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Top county grads, favorite teachers attend banquet

Kingfisher County’s Academic All-Staters and their guest teachers were recognized at the recent Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence Awards Banquet.

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State’s economy still expanding; treasurer credits O&G production

Aided by record collections from oil and gas production, the state’s gross receipts for June and for the just-ended fiscal year show the economy continues to expand in spite of current inflationary pressure, State Treasurer Randy McDaniel said.

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Still Pro-DUCK-tive in Year 23

Kingfisher Educational Foundation “sold” and raced 446 rubber ducks Wednesday night at Vernie Snow Aquatic Center in the organization’s 23 annual duck race, raising more than $22,000 to fund grants for teacher-designed classroom enrichment projects. Despite a rocky start with a malfunctioning fan, board members David Blair, Vaynna Borelli, Kristi Hyatt, Jeff Wilcox, Sara Garrett, Jeff Johnson and Zac Kannady, from left, managed to get the flock across the pool to name this year’s prize-winners: John and Madi Wald, first ($1,000); Johnsons of Kingfisher, second ($500); Mike and Judy Johnson, third ($300), and State Farm Insurance and Case Mercer, tie for last ($100 each).

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WWII Vet: ‘Not the America we fought for’

I often wonder what American military veterans think about in reference to the state of the nation in 2022.

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‘AMERICAN BIRTHRIGHT’: NATIONAL EXPERTS PROPOSE SCHOOL CIVICS STANDARDS

To improve education in all 50 states and counter the anti-Americanism that has infected many civics classrooms, a national organization has developed a new set of academic standards for K-12 social-studies classes that can serve as a framework for each individual state’s standards, including in Oklahoma.

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Losing Ground

Ever since I subscribed to my first livestock periodical at the age of 15 my favorite section to read has always been the ranch real estate ads because to me, dirt is the secret to prosperity and happiness. Land is a much better investment than cattle because land doesn’t run away or die from anaplasmosis.

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STAR PARKER: SCOTUS decisions due to change political landscape

With the Supreme Court concluding one of the most historic and consequential terms in its history, it leaves in its wake consequences and implications for the direction of our country.

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