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Tuesday, January 2, 2018 7:37 a.m. Cattle out 1 mile north of Cherokee. 7:54 a.m. Caller advised his wife had hit a deer and it was still alive. 9:49 a.m. Cattle out on County Road 620 and Grant Road. 12:06 p.m. Medic needed for a female who had fallen and hurt her leg. Medic en route. Medic with patient and en route to St. Mary's Hospital in Enid. 4:01 p.m. Report of an unattended death in Carmen. 5:24 p.m. Ambulance requested for a male with possible dislocated shoulder and multiple fractures in his arm and hand. Medic en route. Medic with pa...
Real Estate Transfers Book 821 page 243: Jose R. and Ruby A. Hernandez, party of the first part, unto Jose Hernandez III, party of the second part. Lots 1 and 2, block 1 Dunavant's Lakeview Addition in section 15, township 26 north, range 9, WIM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Warranty deed. Book 821 page 354: JF2 Land LLC, grantor, unto Robert E. Kershaw Royalty Company, Inc, an Oklahoma corporation, section 2, township 25 north, range 12 west, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Quit claim deed. Book 821 page 359: William D. Delano and Linda K. Delano,...
January 1, 2018 Hardtner Fire Department responded to a structure fire on north Main Hardtner. Deputy Suchy also responded. Kiowa ambulance transported patient from Kiowa Hospital to Wichita. Deputy Suchy and Deputy Paasch investigated a suspicious character on US-281 south of Medicine Lodge. January 2, 2018 Kiowa ambulance transported patient from Kiowa Hospital to Via Christi in Wichita. Deputy Woods investigated a burglary on Aetna Road. Kiowa ambulance responded to north Sixth Street. No transport. Kiowa ambulance transported patient from...
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 Alva Review-Courier will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper. Felony Filings Christina Rene Morris, Cherokee, 34, has been...
Divorce Filings Jacob Kenellson Hiebert vs. Justina Feher Hiebert, Kingfisher, has filed for divorce ($262.14)....
The Barber County Cattlemen’s Association will once again be offering scholarships to local high school seniors and college age youth. Scholarships will be at least $500 each and are available to any Barber County resident, individual attending high school in Barber County or individual with parent(s) operating an agricultural endeavor within Barber County. Selection preference will be given to applicants with high levels of academic achievement and community service, agricultural majors and involvement with Barber County Cattlemen’s Ass...
Alfalfa County felony charges have been filed against two women for bringing contraband into James Crabtree Correctional Center (JCCC) at Helena in October. The charges were filed on January 3. Kimberly Ann Menasco, 49, of Moore was charged with a felony of bringing contraband drugs into a penal institution. She was also charged with possession of tobacco in a penal institution, a misdemeanor. According to court records, on Oct. 8 Sgt. Jackie Ekman did a pat search of Menasco during visitation at JCCC. During the search, she felt something in...
The Freedom School Board had a quick 11-minute meeting before adjourning into executive session to discuss the employment of Michelle Shelite, a part-time bus driver, and approve the superintendent's contract. After the executive session, the remaining items on the agenda had possible actions of approving contracts for the three individuals. Shelite was rehired, but no action was taken on a part-time bus driver. Faculty member Bryant Weber described the planned senior trip, which will include seven students and two sponsors, to Washington,...
The elementary school principal, high school/middle school principal and assistant principal were re-employed for the 2018-2019 school year by the Cherokee Board of Education at the Jan. 8 meeting. Board members present for the meeting were Amber Wilhite, T.J. Allison and Kory Littlefield. Tony Hellar was absent. The board approved the consent agenda including minutes of the Dec. 4, 2017, regular board meeting, general fund encumbrances, general fund warrants, building fund encumbrances, building fund warrants, treasurer's report, activity...
When law enforcement officers went to the Cherokee police chief’s home to serve an arrest warrant, they apparently encountered some resistance from a woman living there. According to court records, on Tuesday, Jan. 2, about 11:45 a.m. officers went to the home of Cherokee Police Chief Mike Andrews to serve a Garfield County warrant on Phillip Dean Patocka II, the son of Andrews. The police chief had told Alfalfa County Sheriff Rick Wallace that Patocka was living at his home. Undersheriff Gary Mast, Chief Andrews and Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotic...
A Cherokee High School graduate who is also a current NWOSU student, Nicole Unruh, is opening a ladies clothing store in Alva across the street east of NWOSU in a location formerly used as a massage parlor. The official address is 1016 College, Suite A. Immediately after graduating from Cherokee High School in 2015, Unruh signed on to play college basketball for Hesston College in Kansas. She blew out her ankle during the second game of the season. She finished the year there and then moved to A...
All five Waynoka School Board members were present on Monday night's regularly scheduled meeting. The consent agenda was quickly approved before Superintendent Scott Cline gave his report. He said in looking at the finances for this month, expenditures are about the same, and soon they will probably start looking at buying a new bus. The school's revenue is up despite gross production being down (it's under collected for this year at $41,000), but the ad valorem has made that up. Child and nutrition expenditures and revenues are both up and...
Don Meredith, Dallas Cowboy quarterback, once said, “Coach Tom Landry is such a perfectionist that if he was married to Raquel Welch, he would expect her to cook.” Harry Neale, professional hockey coach: “Last year we couldn't win at home and we were losing on the road. My failure as a coach was that I couldn't think of anyplace else to play.” Reggie Jackson commenting on Tom Seaver: “Blind people come to the ballpark just to listen to him pitch.” Doug Sanders, professional golfer: “I'm working...
The Medicine Lodge Indians played the Conway Springs Cardinals on Jan. 5, winning 49 to 46. Indians Dakota Bayliff five points, Drew Honas 22 points, Garrett Burden seven points, Blake Winter 11 points, Tanner Wedel three points and Ben McKinney one point. Cardinals Jones three points, Winter six points, Hedrick 21 points, Hilger five points, J. Koester nine points and Osner...
South Barber School Board President Steven Allen called the Jan. 8 regular monthly meeting to order Monday night. New board member Bryan Quick took his place at the table to replace Dooli Rugg, who moved out of the district in 2017. All other members were present including: Deb Helfrich, Mariah Doherty, Mike Miller, Mark Pollock and Melissa Simpson. Following an executive session at the end of the meeting, the board approved two separate resolutions: 2018-10 and 2018-11. Each resolution calls for 167 days of expulsion for a student (who was...
The Alfalfa County commissioners met Monday, Jan. 8, with all commissioners present as well as Nancy Lambert and Laneta Unruh. The minutes from the previous meeting with the M&O, blanket purchase orders, and road crossing permits were approved by the commissioners. Monthly officer reports were approved. Receiving and requisitioning officers for District 2 were changed. Carl Wilson and Lena Roach were removed. Monte Stebens and Carl Wilson were appointed to the positions. The commissioners approved a transfer document to relocate two Dell...
The Alva school board met Monday night for about 45 minutes in a regular session and an hour and one-half in executive session. The agenda item for the executive session read, "Discussing employee staffing for FY 19 per 25 O.S 307(B)(1)." No action was taken after the executive session other than completing the rest of the meeting by signing documents. Superintendent Steve Parkhurst told the board he has asked two architects to present ideas for a possible fine arts building at the high school...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Harding softball team was picked second in the Great American Conference Coaches Preseason poll, released by the conference office Tuesday. The Lady Bisons are coming off the best season in program history. Harding went 58-9 overall, won the GAC regular season, GAC Tournament championships, won the NCAA Central Region 1 tournament to reach the NCAA Central Super Regional and fell to the eventual national champion Minnesota State Mankato. Harding returns six letterwinners from last year, including All-American Peyton M...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – With less than a month before first pitch of the 2018 NCAA Division II Softball season, the Great American Conference released its Preseason Coaches Poll on Tuesday afternoon and claiming the top spot for the second-straight year are the Southern Arkansas Lady Muleriders, led by fourth-year head coach Jason Anderson. SAU received 112 total points and six first-place votes, while Harding (104), the league's regular season and tournament champion last spring, and Arkansas Tech (102) each garnered three first-place votes. H...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is stepping down as chairman of Breitbart News Network after a public break with President Donald Trump. Breitbart announced Tuesday that Bannon would step down as executive chairman of the conservative news site, less than a week after Bannon's explosive criticisms of Trump and his family were published in a new book. A report on the Breitbart website quotes Bannon saying, "I'm proud of what the Breitbart team has accomplished in so short a period of time in building out a w...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Searching for a bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown, President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that an immigration agreement could be reached in two phases — first by addressing young immigrants and border security with what he called a "bill of love," then by making comprehensive changes that have long eluded Congress. Trump presided over a lengthy meeting with Republican and Democratic lawmakers seeking a solution for hundreds of thousands of young people who were brought to the U.S. as children and living her...
MONTECITO, Calif. (AP) — At least eight people were killed and homes were torn from their foundations Tuesday as downpours sent mud and boulders roaring down hills stripped of vegetation by a gigantic wildfire that raged in Southern California last month. Rescue crews used helicopters to pluck people from rooftops because debris blocked roads, and firefighters pulled a mud-caked 14-year-old girl from a collapsed Montecito home where she had been trapped for hours. "I thought I was dead for a minute there," the girl could be heard saying on v...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is getting his first medical checkup since taking office, a head-to-toe exam on Friday as questions swirl about the health and fitness of the oldest person ever elected to the nation's highest office. In advance, the 71-year-old president has pushed back vigorously against suggestions he's mentally unfit, declaring himself "a very stable genius." Trump raised concern last month when he slurred some words on national TV. When asked about it, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said q...
