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In her 25th year of teaching school, Krista Pollock said, "I still love it." Telling her teaching philosophy, Pollock said, "Kids don't care how much I know until they know how much I care." On Monday mornings she asks every student how their weekend was. "They trust me. It's all about relationships. They know I care about them. I watch their ballgames and other extra-curricular activities – I like to know. I've found that by first having a good relationship with my students – then their lea...
“For economic development, we need to reduce our electrical rates significantly by approximately 20 percent. It could attract manufacturing,” Kiowa, Kansas City Administrator Sam Demel said. That's why the city is interested in obtaining matching grant money to build a one mega-watt solar plant. At a special meeting, Kiowa's City Council voted to have Demel apply for a BASE grant. Earlier, Kansas Gov. Kelly announced the launch of the Building a Stronger Economy (BASE) program administered by the Kansas Department of Commerce. BASE is a new...
The Waynoka Board of Education held its regular monthly meeting Monday, March 7. All members were present – Board President Travis George, Garret Gum, John Hanson, Caleb Zook, and Clint Olson – along with Superintendent Scott Cline, Junior and Senior High Principal Dustin Smith, Elementary Principal Pat Burrow and Minutes Clerk Lori Adair. The Masonic Elementary Student of the Month for February was Josie Gaskill and the Masonic Teacher of the Month for February was Valerie Callison. The high school Masonic Student of the Month was Madison Blo...
The Woods County commissioners held an executive session Tuesday, March 8, that lasted over two hours. The topic was health insurance. The county’s current health insurance provider, OPEH&W, told them they would have to pay a surcharge of $91,000. This sent the commissioners looking for a different provider. Last Tuesday they went over the offerings by EGID (Employees Group Insurance Division) Office of Management and Enterprise Services. The outcome was a plan through HealthChoice that will c...
There’s just something about a library. As an introvert, I sometimes feel uncomfortable in new places or situations. But a library always feels like home. I’m surrounded by old friends (books) and the potential for new ones that will introduce me to new ideas and exotic places. Monday after taking notes during the Alva Public Library board meeting, I visited the freshly organized children’s library downstairs. With the shutdowns mandated by Covid and the cautious reopening of some areas, the A...
Last week was an incredibly busy one in the House. We heard 158 bills, passing most of those over to the State Senate for their consideration. We'll have a few long days of floor week this week and then take a short spring break to spend time with our families before we hit the ground running hard again to meet the deadline for bills to be passed off the House Floor. After that, the House will start hearing Senate bills in committee and then on the floor, and the Senate will begin considering...
As we continue to hear legislation on the Senate floor ahead of our March 24 deadline to pass measures out of our chamber, we’ve approved a myriad of bills that will position our state for continued success. I know many of you dealt with the frustrations of trying to renew your driver license or transition to a REAL ID over the last two years. The Covid-19 pandemic really put a wrench into things, with tag agencies being affected with staff shortages due to quarantine and limited operational h...
Graveside services were held on Tuesday, March 14, 2022, at 2 p.m. at the Byron Amorita Cemetery. Gilbert Dean Maltbie, age 89, passed away on December 30, 2021, in Buckeye, Arizona. He was born in Cherokee, Oklahoma, June 23, 1931, to John William Maltbie and Fanny Lucille Maltbie. He was raised on the family farm with his sister, Wanda Irene, in Amorita, Oklahoma. This was the family homestead farm from the Cherokee Strip Run of 1892. Dean was proud of his heritage and loved being an Okie. Dean moved to Arizona as a young adult where he met...
Graveside service will be held on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, at 2 p.m. at the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Wharton Funeral Chapel. Online condolences may be made at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com. Jimmy was born February 23, 1953, to Maurine (Smith) and Bob Reneau in Alva, Oklahoma. Jim passed away at the age 69 on March 8, 2022, after a battle with cancer. Jim graduated from Liberal High School in 1971 and later graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree from Northwestern O...
Merle Eugene Kersten, beloved son of Amos and Bertha Kersten, was born in Logan, Iowa, on November 18, 1925, and went Home to his Lord on March 5, 2022, at the age of 96. Born on a small farm in southwest Iowa, he left his farm roots to enlist in the ROTC program at Park College in Kansas City. While in the ROTC, he met the love of his life, Billie Burgess Kersten. He, and then Billie, transferred to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he completed his degree in civil...
Sherri was born on September 4, 1958, in Carthage, Missouri, to Raymond Lane Stephens and Sarah Jeannette Hatch Stephens and passed from this life on March 5, 2022, in Enid, Oklahoma. Sherri grew up in Cherokee, Oklahoma, and lived there most of her life, except for a few years in Enid and Medford, Oklahoma. She loved animals, especially dogs, including her rats that she carried around in her purse. Other pastimes include fishing, camping, watching wrestling, and her collection of stuffed animals. She won hundreds of the animals out of the...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for April 27 in an appeal by the state of Oklahoma in what is known as the McGirt ruling. The state argues in the case of Victor Castro-Huerta that it has concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute non-Native Americans for crimes committed against Natives on tribal reservations. The state child neglect conviction and 35-year prison sentence of Castro-Huerta, a non-Native American, was overturned by the state appeals court. Castro-Huerta was charged with malnourishment of his 5...
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A police affidavit released Wednesday says a student at a Kansas high school began shooting after an administrator and school resource officer demanded to search his backpack because of rumors the student had a gun. The student, 18-year-old Jaylon Desean Elmore, fired five shots toward the school resource officer at Olathe East High School on March 4 before he was shot by the officer and subdued by the assistant principal, according to the affidavit. Elmore's "ghost gun," was loaded with 13 9 mm rounds but a spent round b...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — First-of-its-kind Missouri legislation shows that anti-abortion lawmakers in Republican-led states aren't likely to stop at banning most abortions within their borders but also could try to make it harder to go out of state to end pregnancies. A proposal that could be debated in the Legislature as soon as next week seeks to make it illegal to "aid or abet" abortions outlawed in Missouri, even if they are performed in other states. Like a Texas law passed last year, the bill puts enforcement in the hands of r...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — When is a potato not a potato? When it's a tuber of a gourd, according to Guinness World Records. A New Zealand couple who believed they had dug up the world's largest potato in the garden of their small farm near Hamilton have had their dreams turned to mash after Guinness wrote to say that scientific testing had found it wasn't, in fact, a potato after all. Colin Craig-Brown, who first hit the tuber with a hoe last August when gardening with his wife Donna, said it sure looked and tasted like a potato. Mind y...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal officials confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Justice has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the families of most of those killed or wounded in a 2018 Florida high school massacre over the FBI's failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack. Attorneys for 16 of the 17 killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and some of those wounded previously announced in November that they had reached a monetary settlement with the governm...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy summoned memories of Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 terror attacks Wednesday in an impassioned live-video plea to Congress to send more help for Ukraine's fight against Russia. Lawmakers stood and cheered, and President Joe Biden later announced the U.S. is sending more anti-aircraft, anti-armor weapons and drones. Biden also declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a war criminal — his strongest condemnation yet — the day after the Senate unanimously asked for inter...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve launched a high-risk effort Wednesday to tame the worst inflation since the early 1980s, raising its benchmark short-term interest rate and signaling up to six additional rate hikes this year. The Fed's quarter-point hike in its key rate, which it had pinned near zero since the pandemic recession struck two years ago, marks the start of its effort to curb the high inflation that followed the recovery from the recession. The rate hikes will eventually mean higher loan rates for many consumers and b...
ATLANTA (AP) — A year after the fatal shootings at three Georgia massage businesses, crowds gathered at rallies across the country Wednesday to remember the victims and denounce anti-Asian violence that has risen sharply in recent years. Six women of Asian descent were among the eight people killed in and near Atlanta on March 16, 2021. The slayings contributed to fear and anger among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and motivated many to join the fight against the rising hostility. At the Atlanta Asian Justice rally, which drew some 100 p...
