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Cashion’s Madelyn McCabe, left, and Kingfisher’s Ally Stephenson, right, competed against each other last weekend in the hepatathlon during the Big 12 Track & Field Championships in Norman. McCabe finished 12th for Kansas State with 4,992 points, led by a third-place finish in the high jump. Stephenson, competing for the University of Oklahoma, was 14th with 4,779 points. She took fourth in the long jump, her best showing of the seven events. Both athletes won multiple state championships for their respective high schools. [Photo provided]
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Plainview HCE Hosts Kingfisher High School Seniors for Annual Tea
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Three public servants were recently honored by the local post of the American Legion.
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Kingfisher will see two more veteran teachers head north next year, one of them to keep intact one of the most successful coaching trios in Oklahoma.
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May California’s fads stay there
Read moreI’ve had some crappy jobs in my life. I’ve picked citrus with a bracero crew from Mexico and I’ve waded through pig poop for less than minimum wage but by far the worst job I’ve ever had was shearing sheep. I did it because I could shear on weekends and evenings when I wasn’t working in the oilfields. You could say, sheep helped pay for my sheepskin. (Are they even called that anymore? ) I always arrived on time and wired my motor to the cattle racks on my grandpa’s old Ford Econoline which embarrassed me to even be seen inside the cab which, by the way, I shared with the motor. I’m not exaggerating... THE MOTOR WAS INSIDE THE CAB! Don’t ask me why I would one day pay grandpa $600 for the only truck I’ve ever owned that wasn’t a GM product. But I gotta say, as long as you kept the windows open to avoid asphyxiation, old Herbie was the best pickup I’ve ever owned.
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