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According to the affidavits and petitions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is innocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All information is a matter of public record and may be obtained by anyone during regular hours at the Alfalfa County Courthouse. The Newsgram will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper. Civil Filings Gregg E. Glass vs. BCE-Mach, LLC; Tiptop Oil & Gas US,...
Real Estate Transfers Book 904, page 159: Terry M. Hague and Joyce S. Hague convey unto Terry M. Hague and Joyce S. Hague, co-trustees of the Terry and Joyce Hague Living Trust. The southeast quarter of Section 9, Township 26N, Range 11, WIM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, etc. Quit claim deed. Book 904, page 213: Aaron Smith and Kandi Smith convey unto Aaron Christopher Smith and Kandi Marie Smith, as Trustees of the Aaron and Kandi Smith Trust. West half of Section 24, Township 29N, Range 9, WIM. Warranty deed. Book 904, page 217: Janet Roper, Chr...
Monday, December 30, 2024 During this day: two traffic stops. 3:50 a.m. – Caller requested a deputy to her residence in the 200 block of 6th Street. She thinks she heard a space heater in house and believes someone might be in her garage, attic or basement. Deputy en route. Deputy advised all was okay. 8:45 a.m. – Medic needed at James Crabtree Correctional Center for a male who pulled staples out of his neck. Medic took the patient to Bass Hospital in Enid. 2:12 p.m. – Report of a copper theft east of County Road 630 and Kiowa. 2:47 p.m. – Med...
Memorial services for Dennis Schwerdtfeger will be 2 p.m. Saturday, January 18, 2025, at the Alva Friends Church. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Memorial contributions may be made through the funeral home to the Alva Friends Church or the American Heart Association. Remembrances may be shared with the family at www.marshallfuneralhomes.com....
Funeral service for Elsie Marie Tarrant, age 96, of Jet, Oklahoma, will be 2 p.m., Friday, January 10, 2025, at the Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home Chapel with the Pastor Kelly Cronkhite officiating. Burial will follow in the Pleasant View Cemetery in Jet. Services are under the direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home and Crematory. Elsie was born August 11, 1928, to Haskell R. Blackledge and Mildred Hockett Blackledge on the family farm near Jet. She passed on January 2, 2025, in Enid, Oklahoma. She...
Forrest Edward Golbek was born to Gracie T. (Brewer) and Ed Golbek Jr. on December 11, 1952, in Alva, Oklahoma. He passed away on January 3, 2025, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at the age of 72 years, 11 months and 24 days. He was preceded in death by his mother, Gracie, and sister, Debbie; nephew, Joshua; niece, Leslie. Forrest is survived by his father, Ed Golbek Jr; children, Sarah and husband Drew Letts, Sherri and husband Tony Jones, Sandy and husband Chris Doherty, Stephany and husband Eric...
Funeral services for Janice Sue Sterling will be 2 p.m., Thursday, January 9, 2025, at Hardtner United Methodist Church with Pastor Mark Fillmore, officiating. Burial will follow at Hardtner Cemetery in Hardtner, Kansas. Visitation with the family will be 5-7 p.m., Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at the Funeral Home. Service under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home. Janice Sue Sterling, daughter of the late Ralph and Bernice (Benson) Wiley, was born November 19, 1930, in El Dorado, Kansas, and...
Funeral services for Kathryn Denise Churchill will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, January 11, 2025, at Hopeton Church in Hopeton, Oklahoma. Burial to follow at Alva Municipal Cemetery in Alva, Oklahoma. Visitation with the family will be from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Friday, January 10, 2025, at the funeral home. Arrangements are under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Kathryn Denise Churchill was born to Dale Eugene and Alma "Darlene" (Bowman) Johnston on January 2, 1955, in Woodward,...
As 2024 drew to a close, I noticed a lot of entertainers quoting reports on the most-played songs of 2024. While I enjoy music, as a newspaper editor my focus is on facts. I was intrigued by this report from USAFacts (USAFacts.com) on their most-read articles of 2024. A lot of readers sought information about safety and homelessness. Here’s a list of the top ten. 10. How many voters have a party affiliation? This election year, readers wanted to understand political affiliations. As of late S...
Keith and Rita Hoffman, Freedom, Oklahoma, celebrated their 50-year marriage with family and close friends on November 30, 2024. Their children, Kenny, Danny and Felecia, along with their grandchildren, Brooke, Addison and Jack Minyard and Bailee and Landry Hoffman hosted a come-n-go reception in their honor. Keith and Rita Jackson were married on December 28, 1974 in Rita's hometown church in Shidler, Oklahoma. Both attended Northwestern Oklahoma State University and resided in Alva, Driftwood...
It's no surprise that South Barber junior Lily Schurter is invited to compete in the Coast2Coast International Track and Field Meet in Australia July 5-16. She made it to the Kansas state track meet her freshman and sophomore years. At the state level she's currently ranked 3rd in discus and 10th in shot put. Her best throws are 120'8" for discus and 38'5.5" for shot put. The daughter of Kiowa couple Zeb and Anna Schurter, Lily gets to experience Australian culture and represent the USA in a tra...
The Cherokee School Board’s regular monthly meeting Monday evening opened with Superintendent Bryce Schanbacher recognizing the board for its service. “January is School Board Appreciation Month, and you each have a certificate of appreciation there in front of you,” he said as the meeting got underway. “We do appreciate you and the decisions you make for our students, school and community, and we wanted to take a few moments to express that appreciation. Thank you all very much.” It was good timing, because the last board meeting was conve...
Upon starting their meeting this week, the Alfalfa County Commissioners – Garret Johnson, Mike Roach and Nate Ross – voted to appoint Roach as chairman and Ross vice chairman for 2025. Once that was taken care of, the three men signed their usual orders of business, approving the maintenance and operation warrants for payment, blanket purchase orders, monthly officer reports, and court clerk records management and preservation reports. They reviewed and signed the monthly appropriations and the allocation of taxes from alcoholic beverages and...
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A developing winter storm threatens to drop snow, sleet and freezing rain on parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas as frigid air that escaped the Arctic plunges temperatures to subfreezing levels in some of the southernmost points of the U.S. National Weather Service meteorologists predicted wintry precipitation across the southern Plains region starting Wednesday night, with snow likely in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Farther south, snow could transition to sleet and freezing rain, which meteorologists warn could result i...
Texas A&M Aggies (12-2, 1-0 SEC) at Oklahoma Sooners (13-1, 0-1 SEC) Norman, Oklahoma; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Sooners -1.5; over/under is 147.5 BOTTOM LINE: No. 17 Oklahoma faces No. 10 Texas A&M after Jalon Moore scored 20 points in Oklahoma's 107-79 loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide. The Sooners have gone 8-0 at home. Oklahoma is 9-1 in games decided by at least 10 points. The Aggies are 1-0 in conference matchups. Texas A&M has a 0-1 record in games decided by less than 4 points. Oklahoma averages 9.1 made 3-pointers pe...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' top elections official launched a campaign for governor Wednesday after building his public profile by pushing back against unfounded election conspiracy theories and breaking with fellow Republicans on voting rights issues. Secretary of State Scott Schwab is the first candidate to confirm plans to seek the GOP nomination in 2026 to replace term-limited Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. He announced his campaign in an online video, giving the August 2026 primary race an early start. Schwab has repeatedly vouched for t...
A nasty dose of winter weather has pummeled much of the U.S. from Kansas to the East Coast, leaving many Americans to dig out of the blizzard — including farmers. And more is on the way, with the polar air expected to continue to grip some places until at least Friday. Farmers always watch the weather, but depending on where they're located and what they produce, winter always presents mental challenges for growers, said Carolyn Olson, an organic farmer in southwestern Minnesota who is also vice president of the Minnesota Farm Bureau F...
LAKE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Wildlife officials and several climbers rescued a bull elk by lowering it down a cliff after the animal became entangled in a rope at a popular ice climbing area in southwestern Colorado. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said a group of ice climbers in Lake City encountered the distressed elk Friday morning, and a CPW biologist darted the ungulate with a tranquilizer and covered part of its head with a ski mask to protect its eyes during the rescue. The team cut the rope away from the elk's antlers but needed a w...
HARBIN, China (AP) — Even as the mercury dropped well below freezing, enthusiasm soared among about a dozen hardy swimmers during a daily ritual in northeast China's "ice city" of Harbin. The swimmers trained daily throughout the year for this. They first carved out a pool in the Songhua River, breaking the 10-centimeter (4-inch) thick layer of ice that had formed again overnight and scooping out the pieces. Then they stripped down and, one by one, plunged into the bone-chilling waters of a pool about 10 meters (30 feet) long. Some said t...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli soldiers recovered the body of a 53-year-old hostage in an underground tunnel in southern Gaza, the military said Wednesday, and the army was determining if another set of remains belongs to the man's son. The discovery of Yosef AlZayadni's body comes as Israel and Hamas are considering a ceasefire deal that would free the remaining hostages in Gaza and could halt the fighting. Israel has declared about a third of the 100 hostages dead, but believes as many as half could be. Yosef and his son Hamzah AlZayadni were t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to new research published Wednesday. "Huge rivers like the Amazon can appear mighty, but at the same time freshwater environments are very fragile," said study co-author Patricia Charvet, a biologist at Brazil's Federal University of Ceará. Freshwater habitats – including rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, bogs and wetlands – cover less than 1% of the planet's surface, but support 10% of its animal specie...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Multiple massive wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force Wednesday, destroying more than 1,000 structures and killing at least two people as desperate residents escaped through flames, ferocious winds and towering clouds of smoke. Three major blazes were burning in the metropolitan area, from the Pacific Coast inland to Pasadena, home of the famed Rose Parade. With thousands of firefighters already attacking the flames, the Los Angeles Fire Department put out a plea for off-duty firefighters to help....
