Ranger Rodeo, June Jam receive tourism tax funding

The Alva Tourism Tax Committee met Wednesday, Sept. 20. Chairman Melinda Barton opened the meeting with members Scott Kline, Terri Parsons and Angelica Brady present. Sadie Bier was absent. The last meeting was held in July because no event... Full story

Alva High School celebrates homecoming this week

Alva High School will celebrate their fall homecoming this week beginning on Monday. The theme for the week is Welcome to the Jungle. Part of the celebration is the 100th year of the Goldbug as the school’s mascot. T-shirts will be on sale... Full story

Alva City Council approves $5 million bond issue for water projects

The Alva City Council meeting Monday, Sept. 18, lasted around two and one-half hours. The longest discussion concerned Resolution 2023-019 for the issuance and sale of promissory note by the Alva...

Alva City Council approves $5 million bond issue for water projects

The Alva City Council meeting Monday, Sept. 18, lasted around two and one-half hours. The longest discussion concerned Resolution 2023-019 for the issuance and sale of promissory note by the Alva Utility Authority to the Oklahoma Water Resources... Full story

Change to hotel tax ordinance tabled again

For a second time, the Alva City Council tabled discussion and action to modify the tourism tax ordinance. The modification is needed to allow the Oklahoma Tax Commission (OTC) to collect the five percent excise tax instead of that duty falling on... Full story

Hamil appointed to WCEDC

The Woods County Economic Development Committee (WCEDC) met Wednesday, Sept. 20, for their quarterly meeting. September marks the beginning of the WCEDC fiscal year. WCEDC Director Jeremy Zeller reported the year ended with a little over $1,000...

Special meetings Tuesday on synthetic turf bids, hotel tax ordinance

Three special city meetings are scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 26. At 12:30 p.m. the Alva Parks and Recreation Board will meet to consider bids received for the installation of synthetic turf on...

Northwestern awards prizes, scholarships during Family Day activities

The Jeff Judkins Family from Texarkana, Texas, traveled 480 miles to attend the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Family Day events this past weekend and received the award for traveling the...

Enlarging your vocabulary

I want to begin today’s article with a confession: Most of the articles I write are something I have come up with on my own or are about something I have observed, but today’s story is merely a...

Families falling apart

Generation Z – young adults that older generations have a difficult time understanding. And a generation that, in turn, holds a lot of contempt for the lifestyles of generations before them....

More schools are adopting 4-day weeks. For parents, the challenge is day 5

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — It's a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and...

Texas Walmart shooter agrees to pay more than $5M to families over 2019 racist attack

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A white Texas gunman who killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019 after ranting about Hispanics taking over the government and economy has agreed to pay more than $5 million to victims of the racist attack, according to an order...

Judge blocks government plan to scale back Gulf oil lease sale to protect whale species

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to expand next week's scheduled sale of of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases by millions of acres, rejecting a scaled-back plan announced last month by the Biden...

Kansas school district to make changes after LGBTQ dispute

AMERICUS, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas school district plans to offer anti-discrimination training to staff and teachers in response to complaints about how an eighth-grade student was treated after she said she was a lesbian. North Lyon County officials...

Goldbugs lose to Millwood 36-13

Sometimes the best that can be said about a football game between Alva and Millwood is that the Goldbugs had no incapacitating injuries. This time, the Goldbugs not only emerged uninjured, but they... Full story

Rangers' Haren wins all-around

ALVA – Truth be told, Jacob Haren wasn’t satisfied with his performance this past weekend at the Colby (Kansas) Community College rodeo. Sure, he won the all-around title and led the way for the Northwestern Oklahoma State University rodeo team...

He spoke no English, had no lawyer. An Afghan man's case offers a glimpse into US immigration court

The Afghan man speaks only Farsi, but he wasn't worried about representing himself in U.S. immigration court. He believed the details of his asylum claim spoke for themselves. Mohammad was a university professor, teaching human rights courses in...

Why the US job market has defied rising interest rates and expectations of high unemployment

WASHINGTON (AP) — Last year's spike in inflation, to the highest level in four decades, was painful enough for American households. Yet the cure — much higher interest rates, to cool spending and hiring — was expected to bring even more pain....

What is behind renewed tensions between Serbia and Kosovo?

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew over the weekend when some 30 heavily armed Serbs barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery in northern Kosovo, setting off a daylong gunbattle with police that left one...

CHARLES LEROY NUSSER

A visitation with family of Charles Nusser will be 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at Marshall Funeral Home. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva and a...

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