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Before former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg threw his hat into the 2020 presidential race, he defended the New York Police Department’s use of “stop, question and frisk” policing. At a United States Naval Academy’s 2019 Leadership Conference, Bloomberg said, “We focused on keeping kids from going through the correctional system ... kids who walked around looking like they might have a gun, remove the gun from their pockets and stop it.” He claimed that as a result of his policy, New York’s murder rate fell from 650 a year to 300 the year he left office.
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Read moreClarence Lavern “Pete” Kirby was born Feb. 24, 1928, in Big Four and passed away Feb. 19, 2020, in Oklahoma City.
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While the $16.5 million price tag is intimidating at first glance, Dover Supt. Max Thomas said most of the cost of a proposed new elementary school will be borne by industry, rather than individual property owners.
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RECORD-BREAKING TURNOUT made this year’s Guns & Hoses blood drive competition between the Kingfisher police and fire departments the most successful local drive as well as the most blood drawn at any police-fire competition drive in northwest Oklahoma. A total of 103 units of blood and blood products were drawn in the day-long event last Tuesday, including a pint from Police Chief Dennis Baker, drawn by Lauren Farrand of the Oklahoma Blood Institute. “The lives of 309 patients have been impacted because a community came together and accomplished something monumental,” Carly Farmer of OBI said. “I want to give both Dennis and (KFD Chief) Tony Stewart recognition for their efforts.” As for the competition part, KPD keeps the traveling trophy for the second year, but Baker said, “it’s Oklahomans who are the true winners.” [Photos Provided]
Read moreKokojan was a 1945 Hennessey High School graduate who died June 4, 2018.
Read moreNow it looks like mid- March before Kingfisher’s latest Oklahoma Department of Transportation construction project will begin, due to contractor scheduling.
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The marquee lights were turned on Wednesday night at Hennessey’s two-story Eagle Event Center (more commonly called “The Dome”) but it will be about 60 days before it’s move-in ready. The school’s April 25 prom is scheduled to be the first event and there’s plenty of room in the two-story, 33,000 square-foot dome-shaped structure. Hennessey United board members took a tour of the $8.4 million facility (top right). The gym floors are ready to be walked on this week (bottom right) but not ready to be tested by players yet. That’s a 32-foot-wide screen under that black drape that will show live court action. It’s at the south end, and there will be a 10-foot-wide screen at the north end and six smaller screens in the lobby and concessions area. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photos by Barb Walter]
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