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The tragic killing of two U.S. citizens this week in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, should, in a just world, refocus American attention on the glaring problem of transnational drug cartels’ de facto control of large swaths of our perilously porous southern border. That the two Americans killed may have been mistaken by warring cartel clans for Haitian drug smugglers, as The Dallas Morning News reported, hardly ameliorates the awful situation or lessens our imperative to recalibrate attention away from faraway proxy wars of dubious national interest, and toward the very monsters in our own backyard who run the Western hemisphere’s worst human trafficking rings and flood the U.S. interior with the most lethal drugs known to man.
Read moreHennessey’s Board of Adjustment made an exception to a 2021 zoning law that prohibits a fiveyear, or older, mobile home being moved onto another property.
Read moreThe University of Central Oklahoma recently announced the students named to the its honor rolls, a distinction given to those who achieve the highest academic standards.
Read moreHennessey Town Trustee Harold Shaw’s request for an audit by the state Auditor and Inspector’s office was shelved at Thursday night’s town meeting.
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The Cashion Chapter of the Business Professionals of America (BPA) had a successful State Leadership Conference last week in Tulsa.
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Sen. Tom Coburn’s Book
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Kingfisher County Game Ranger Blake Pearson, left, was the guest speaker of the Kingfi sher Lions earlier this month. He told the members and guests that there are currently 135 full-time game rangers across the state, with typically one per county west of I-35 and two or more per county on the eastern side of the state. Pearson said the deer population of Kingfisher County was healthy, but noted that the turkey population was decreasing of late, for the same reasons for the decrease of the quail population, which includes loss of habitat and an increase in the number of predators, including hawks and coyotes. Because turkeys nest on the ground, any number of animals including skunks, possums and raccoons will eat their eggs. He also said that lifetime hunting and fishing license prices will increase within the next year and he encouraged those inclined to do so to get their licenses now to avoid the increase. Pearson was raised in Watonga and now resides in Kingfisher County with his family. He is pictured with Kingfisher Lions Club member Gerald McMullin.
Read moreKingfisher Rotary Club is currently accepting applications for its annual John A. Francis Scholarship recipient.
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