Articles from the May 12, 2023 edition
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Baccalaureate Sunday at the eXtreme
The Ministerial Alliance invites seniors and their parents to attend this year's Baccalaureate. The religious graduation ceremony will be this Sunday at 6 p.m. at the eXtreme on the Downtown Alva Square....
By Lean on Him, not on "me"
Psalm 73:26: My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. Psalm 73:27: For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. Psalm 73:28: But it...
Religious services and events
Alva Church of God Alva Church of God is located at 517 9th St., in Alva. Sheryl White is our pastor. Sunday: Normal hours are Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. with morning worship at 10:30 a.m. Sunday evening youth meet at 5 p.m. This is for youth sixth...
Do people really sin anymore?
It’s a good question: “Do people really sin anymore? I mean, who defines sin in America these days? America has reared several generations that do not understand what sin is and have no morals when it comes to their actions. People lie, cheat and...
Tobacco use
“Smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ in the body” –Centers for Disease Control. Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death and disability in th...
Ramblings of a Redneck Farmer
Most of you know, but for those who do not, I attend a Men’s Breakfast and Bible Study on Tuesdays and sometimes on Thursdays, just depending on what is going on. We can have anywhere from six to 16 men at either of the breakfasts and I’d say the...
Random Thoughts
After “Call It Sleep” became an international best-selling novel in the 1960s, Henry Roth occasionally dreamed of reviving his literary career. He tried to write a few things but produced nothing of s...
Alva High track brings home state medals
Qualifying members of the Alva High School track teams traveled to Ardmore May 5-6 to compete in the state meet. The Alva girls were named Class 3A State Academic Champions. Sophomore Lakin Gaddy... Full story
Northwestern's English, Foreign Language, Humanities Department inducts students into honor societies
Northwestern Oklahoma State University's English, Foreign Language and Humanities Department inducted new members into two national honor societies. Sigma Delta Pi is the national Hispanic honor...
Northwestern education students present 'Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type'
Northwestern Oklahoma State University education students performed "Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type" by Doreen Cronin for Enid Public Schools Fowler Early Childhood Center students recently. The...
Apache Drive waterline repairs approved in emergency meeting
An emergency meeting of the Alva City Council was called for 5 p.m. Thursday after costs to fix a waterline break exceeded the $25,000 spending limit of the city business manager. Present for the meet... Full story
Summer Reading Program begins June 5 at Alva Public Library
Summer is shaping up to be busy at the Alva Public Library. Director Sandra Ott handed out information to the library board during Monday afternoon’s meeting. Flyers were also distributed to Alva students about the summer reading program. Little Expl...
Nescatunga Arts Festival expanding to 3 days
Members of the Nescatunga Arts and Humanities Council are planning a three-day event this year for the 52nd Nescatunga Arts Festival in Alva. It will be June 2-4 in a new location: Percefull Fieldhouse at Northwestern Oklahoma State University and...
As public health emergency ends, pandemic-era support programs have already been fading away
WASHINGTON (AP) — The formal end of the national Public Health Emergency on Thursday is largely a symbolic and psychological step, representing the country's formal emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic. But behind the scenes, several core aspects o...
Oklahoma police rush to respond to cries for help ... from a goat
ENID, Okla. (AP) — Sometimes a wrong call can really get your goat. Police in Enid, Oklahoma at first walked slowly and cautiously through the grassy, wooded area of a farm seeking the source of faint cries in the distance. "That's a person," one o...
Kansas governor thwarts small legal settlement with business over COVID-19 restrictions
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' Democratic governor on Thursday scuttled a small legal settlement favored by top Republican officials between the state and the owner of a Wichita fitness studio forced to shut down during the first months of the coronavir...
Prosecutors reveal link between terror defendant in Virginia and Islamic State 'empress' from Kansas
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia man arrested on terrorism charges has a husband-wife relationship with another American who was dubbed by authorities as an " empress of ISIS " for her work to establish an all-female battalion of the I... Full story
'Chonkosaurus,' plump Chicago snapping turtle captured on video, goes viral
CHICAGO (AP) — Footage of a plump snapping turtle relaxing along a Chicago waterway has gone viral after the man who filmed the well-fed reptile marveled at its size and nicknamed it "Chonkosaurus." Joey Santore was kayaking with a friend along t...
Elon Musk says he's found a woman to lead Twitter as new CEO
Elon Musk said Thursday he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it's now called — and it's a woman. He did not name her but said she will be starting in about six weeks. Musk, who bought Twitter last fall and has been running it since, h...
Man indicted on 98 charges including hate crimes for 2022 shooting at Taiwanese church in California
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding five others at a Southern California church luncheon last year has been charged with dozens of federal hate crimes in connection with the attack, which i...
18 years after Natalee Holloway's disappearance, Peru to extradite key suspect to US
LIMA, Peru (AP) — The chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway is poised to face charges linked to the young woman's vanishing for the first time after the government of Peru authorized his extradition t...
Migrants rush across US border in final hours before Title 42 expires
MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Migrants rushed across the Mexico border Thursday, racing to enter the U.S. before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are lifted in a shift that threatens to put a historic strain on the nation's beleaguered immigration s...
EPA: New pollution limits proposed for US coal, gas power plants reflect 'urgency' of climate crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration proposed new limits Thursday on greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants, its most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the nation's second-largest c...
'Money, power, sex': Idaho jury deliberates case against slain kids' mom in alleged doomsday plot
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho jury is weighing the fate of a woman charged in the slayings of her two youngest children and a romantic rival in what prosecutors say was a strange doomsday-focused plot. Lori Vallow Daybell wanted the victims' money, s...
US Postal Service honors civil rights leader, Ponca tribe Chief Standing Bear, with stamp
A Ponca tribe chief whose landmark lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under the law was honored Friday with the unveiling of a U.S. Postal Service stamp that features his portrait. The release of the stamp of Chief...
