Kingfisher Oklahoma

While some local youth spent their fall and winter donning football helmets, basketball shoes or wrestling singlets, Harlyn Albers took a different approach.

Big Pasture repeated as team champion, but there was a new medalist at the 2019 Kingfisher High School Small-School Invitational. Crescent’s Dominic Stevens carded the lowest round of the tournament as he shot a 71 in blustery conditions Wednesday at Kingfisher Golf Course.

Kingfisher’s win against Elk City last week may have locked up its second-ever soccer playoff berth. The Yellowjackets dealt the Elks a 4A-2 defeat at home.

Kingfisher’s girls won four golds, but just missed out on a team track title last week. Madeline Loosen had two first-place finishes Tuesday while Maddie St. Cyr and Ally Stephenson had one of their own at the 2019 OBU Bison Invitational in Shawnee.

KHS BASEBALL Kingfisher let a nine-run lead slip away and saw its 14-game win streak go with it. Edmond Memorial erased deficits of 10-1 and then 11-7 by scoring the game’s eight final runs to beat KHS 15-11 at Homier Field.

For The Times & Free Press After two public hearings Monday night, the Hennessey Board of Trustees put the final stamp needed to change zoning of 43.74 acres in the southeast part of town from general agriculture to general industrial. All votes were unanimous.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol will soon be accepting applications for the 66th Oklahoma Highway Patrol Academy. This is the first academy to be introduced since the 65th OHP Academy initiated its cadets in January 2018, graduating 29 new Troopers on June 15, 2018. The proposed start date of Dec.

Four Okarche speech students received state medals as the 2018-19 competitive speech season came to an end at the Oklahoma State Speech and Debate Tournament.   Katie and Rob Bomhoff placed third in humorous duet.

VIEW from behind the plow A longtime friend, Jimmy, told us last week he doesn’t agree with our editorial positions. That’s okay. We don’t base friendship on agreement about political issues. The friend cited one point of disagreement as the border wall. He says “let everybody in.

It was a typical Saturday. The weather was nice and we had just arrived back to the house after a trip to Oklahoma City. My dogs, Carmen and Scout, immediately needed outside upon entrance to the house. I left the door open and let them out as I have done hundreds of times.