Lights are on - literally - as KWN opens 2024 season
Lights are on - literally - as KWN opens 2024 season
![FIREWORKS, LASERS and creative, lighted parade floats are all a part of the annual Christmas parade festivities in Kingfi sher. This year’s parade starts at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7. [KT&FP Staff Photos]](https://kingfisherpress.etypegoogle10.com/sites/kingfisherpress.etypegoogle10.com/files/styles/slideshow_1170x780/public/1a9ac5477f_Ar00103004.jpg?itok=glro5yhz "FIREWORKS, LASERS and creative, lighted parade floats are all a part of the annual Christmas parade festivities in Kingfi sher. This year’s parade starts at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7. [KT&FP Staff Photos]")
Crafts, food, shopping, 5K just part of Saturday’s activities as thousands expected to attend
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![KHS CHOIR members performed during the Kingfi sher Chamber of Commerce Christmas tree lighting ceremony last weekend. Some of the selections they sang were from the “Elf The Musical JR.” which they’ll present along with drama students three different times later this month in the auditorium at Kingfi sher Heritage School. [KT&FP Staff Photo]](https://kingfisherpress.etypegoogle10.com/sites/kingfisherpress.etypegoogle10.com/files/styles/slideshow_1170x780/public/khs_choir.jpg?itok=6ICTXNvW "KHS CHOIR members performed during the Kingfi sher Chamber of Commerce Christmas tree lighting ceremony last weekend. Some of the selections they sang were from the “Elf The Musical JR.” which they’ll present along with drama students three different times later this month in the auditorium at Kingfi sher Heritage School. [KT&FP Staff Photo]")
County residents soon will have the opportunity to embrace their inner “elf.”
![HENNESSEY ALL-DISTRICT players for 2024 include, from left: top row, Gunnar Holder, Jessin Hardin and Hunter Weber; middle row, Jakob Johns, Brandon Rodriguez and Gunner Carthel; and bottom row, Kevin Trillo and Braedyn Richardson. [Photos by Chris Simon/ www.simon-sports-photos.smugmug.com]](https://kingfisherpress.etypegoogle10.com/sites/kingfisherpress.etypegoogle10.com/files/styles/slideshow_1170x780/public/8_eagles_snag_all-district_honors1.jpg?itok=-GF20OJZ "HENNESSEY ALL-DISTRICT players for 2024 include, from left: top row, Gunnar Holder, Jessin Hardin and Hunter Weber; middle row, Jakob Johns, Brandon Rodriguez and Gunner Carthel; and bottom row, Kevin Trillo and Braedyn Richardson. [Photos by Chris Simon/ www.simon-sports-photos.smugmug.com]")
Eight members of the Hennessey High School football team grabbed 2A-1 All-District honors this week.
![DENNIS BANTHER stands outside the Kingfi sher County Criminal Justice Center in December 2020. Moving from the old jailhouse to the new facility was just one of many major changes the sheriff’s offi ce made during Banther’s tenure, which will come to a close at the end of this year. [KT&FP Staff Photo]](https://kingfisherpress.etypegoogle10.com/sites/kingfisherpress.etypegoogle10.com/files/styles/slideshow_1170x780/public/dennis_banther.jpg?itok=l0Yv1DUZ "DENNIS BANTHER stands outside the Kingfi sher County Criminal Justice Center in December 2020. Moving from the old jailhouse to the new facility was just one of many major changes the sheriff’s offi ce made during Banther’s tenure, which will come to a close at the end of this year. [KT&FP Staff Photo]")
Longtime sheriff will miss bond with other officers, won’t miss time away from family
Hennessey Elementary announced its Eagles of the Week for the week ending Nov. 22. Earning the honor were pre-kindergarten students Adleigh Semrad, Ivette Fraire and Vaeyda Reiger; kindergarten students Sheyla Nunez, Ivette Castonon and Lennox Faulkner; first graders Alexander Torres, Laila Trotter, Rodrigo Villarreal and Jaycee Duran; second graders Emery Vonschultes, Valentin Lopez and Mateo Montes; third graders Tempe Plumlee, Braylynn Snyder and Brayden Heinen; and fourth graders Tallas Sullivan, Ittzel Ramirez, Hannah Weaver and Isaac Wren. [Photo provided]
Affected staff members to learn fate this week
Lights are on - literally - as KWN opens 2024 season
Crafts, food, shopping, 5K just part of Saturday’s activities as thousands expected to attend
OKARCHE WARRIOR BASKETBALL
Eight members of the Hennessey High School football team grabbed 2A-1 All-District honors this week.
Kingfisher High School opens its basketball season at home this Tuesday, Dec. 3.
Kingfisher’s Wrigley Kennedy earned All-Great American Conference honors for his efforts in the 2024 football season.
There is no foreshadowing in Hallmark Christmas movies.
‘The Atlantic’ and the Daffy Professor
The funeral for Butch Overbay, 65, was Monday, Dec. 2, at First Christian Church in Hennessey offi ciated by Rev. Ish Engle and Jimmy Berkenbile. Burial followed at Hennessey Cemetery under the direction of Cordry-Gritz Funeral Home.
Colleen Mae Smith Willms, 86, of Kingfisher, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024.
![FIREWORKS, LASERS and creative, lighted parade floats are all a part of the annual Christmas parade festivities in Kingfi sher. This year’s parade starts at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7. [KT&FP Staff Photos]](https://kingfisherpress.etypegoogle10.com/sites/kingfisherpress.etypegoogle10.com/files/styles/thumbnail_150/public/1a9ac5477f_Ar00103004.jpg?itok=w6-HhUYV "FIREWORKS, LASERS and creative, lighted parade floats are all a part of the annual Christmas parade festivities in Kingfi sher. This year’s parade starts at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7. [KT&FP Staff Photos]")
![HENNESSEY ALL-DISTRICT players for 2024 include, from left: top row, Gunnar Holder, Jessin Hardin and Hunter Weber; middle row, Jakob Johns, Brandon Rodriguez and Gunner Carthel; and bottom row, Kevin Trillo and Braedyn Richardson. [Photos by Chris Simon/ www.simon-sports-photos.smugmug.com]](https://kingfisherpress.etypegoogle10.com/sites/kingfisherpress.etypegoogle10.com/files/styles/thumbnail_150/public/8_eagles_snag_all-district_honors1.jpg?itok=GbENVPYb "HENNESSEY ALL-DISTRICT players for 2024 include, from left: top row, Gunnar Holder, Jessin Hardin and Hunter Weber; middle row, Jakob Johns, Brandon Rodriguez and Gunner Carthel; and bottom row, Kevin Trillo and Braedyn Richardson. [Photos by Chris Simon/ www.simon-sports-photos.smugmug.com]")
