Kingfisher Oklahoma

Hennessey was able to break its string of narrow defeats…only for the joy to be temporary.The Eagles visited Perry last Friday and came home with a 47-34 victory.It snapped a four-game skid, the last three of which were by a total of 10 points.

It’s the hard work.It’s the competition. But it’s also the team dinners.And those trips to Walmart.All of that came together last weekend as the Bob-Bots qualified for the FIRST Tech Challenge program’s state competition.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 4-1 on Wednesday to deny clemency for Wendell Grissom, who was sentenced to death for shooting a woman while she was cradling a baby in her arms.

The trial date for Kingfisher High School’s former football coach has been set.Jeff Myers will face a jury trial beginning 9 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14.That order was handed down Wednesday morning by District Judge Paul Woodward as Myers made an appearance in Kingfisher County District Court.

No race developed in Kingfisher, but did elsewhere in the county as the filing period for municipal seats closed Wednesday.Incumbent Jeff Wittrock was the lone person to file for the Kingfisher City Commission Seat 2 that he currently holds.

The Kingfisher High School robotics team is offi cially called the Bob-Bots (more specifically, Team #23703).But where did the name Bob-Bots come from?It turns out there’s a history between “Bob” and several team members.

Amber Matthews’ final act on earth was to shield Dreu Kopf’s children from a murderer.In doing so, the 23-year-old lost her life in November 2005 when Wendell Grissom and Jessie Johns broke into Kopf’s home in Blaine County. ( Note: See related story).

[A member of the Internet Pen Turners Association (IPA) Forum penned a column on a “second” Noah’s Ark, which was copied and reprinted on an Internet discussion site, One Political Plaza. I thought others might enjoy it.

[ Tyler O’Neil is managing editor of The Daily Signal and the author of two books: “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.

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