Kingfisher Oklahoma

Six people had filed for various municipal offices as of press time of this edition.A majority of them were for the two trustee positions open in Hennessey.Filing began Monday and ran through 5 p.m. Wednesday for positions in Kingfisher, Hennessey and Dover.

Kingfisher Public Schools’ financial audit for 2023-24 offered no major red flags.The report of the audit’s findings were presented to board of education members Monday during their February regular meeting.The audit was prepared by Britton, Kuykendall & Miller CPAs of Weatherford.

President Donald Trump recently floated a fantastic idea: Arab nations, he said, should accept large numbers of Gazans as refugees, a move that “could be temporary or long term.

Lee E. Briix, a retired Hennessey High School history teacher, is making his rounds in Kingfisher County this week to sell, and sign, his first historical fiction book: “Train to Muddy Waters.

[ Bradley Devlin is politics editor for The Daily Signal. Send an email to Bradley.]The budget reconciliation process stands as President Donald Trump’s and congressional Republicans’ best—and likely only— hope to pass their agenda through Congress.

from behind the plow(A column of opinion by Gary Reid, Publisher Emeritus)Area oil drilling pickup observedKeb Lehenbauer, sales representative for Railroad Yard of Stillwater, mentioned to me at last week’s county commissioner meeting that he saw five new drilling pads going in recently on a swing...

Instead of fun and games this week I’d like to write about what I call “the outside disease” because most of the people I’ve met with skin cancer lived their life outside in the sun, like farmers, ranchers, roustabouts, roughnecks and roofers.

Kingfisher County commissioners heard lengthy reports on two matters at their weekly meeting Monday.John Gooden, chairman of Kingfisher Trails, said he was appearing on the matter of the Kingfisher Airport Authority’s planned runway extension to allow larger planes to utilize the runway.

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