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State licensure boards are an important, although often overlooked, component of job opportunity and economic growth. The boards control access to professions. If operated appropriately, they provide consumer protection while allowing the most qualified people possible to enter a profession, which increases competition and keeps prices down for consumers.
Read moreDOVER ( Second in a series on Kingfisher County town histories.) Situated in Kingfisher County north of the Cimarron River, Dover lies on U.S. Highway 81, nine miles north of Kingfisher, the county seat. The surrounding area had been leased by cattlemen and was commonly called Red Fork Traders’ Ranch because a trading post existed there. The ranch, and future location of Dover, lay along a government road and stage route from Kansas to Fort Reno and near the Chisholm Trail, the pathway of millions of cattle herded from Texas to Kansas in the 1880s.
Read morePros still puzzled by Dems’ 2022 success
Read moreMultiple rounds of tryouts and various competitions have recently seen eight Kingfisher Public Schools choir students garner all-state recognition.
Read moreCreation of a Hennessey Historical Society to restore or fund a new library received a unanimous showof- hands approval from all 17 in the audience during the town’s Library Building Committee meeting last week.
Read moreKingfisher Meals on Wheels is seeking local donations to help finance its mission to feed hot, nutritious meals to the area’s elderly and homebound residents.
Read moreA nonprofit organization is offering to pay for the legal defense of teachers accused of violating a law that bans teaching children that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex.”
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