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Northwestern Oklahoma State University will now be able to offer qualified Oklahoma education students up to $25,500 in scholarships and incentives through House Bill 3564 signed by Gov. Kevin Stitt. The application deadline is Aug. 24. The Oklahoma Future Teacher Scholarship and Employment Incentive Program, also called Inspired to Teach, is offered to students planning to pursue a degree and a career in teacher education. The scholarship amount is $1,000 per year for up to three academic...
Alva Church of God Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship is at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Bible study is at 7 p.m. Alva Church of God is located at 517 Ninth St. in Alva and can be found on the web at www.AlvaChurchOfGod.org. Alva Friends Church Please meet us for coffee and donut fellowship at 10:15 a.m. every Sunday morning. Worship is at 10:30 a.m. If you cannot make it in person, we are on Facebook at Alva Friends Church Group. The church is located at the corner of College Avenue and Center Street. Barnes Street Church of Christ...
I was watering my garden and noticed that my tomato plants had some ripe fruit ready for me to pick. It was a joy to see the tomatoes there because I wasn’t even trying to grow a tomato plant this year. This plant had sprung up from some old seeds that had fallen on the ground from last year. The only thing I’ve mostly been doing has been watering the plant; it has produced fruit all on its own without much effort. Jesus promises us the same in John 15:5, “I am the vine; you are the branc...
We all have, or have had, a best friend at one time or another. Best friends spend time doing things together; they share things with each other, especially secrets, because they know that they can trust them! Best friends will do anything for each other. Proverbs 17:17 says, “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity,” and Proverbs 18:24 says, “One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” It seems that God created us with the need to have a friend...
By 1970, Jesse Hill Ford had become a well-known personage in his adopted hometown of Humboldt, Tennessee. Locals had come to accept him as one of their own as he and his family became part of the community. Ford’s wife, Sally, had grown up there. Her father was a medical doctor so everyone in town knew her. Her husband was an outsider but Jesse had made lots of friends in town and often went hunting with some of them. Jesse and Sally also belonged to the country club. They eventually had f...
School has started but the shortage of teachers is nationwide. Teaching is a tradition in some families but as salaries have lagged and security concerns have surfaced, it puts districts in a lurch to meet staffing requirements. Northwestern was originally a Normal (High) School but later became known as a Teacher’s College with the number of graduates fanning out to meet the demands of a growing population. Teacher education was the driver for its expansion into the communities of Enid and W...
Thanks to generous donors, the premiums for the OHCE Chili Cook-Off at the Woods County Fair have increased! Contest premiums: winners will receive $100 for first place, $50 for second place, $25 for third place, and $25 for fan favorite, which will be voted on and selected by our Chili Cook-Off patrons. Any Woods County resident is eligible to enter their favorite chili recipe into the contest, which will take place on Friday, Sept. 9 at 6 p.m., in the Women’s Building on the Woods County Fairgrounds. Participants are encouraged to make t...
Woods County Free Fair books and entry tags may be picked up at the Woods County OSU Extension Center located on the first floor of the Woods County Courthouse. The fair will be held Sept. 9 through Sept. 11. Poultry and rabbit exhibits will be required to complete pre-entry forms and exhibit tags, which are due on Friday, Sept. 3, to the Woods County OSU Extension Center. Horse show pre-entries are due by noon on Sept. 3. All poultry and rabbit exhibits must be in place, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, for entry and for blood...
The Woods County Excise Board had a very brief and routine meeting Wednesday morning at the courthouse. Joe Shirley chaired the meeting with Chris Olson and Bob Seivert present. After approving minutes of the Aug. 1 special meeting, board members approved the following monthly appropriations for the county: District #1 Highway Cash $112,631.07 District #2 Highway Cash $112,656.17 District #3 Highway Cash $112,631.08 District #1 CBRI Fund-105 $17,133.51 District #2 CBRI Fund-105 $17,133.52...
Early voting began Thursday in the primary runoff election in Oklahoma. Voters in Woods County may participate in early voting at the county election board, located in the Downtown Mall just south of the courthouse in Alva. Voting is from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. Several state and congressional candidates are on the ballot to decide which candidates will be in the general election on Nov. 8. Republicans will decide between Todd Russ and Clark Jolley for state...
The Alva Robotics Team is invited to a meeting at the Alva Public Library on Saturday, Aug. 20, at 10 a.m. Alumni team members and their families are encouraged to attend to discuss plans for the upcoming 2022 Heartland BEST Competition....
The number of active Covid-19 cases in Alva has dropped by half since last week, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) weekly report. The Aug. 18 data shows Alva with 11 active cases compared to 22 a week ago. Waynoka now has zero cases after reaching six last week. The OSDH lists zero for any numbers under five. Dacoma and Freedom also show zeroes. Statewide the OSDH is showing 17,830 active Covid-19 cases compared to 19,703 last week. In nearby counties, Buffalo and Cherokee have zero cases. Fairview has 20 and Woodward...
The July meeting of the Alva City Council was held Monday night. A long executive session turned the meeting into a 2.5 hour marathon. One of the more interesting reports at the beginning of the meeting was presented by Lenny Reed, chairman of the cemetery board. He said they have been asked to consider a "green burial" section. Green burial requires that a body be buried within 24 hours of death and not be embalmed. The idea is that the body will decay quickly and become part of the earth. Reed... Full story
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Bail was set Thursday at $10 million for a man charged in the shooting deaths of four people in a southwestern Ohio town earlier this month, including a teenage girl. Stephen Alexander Marlow, 39, did not enter any pleas during his arraignment, authorities said. He faces 13 felony charges, including aggravated murder, aggravated burglary and a weapon offense. He also faces a federal charge for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Marlow is accused of killing 82-year-old Clyde Knox, his 78-year-old wife, Eva "Sally" Knox, 4...
Sports fans who want to bet on their favorite teams should be able to make their wagers in Kansas beginning Sept. 1 if some final regulatory details are worked out, state officials announced Thursday. The four state-owned casinos in Kansas will have a tentative "soft launch" of sports betting at noon Sept. 1, with an official launch on Sept. 8, Kansas Lottery executive director Stephen Durrell said in a video announcement. Durrell said several regulatory and administrative hurdles remained to make the launch a reality "but we're hopeful we can...
CHICAGO (AP) — A woman who has been central to R. Kelly's legal troubles for more than two decades testified Thursday that the R&B singer sexually abused her "hundreds" of times before she turned 18 and that it was her and Kelly in a videotape that was at the heart of his 2008 child pornography trial, at which he was acquitted. Jane — the pseudonym for the now 37-year-old woman as she testified — paused, tugged at a necklace and dabbed her eyes with a tissue as she said publicly for the first time that the girl in the video was her and that...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple disclosed serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs that could potentially allow attackers to take complete control of these devices. Apple released two securityreports about the issue on Wednesday, although they didn't receive wide attention outside of tech publications. Apple's explanation of the vulnerability means a hacker could get "full admin access" to the device. That would allow intruders to impersonate the device's owner and subsequently run any software in their name, said Rachel T...
