Articles from the June 2, 2019 edition
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Menus for week of June 3–7
Woods County Senior Citizens Monday – Spaghetti with meat sauce, tossed salad with ranch dressing, green beans, garlic bread, applesauce (diabetic: unsweetened applesauce). Tuesday – Monterey chicken with rice, yellow and zucchini squash, mixed...
National Garden Week, June 2–8, is almost here
Alva Garden Council will sponsor several activities for National Garden Week. Alva Petunia and Tulip Garden Club members will take posters or flower bouquets to various local businesses. Newly elected officers will be installed on Wednesday, June 5,...
DOROTHY MAE YOUNG
Celebration of Life services for Dorothy Mae Young will be Wednesday, June 5, 2019, at 2 p.m. in the Marshall Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Ed Crenshaw, her nephew, officiating. Interment will be in...
STELLA KERFOOT
The funeral services celebrating and honoring the life of Stella Kerfoot, 96, of Enid will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday June 3, 2019, in the Brown-Cummings Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Clayton...
Barbara Faulkner's 80?
Saturday, June 1, was a busy day for Alva. Besides the 50th Nescatunga Arts Festival, there was the 15th Mud Slinger Shootout at the fairgrounds. This also was the day Wayne and Beverly Kinzie chose...
Woods County Communications phone log
Friday, May 24, 2019 6:07 p.m. – Medic needed for a female in Hunter. 8:29 p.m. – Report of cattle out on Craig Road and County Road 440. Saturday, May 25, 2019 4:11 a.m. – Caller advised she heard someone trying to break into her house in the...
Woods County court filings
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...
Marriage Filings
Brandon Matthew Keplinger, Alva and Samantha Ruth Felts, Alva: marriage license ($5)....
Woods County real estate transactions
Real Estate Transfers Book 1292 page 501: Wesley Braddock and Tilly Braddock, husband and wife, convey unto Lane A. Skinner. Lot 1, block 1, revised plat of Legion Heights Addition to the City of Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma. Warranty deed. Book...
Baugh attends first hospital authority meeting
The Alva Hospital Authority welcomed new board member Kimberly Baugh at their meeting May 28. Baugh replaces Steve Ward who moved outside the city causing his resignation. Other board members present...
Resignation, new hires on Alva School Board agenda
The Alva Board of Education will have several personnel items on the agenda for their meeting Monday. The board meets at 5 p.m. at the superintendent’s office, 418 Flynn St. The board will hear about a resignation and a couple of reassignments of...
18-year-old from Cherokee dies in collision
Colton L. Carter, 18, of Cherokee, died from injuries in a two vehicle collision Friday. The crash occurred at 12:48 p.m. on US281 South at Greer Road about a half mile south of Alva in Woods County. Carter was pronounced dead at the scene and was...
Woods County commissioners issue Disaster Emergency Proclamation
Woods County commissioners held an emergency meeting moments before their regular Monday morning meeting May 27 to discuss – and ultimately approve – a Disaster Emergency Proclamation for the county. All three commissioners – John Smiley,...
Beto O'Rourke heading to Oklahoma to tour flood damage
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke is heading to northeast Oklahoma to tour communities hit with historic flooding. The former Texas congressman spoke at the Democratic state convention in California on Saturday...
Oklahoma Heart Hospital settles whistleblower lawsuit
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma hospital has agreed to a $2.8 million settlement in a whistleblower lawsuit in which a former nurse alleged the hospital made false Medicaid claims. Oklahoma Heart Hospital admitted no wrongdoing in paying out the...
Cherokee Nation leadership election begins
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Citizens of the Cherokee Nation are voting in elections that will decide who will be their principal chief and deputy principal chief. Cherokee Nation spokeswoman Julie Hubbard says elections began Saturday morning and polls...
Animals left homeless by Oklahoma storms brought to Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) — Dozens of dogs and cats left homeless by recent storms in Oklahoma have been brought to Chicago. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that PAWS Chicago volunteers and medical staff went to Oklahoma to take nearly 60 dogs and cats from...
Q&A: Possible closure of Missouri's lone abortion clinic
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri has at least temporarily avoided becoming the first state without a functioning abortion clinic since 1974, the year after the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. A St. Louis judge on Friday intervened on behalf of a...
McCurdy Auction set to sell a Wichita home for the homeless
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — McCurdy Auction is preparing to sell to a house that a Wichita man willed to the Union Rescue Mission in 2018 before he died. McCurdy will sell Amin L. Brandhorst's four-bedroom, 2.5 bathroom house to the highest bidder on Satu...