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A story from KOCO TV in Oklahoma City Monday was headlined “Data shows significant spread of Covid-19 in rural Oklahoma counties.” Using an analysis by Oklahoma State University Center for Rural Health, the article states “hot spots can be seen in counties like Roger Mills, Adair, Love and Alfalfa, with developing hot spots in south-central Oklahoma.” The analysis compares the per capita number of cases around the state. The Center for Rural Health says there have been 90 deaths per 100,000...
On Sunday, Jan. 17, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude – Janell Reutlinger Announcement: We are on Facebook live at 11 a.m. Our Facebook page is Freedom United Methodist Church. Invocation by Pastor Todd Finley The Lord’s Prayer Call to Worship – Psalm 121, led by Shirley Wagner Opening Hymn – “I Love to Tell the Story,” led by Debbie Brown Affirmation of Faith The Lord’s Prayer Gloria Patri Hymn of Justifying Grace – “’Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus” Offertory Prayer by Pastor Todd Doxology Special Musi...
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. Civil Filings R.L. Wilson and Vickie Sue Wilson vs. Wachovia...
Divorce Filings Melissa Colvin vs. Christopher Colvin: divorce ($262.14). Stephen Thomas Carson and Stephanie Lynn Carson: divorce ($262.14)....
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 During this day were five traffic stops. 7:50 a.m. – Caller advised of a horse and donkey running down the middle of U.S. Highway 64. 9:20 a.m. – Two people came into the sheriff’s office and advised of a female at the Jiffy Trip “higher than a kite” asking for people with medical marijuana cards. 11:01 a.m. – Alarm company advised of an alarm going off. Key holder advised everything was okay. 1:50 p.m. – Fire alarm went off in the 1000 block of Massachusetts. All was okay. 8:20 p.m. – Medic needed for a female that h...
January 11, 2021 Barber County Sheriff’s office (BASO) returned lost property to an individual on Hackberry Road. Kiowa Police Department (KWPD) and BASO responded to a non-injury accident at the Corner Stop. BASO performed multiple VIN inspections. Medicine Lodge Police Department (MLPD) responded to an EMS call on Jefferson Avenue. BASO transported a hitchhiker. BASO responded to a report of cattle out on US-160. MLPD responded to an EMS call on N. Adams Street. January 12, 2021 BASO investigated a report of criminal damage to property at t...
Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday caused the Alfalfa County commissioners to meet on Tuesday instead of their usual Monday. Marvin Woodall, Jay Hague and Mike Roach began by addressing the routine business items – last meeting's minutes, maintenance and operation warrants for payment, and blanket purchase orders. The monthly officer reports and court clerk records management and preservation monthly reports were also approved. There were no road-crossing permits for the week. Following those approvals, the three men accepted a private...
Candidates for municipal office in seven Alfalfa County municipalities may file Declarations of Candidacy beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, Feb. 1. Kelly Stein, Secretary of the County Election Board, said the filing period ends at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3. Declarations of Candidacy will be accepted at the county election board office, located at 602 W. 5th St., Ste 3, Cherokee, for the indicated offices for each of the following municipalities: Town of Byron Board of Trustees, 4-year term Treasurer, 4-year term Town of Burlington Board of Trustees,...
Candidates for municipal office in Woods County municipalities may file Declarations of Candidacy beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, Feb. 1. Sandra Koehn, secretary of the county election board, said the filing period ends at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3. Declarations of Candidacy will be accepted at the county election board office for the indicated offices for each of the following municipalities: City of Alva – 4-year terms City Treasurer Ward 1, Seat 1 Ward 2, Seat 1 Ward 3, Seat 1 Ward 4, Seat 1 City of Waynoka – 4-year terms Ward 1, Seat 2 Ward 2,...
A healthy, talented 18 year-old, Porsha Binning is an example of how quickly your life can be threatened and forever changed. About a month ago she noticed tingling in her hands and feet – enough to see a chiropractor to determine if she had a pinched nerve. She did not. Then the nightmare began suddenly. That night everything went wrong. Besides numbness in her feet and hands, she threw up and felt increasingly weak and horrible. By the next day she couldn't walk. Taken to the ER at the Kiowa District Hospital, “They thought I was having a str...
Basketball is the primary activity at Waynoka High School this time of year, Principal Dustin Smith told the Waynoka school board at its Monday, Jan. 11, meeting, according to tentative meeting minutes provided by the board's minute clerk, Lori Adair. Basketball homecoming was last Friday. The Buffalo Tournament begins tomorrow, Jan. 21, and runs through Jan. 23. “We are in a stretch where there are games most every night until the playoffs in mid-February,” Smith said. “We are moving forward with limiting fans, like everyone else in the state...
Graveside services for Enola Gay Like will be 2 p.m. Friday, January 22, 2021, at the Highland Cemetery near Pink, Oklahoma, with Bill David Walker officiating. Interment is under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Waynoka, LLC. Enola Gay Like, daughter of Dixie Marie (Hauch) Harris and the late Gilbert V. Harris, was born May 18, 1953, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and passed away January 16, 2021, in Amarillo, Texas, at the age of 67 years, 7 months and 28 days. After high school graduation,...
Gladys Fae Whitehead Weigand passed away peacefully on January 12, 2021. Graveside services were held on January 19, 2021 at 2 p.m. at Parker Cemetery in Arkansas City, Kansas, with Shelly Funeral Home officiating. Online condolences may be made at www.shelleyfamilyfh.com. Born January 17, 1932, to Arthur and Elsie (Glenn) Whitehead outside of Capron, Oklahoma, Gladys was the third of five sisters. The sisters were close in age and spirit and grew up on a farm in Alfalfa County. The girls...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The attack on the U.S. Capitol by an angry mob of President Donald Trump's supporters shocked many Americans who thought such a violent assault by their fellow countrymen wasn't possible. But for Oklahoma City bombing survivor Dennis Purifoy, the Capitol assault was a clear parallel to what happened at the federal building in his hometown more than 25 years ago. The anger against the government, a radicalized perpetrator fueled by right-wing extremism, a desire to spark a revolution — all commonalities with Timothy McV...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma surpassed 3,000 deaths due to COVID-19 Tuesday as the national death toll topped 400,000, and the rollout of coronavirus vaccines continued at a steady pace. The health department reported an increase of 43 deaths in the state to reach a total of 3,037 people who have died due to the illness caused by the virus. Oklahoma also reported 1,558 confirmed new cases, taking the state's total to 358,374. Also Tuesday, the Oklahoma City Council voted to extend to March 5 a mask mandate in the state's most populous city. It...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma schools are advising people to throw away milk products received from districts last week after a dairy company recalled its chocolate milk because some of it may have been contaminated. Hiland Dairy is recalling 4,800 cases of its one-half pint 1% low fat chocolate milk made at the Norman, Oklahoma, plant because some of that milk may contain food-grade sanitizers, which can make people sick if consumed. SSM Heath St. Anthony Hospital reported examining 50 children who were sick after drinking the milk and 28 w...
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — A federal judge in Oklahoma has ordered the new owners of an Oklahoma zoo featured in Netflix's "Tiger King" documentary to turn over all the lion and tiger cubs in their possession, along with the animals' mothers, to the federal government. U.S. District Judge John F. Heil III issued the order last week in the case against Jeffrey and Lauren Lowe and the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park based on claimed violations of the Endangered Species Act and the Animal Welfare Act. "The Lowes have showed a shocking d...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Investigators believe a man whose body was found in Arcadia, Kansas, last week was killed in Kansas City, Missouri. The man's body was found Jan. 13 when Crawford County deputies went to property in Arcadia after receiving a tip. The man who lived there, Nicholas Adam Carrillo, 37, fled when the body was found in the backyard. The KBI said Tuesday that Carrillo was found Friday in Arcadia. He was booked into the Crawford County Jail on possible charges of criminal desecration of a body, interference with law e...
Just in case it matters, Chad Henne isn't nearly as likely as Patrick Mahomes to chuck the ball deep down the field for the Kansas City Chiefs. The sample size is closer than people might think as well. If Mahomes can't start the AFC championship game against Buffalo because of concussion protocols, Kansas City will be the only team in the final four without a quarterback tending to look downfield for throws. And if Mahomes is cleared to play Sunday against Josh Allen and the Bills, well, it might be a good week to put defensive backs through...
PECOS, Texas. (AP) — Police in western Texas have identified a girl who drowned in a hotel pool in 1966 as a 17-year-old native of Kansas. Jolaine Hemmy, of Salina, Kansas, drowned on July 5, 1966 at the Ropers Motel in Pecos, police said Tuesday. She was staying with a man at the hotel when her body was found. The man, who police did not identify, was in the couple's room when she drowned but left while emergency responders were trying to revive her, Pecos police said. Police reopened the cold case last year and her body was exhumed in A...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An anonymous couple from Kansas has pledged an estate gift of $3.5 million to the Wichita State Foundation. The money will be used to endow a general scholarship fund for students who have financial need, the university said Tuesday. The couple said in a statement that Wichita State was important to their family and they wanted to help others have access to education at the university. Students who show financial need, have a minimum 3.0 grade-point average and hold part-time jobs will be eligible for scholarships of up t...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Four nurses at a rural health department in Kansas are refusing to administer any COVID-19 vaccines, citing the fast development and production of the shots. Coffey County Public Health Administrator Lindsay Payer said the nurses made their own decisions and expressed their concerns one by one. She called the vaccine documents concerning. "I strongly feel that if people want this vaccine, they should receive it. Absolutely," Payer said. "But just like it's their choice to receive it or not, I feel like it should also be m...
Services for Herbert Louis Niles are pending with Lanman Funeral Home, Cherokee, Oklahoma. Viewing will be held on Friday, January 22, 2021, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Lanman Funeral Home, 1305 S. Grand Avenue. Services will be held on Sunday, January 23, 2021 at 1 p.m. at the Alfalfa County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building, 600-698 W 5th Street. Online condolences may be made at www.lanmanfuneralhome.com....
Graveside services for John Frech were at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 16, 2021, at the Carmen City Cemetery with Rev. Timothy Roggow officiating. Interment was under the direction of Wentworth Mortuary LLC of Carmen. The service was live streamed on Marshall Funeral Home Facebook Page. Johnny F. Frech, son of the late John Gottlieb and Anna Marie (Meyhofer) Frech, was born June 21, 1931, on the family farmstead and passed away January 10, 2021, at Enid at the age of 89 years, 6 months and 19 days....
Memorial services for David Fearing with be 2 p.m. Saturday, January 23, 2021, at the Cherokee Strip Museum Annex. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home. We will livestream the service on Marshall Funeral Home Facebook Page. Masks are requested. Karl David Fearing, son of Glenn and Dorothy (Morton) Fearing, was born on December 23, 1949, and passed away suddenly on January 9, 2021, at the age of 71. Dave lived throughout his childhood in Burr Oak, Kansas,...
