Kingfisher Oklahoma

Linda Borelli, 85, longtime resident of Kingfisher, died Saturday March 15, 2025, in Kingfisher.Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 20, at Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Kingfisher with Father Benjamin Lwin officiating.Burial will follow at Kingfisher Cemetery.

Pat “Patsy” Lee Leedy was born Sept. 5, 1935, in Whittier, Calif., to Harry and Dorrys (Bordelon) McPheeters. She returned home to her Lord and Savior on March 15, 2025, in Kingfisher.Pat grew up in Houston, Texas, with her parents and two sisters, Barbara Ann and Nikki.

Kingfisher’s Taylor Young was voted Coach of the Year by her peers in the Western Athletic Conference for the 2024-25 basketball season.The Lady Jackets’ lone senior - Raegan Snider - was voted the Offensive Player of the Year as well as a spot on the all-conference first team.

Junior Hayes White was a second-team selection for the Western Athletic Conference all-conference team.The honor is voted on by coaches.The Kingfisher guard led the Jackets with 19.4 points, 3.7 assists and 2.7 steals a contest. He added 4.6 rebounds a game.

Pressley Page is headed back to the Elks Hoop Shoot national competition. Pressley, right, won the Region 11 championship in the 10-11 year-old girls division Saturday morning in Dallas. The competition featured state Hoop Shoot champions from Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico.

If you drove down Oklahoma Avenue in Hennessey in the last few weeks, you knew it was basketball playoffs because parking at The Eagle Event Center was packed.That fact certainly wasn’t lost on HPS Superintendent Jason Sternberger during last Monday night’s monthly school board meeting.

It’s been cold.It’s been hot. It’s been long. It’s been hard. But the smile on Hunter Wittrock’s face tells a different story.“To me it feels like pure joy!” he said.

Mike Conn will be the featured speaker at the next major Kingfisher Chamber of Commerce event.Conn is a consultant and coach who speaks at multiple business functions and is the owner of Mike Conn Coaching and Consulting.He’ll be speaking at the Biz-Connect Luncheon planned for 11:30 a.m.

HITTING THE BOOKS – The Kingfi sher High School girls basketball team saw its season come to a close Wednesday night with a loss to Locust Grove in the Class 4A state quarterfi nals at State Fair Arena (See Story on Page 7). However, the team didn’t come home empty-handed.

Washington D.C. rot is not that newThe rot in the nation’s capitol as exposed by President Trump and DOGE chairman Elon Musk is not new.It has been growing like a cancer for almost a century.