monday. [KT-FP Staff Photo]

ON TARGET TO PLAY 2019-20 BASKETBALL – After a Hennessey school board noon meeting last Wednesday, members donned construction helmets and headed across the street. That’s where they went to the second floor of the $8.4 million construction site of The Dome.

Local singer-songwriter Emily Faith will perform in a free concert at 7:30 p.m. July 4 at Homier Field in Kingfisher Park, just before the fireworks. The daughter of Chad and Shelley Sanders of Kingfisher, Emily made her first vocal debut on a local stage at age 5.

July 2: DUCK RACE 6 p.m. Vernie Snow Aquatic Center Four lucky duck sponsors will take home prize money at the end of this fast, madcap race: First-third place ducks earn $1,000, $500 and $300 respectively and the last over the finish line earns $100.

Kingfisher County has turned the corner on the 2019 wheat harvest after a week of dry, hot days.

SAFEAn assessment team from the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality lifted the boil order on Kingfisher water Tuesday.“The water is now safe for human consumption.” DEQ said in a statement issued at 2:47 p.m. Tuesday.Well No.

FREEDOM FIGHTER Tim Taylor wanted to be Rambo when he was growing up. He got close. A 2002 Kingfisher High School graduate, Taylor spent 10 years in the U.S. Army, was deployed four times to the Middle East and took part in more than his share of combat. He wanted it no other way.

The Super Bowl of 1987 marks an important day for members of First Baptist Church Kingfisher. That was the day Harold Drake began serving as the minister of music for the church. Now, 32 years later, Drake and his wife Drulaine are retiring from their duties at the church.

Probably not a majority of Americans alive today remember when the shah of Iran was on the throne. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was a friend of America in the Middle East but was ousted in 1979 – in a coup a year after his government shot some student demonstrators.