Kingfisher Oklahoma

The second of three big basketball tournament weeks in Oklahoma is on tap this week.All six Kingfisher County schools will be participating across three different tournaments.Kingfisher High School makes its annual trek north of Enid to play in the Wheat Capital Tournament in Chisholm.

The lobby of the Kingfi sher County Courthouse was full Thursday morning.There wasn’t a big court case taking place, but rather a changing of the guard in several offices inside the courthouse walls and beyond.

Voting begins this week for registered voters in Kingfisher to decide the fate of a sales tax extension to fund a new fire department.The election to extend a one-half cent sales tax for an additional 10 years will be held Tuesday, Jan. 14.However, early voting begins Thursday, Jan.

A Cashion first grader was part of a group that brought home a bronze medal from a national soccer event.Bentley Maloy and his four teammates placed third in the U8 division at the 3V3 Live National Soccer Tour’s national tournament.Bentley is the son of Brandon and Kelley Maloy.

Teams aren’t the only groups who performed for the right to advance in the NCAA football playoffs this season. Offi ciating crews do so as well.

Audrey Streb is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation.China and the U.S. signed a science cooperation agreement this month, an agreement that has been renewed every five years since 1979—yet one expert urges that this time, it’s “inexcusable.

Tyler O’Neil @Tyler2ONeil[ 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.

We wish everyone a happy new year. There seems to be more optimism at the beginning of this year as opposed to any since the Coronavirus came our way in the fall of 2019.

Kingfisher County Court Clerk Lisa Markus issued marriage licenses recently to the following couples: December 19: Andrew Standing Bear Richardson, 33, and Haley Marie Holland, 30, both of Kingfisher.December 23: Preston Cole Eminger, 26, and Peyton Mackenzie McCormick, 23, both of Kingfisher.