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A popular Twitter post by an Oklahoma City meteoroligist circulating last week illustrated his prediction for the warmest Christmas on record with a state temperature map entitled “White Christmas Definitely No.” Record temperatures may be a news story, but no white Christmas is not much of a surprise. Kingfisher High School sophomore Eli Johnson, 16, right, was 4 years old the one and only time he woke up to Christmas morning snow (left, a photo taken by his dad Jeff and published in the Times & Free Press in 2009). In fact, the average Christmas Day high temperature for Kingfisher for the past 10 years is 52.1. Even if the predicted 73 degree high for Saturday materializes in Kingfisher, it’s still a degree cooler than Christmas Day 2016. [Provided Photos]
Read moreKingfisher County ad valorem tax rolls opened for collection last week.
Read moreKingfisher Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Shauna Rupp said Jan. 7 is the deadline to nominate citizens and volunteers of the year for the 2021 Chamber Banquet, scheduled Jan. 31.
Read moreDr. Anthony Fauci is warning that the Omicron variant of Covid is upon us and soon hospitals may be overwhelmed by the unvaccinated.
Read morePeople have been going on diets long before Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers or Oprah Winfrey. The first diet was probably William the Conquerer’s all-alcohol diet. Once morbidly obese, William lost so much weight he was able to start riding his muchloved horse again. Then he promptly died in a horse riding accident. Proving that everything old is new again, in the 1960’s a couple of authors revisited the alcohol diet and wrote two books called “The Drinking Man’s Diet” and “Martinis and Whipped Cream”. My old man was on the same alcohol diet the entire time I knew him and he eventually lost 200 pounds of ugly fat all in one day!
Read more[Ed. Note: Rachel Greszler is research fellow in economics, budget, and entitlements in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, of the Institute for Economic Freedom, at The Heritage Foundation.]
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