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Burlington's School Board met for a special meeting Feb. 24 that lasted about 15 minutes. The purpose of the meeting was to approve an addendum for Gayle McNett who is the school counselor. She recently earned her master's degree in counseling. Going up to this level equates to a little over $1300 addendum, Superintendent Rousey said. Jr/Sr High Principal Gerrett Spears updated the board on future tournament options. He said they plan to play next basketball season in the Hillsdale Christian Tournament. This is a private school in Hillsdale....
Take one look at the birthday girl VernaLee Lawson's beautiful, almost wrinkle-free skin, and you'd never guess she turned 97 this month on Jan. 11. Kiowa's Senior Citizen Center was full of well-wishing family and friends, nearly 40 people, Saturday morning when VernaLee's three children hosted a birthday party for her. She and her husband, Vane, had three children: Randy, Tony and Sheri. "You never know how much time we have left with her," Sheri Lawson Herren said of the siblings' decision...
Breya Beck is currently serving as the 2022-2023 Waynoka FFA chapter reporter. She is the daughter of Britni Beck and has four siblings: Brylee, Briston, Jay and Brexton. She has been in FFA for three years and is a sophomore in high school. Her SAE project is showing pigs. Outside of FFA she enjoys basketball, softball and track. Her favorite thing about FFA is all of the people she has met and the experiences she has had along the way. Her friends and family got her into the FFA showing pigs and judging livestock. After high school, Breya...
A new ruling declaring waste water lines for oil and gas as exempt from ad valorem taxes has resulted in the loss of tax money to counties and especially to schools. On Thursday, Jan. 26, the Woods County Tax Roll Corrections Board met at the courthouse in Alva to handle a list of tax corrections. Many of them were for the change in status of waste water (often called saltwater) lines. The corrections related to those lines, approved for four years of tax rolls, resulted in over a half million...
Donita was the first child of late parents Don and Eva Ragan of Kiowa, Kansas, and was preceded in death by her brother, Barry Ragan of St. John, Kansas. She is survived by brothers Jim Ragan of Salina, Kansas; Craig Ragan of Hardtner, Kansas; Phil Ragan of Winfield, Kansas; and sons Geoffrey Fletcher of Haysville, Kansas, and Gary Fletcher Jr. of Kiowa, Kansas. As a student at Kiowa High School, she performed as a percussionist in the band and on the violin for the quality orchestra – both under the direction of Gary Fletcher, Sr., whom she n...
What activities do you remember enjoying when you were young? I don't mean the big things like a trip to Disney World. I'm thinking about the everyday fun stuff. Before I started school (which was age six back then), we lived on a farm. I loved going for family walks in the woods. It gave our parents time to relax and talk while we kids ran ahead to explore interesting plants and flowers or a funny-shaped rock. There were plenty of rocks in Missouri. The walks usually ended at a shallow creek wi...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A deadly storm system lashed a large swath of the southern U.S. with bands of sleet and snow for a third day on Wednesday, grounding an additional 2,300 flights, leaving hundreds of thousands without power, forcing school closures and making already treacherous driving conditions worse. Watches and warnings about wintry conditions were issued for an area stretching West Texas' border with Mexico through Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, and into western Tennessee and northern Mississippi. Several rounds of mixed p...
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Authorities in Western Australia on Wednesday recovered a tiny but dangerous radioactive capsule that fell off a truck while being transported along a 1,400-kilometer (870-mile) Outback highway last month in what an official said was like finding the needle in the haystack. Officials said the capsule the size of a pea was found south of the mining town of Newman on the Great Northern Highway. It was detected by a search vehicle travelling at 70 kilometers (43 miles) per hour when specialist equipment picked up r...
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The suspect in a violent kidnapping in Oregon — a man who spent little time behind bars for a similar crime in Nevada — killed two men before being cornered by officers and fatally shooting himself, police said Wednesday. Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, died at a hospital Tuesday night, hours after he shot himself while hiding in a crawlspace underneath a house in Grants Pass. In a news conference the next day, law enforcement officers revealed details on the intensive manhunt for Foster, including finding the bodies of the t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met face-to-face Wednesday for more than an hour of highly anticipated budget talks — "a good first meeting," the new Republican leader said — but expectations were low for quick progress as GOP lawmakers push for steep cuts in a deal to prevent a national debt limit crisis. Biden has resisted direct spending negotiations linked to vital action raising the nation's legal debt ceiling, warning against potentially throwing the economy into chaos. McCarthy had all but invit...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tyre Nichols' family and friends remembered him with songs of faith and heartfelt tributes Wednesday, blending a celebration of his life with outraged calls for police reform after the brutal beating he endured at the hands of Memphis police. Nichols' mother, RowVaughn Wells, fought back tears as she spoke lovingly of her son. "The only thing that's keeping me going is that I truly believe that my son was sent here on assignment from God. And I guess now his assignment is done. He's gone home," she said, urging Congress t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve extended its fight against high inflation Wednesday by raising its key interest rate a quarter-point, its eighth hike since March. And the Fed signaled that even though inflation is easing, it remains high enough to require further rate hikes. At the same time, Chair Jerome Powell said at a news conference that the Fed recognizes that the pace of inflation has cooled — a signal that it could be nearing the end of its rate increases. The stock and bond markets rallied during his news conference, sug...
