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Every day at home my landline rings with calls I don’t want to answer. I can expect at least one call per day from “Unavailable” and one from “Toll free number.” I have an answering machine, so callers I really want to talk to can leave a message. Some of the recordings are obvious scams such as problems with my icloud account (which I don’t have) or a problem with an Amazon order (they only email me). I’ve registered on the national Do Not Call list for both my landline and my cellphone. It...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Workers on Tuesday began excavating remains of possible Tulsa Race Massacre victims, removing them from a cemetery where searchers so far have found 27 bodies, according to Oklahoma State Archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck. "Today we have actually commenced with the process of excavating four individual burials," Stackelbeck said, while the search continues for additional remains. The 1921 massacre occurred when a white mob descended on the Black section of Tulsa — Greenwood — and burned more than 1,000 homes, looted hundr...
We’ve officially adjourned the 2021 legislative session, and with it we accomplished many items that will move our state forward. We focused on a number of priorities, including expanding broadband access, protecting the unborn, increasing health outcomes and supporting our law enforcement. In the beginning of the legislative session, there were about 3,000 measures that were filed for consideration. Of those, only about 590 made it through the legislative process and were signed by the governor...
Real Estate Transfers Book 146 page 191: Larry G. Ehresman and Elizabeth Ehresman, husband and wife, unto Thad B. Ehresman and Ashley L. McAllaster. Lots 25 and 27 on First Avenue West in the Original Townsite of the City of Medicine Lodge. Joint tenancy warranty deed. Book 146 page 195: Equisetum, LLC, unto William Sanborn. Lots 83 and 84 and the north 13.75 feet of lot 85 on North Orchard Street, and the north half of lot 82 on Central Avenue, all in Orchard Park, a subdivision of Stolp’s Addition to the City of Medicine Lodge, Barber C...
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 obtained by anyone during regular hours at the Alfalfa County Courthouse. The Alva Review-Courier will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper Civil Filings Tara Coble vs. Dakota Industries, LL and Stacy...
Marriage License Monte James Stebens and Justina M. Zimbelman, Helena: marriage license. ($50)...
Real Estate Transfers Book 871 page 2: Melvin Eugene Dewitt Revocable Living Trust, unto Geraldine A. Dewitt Revocable Living Trust. The west 6 feet of lot 1 and all of lot 2, in block 4, in Holcomb Addition to the City of Cherokee, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Warranty deed. Book 871 page 5: Owen J. Bellamy and Sarah Bellamy, unto Burlington Public School District I-001. Lots 1 through 9, in block 42, township of Burlington, Oklahoma. Warranty deed. Book 871 page 6: Melissa Patterson and James Patterson, Ryan Hoggard and LaDonna Hoggard and...
Criminal Filings Joshua Paul Thompson has been charged with theft of property or services, value less than $1,500; and use/possess with intent to use drug paraphernalia into the human body. Rayna Sunshine Weber has been charged with possession of marijuana. William J. Whited has been charged with criminal threat; cause terror, evacuation or disruption. William Neal Fussell has been charged with possession of opiate, opium, narcotic or certain stimulants and use/possess with intent to use drug paraphernalia into the human body. Colby Sartain...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021 During this day there were two traffic stops. 9:15 a.m. – Caller advised he had a Polaris Ranger stolen from his property. 1:36 p.m. – Caller wanted to talk to an officer about a possible violation of a protective order. 2:36 p.m. – Report of a smoke alarm activated on CR (CR) 640. Everything was okay. 3:50 p.m. – Report of a single vehicle accident at CR 640 and Greer. Advised of no injuries. 6:03 p.m. – Report of a goat with its head stuck in a fence at 3rd Street and Nebraska. Wednesday, June 2, 2021 During this day...
Emotions ran high at Monday's Alfalfa County commissioners meeting as longtime county employee Vernon Sanders addressed Marvin Woodall, Jay Hague, and Mike Roach about the upcoming change to his employment status. Besides Sanders, Alfalfa County Sheriff Rick Wallace was in the gallery. Sanders, the jail administrator, took the floor after the commissioners signed the routine paperwork of previous meeting minutes, maintenance and operation payment warrants, monthly officer reports, and blanket purchase orders. "I would like to start out by...
Alva School Superintendent Tim Argo started off his report to the school board Monday with a list of resignations and reassignments. Dr. Steven Maier has resigned as a physics teacher. Argo said there has been low interest in the class with only three students. Dustin Moffatt resigned as high school custodian. Daren Kerns has agreed to voluntary separation as a bus driver. Cody Hooper resigned as middle school baseball coach. Cory Smith is resigning as high school principal effective June 30,...
The Cherokee school board approved hiring Keela Patterson as elementary principal and Lane Pruett as junior high/high school principal at the board regular monthly meeting Monday. Amy Eckhardt was also hired as an elementary teacher. Jeremy Hickman has resigned as junior high/high school principal; he has taken an administrative position in another school district. Superintendent Bryce Schanbacher read from the letter of resignation at the board meeting. “I started working in Cherokee in 2010,” the letter read. “I feel I was able to give back...
Following the annual meeting, the Kiowa District Hospital Board met for their regular monthly meeting May 25 at the Community Building. Board President Pat Myers called the meeting to order with all members present: Marcia Cantrell, Jeff Miller, Jim Parker. KDH CEO/CFO Janell Goodno also sat at the board table. Other KDH personnel attending were: Dr. Paul Wilhelm, Business Office Manager Tara Girty; Hospital DON Robyn Whitaker; Quality Manager/Interim DON Brandy McKitrick; Rural Health Clinic Manager Lacey Volker; Comptroller Shannon Canaday;...
Northwest Oklahoma native Shelby Cummins spent two weeks participating in a summer rural externship during which she shadowed Dr. Timothy Newton at Great Salt Plains Health Center in Cherokee, Oklahoma. Cummins, a Goltry resident, will start her second year of medical school in August at Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is a member of the inaugural class at the Cherokee Nation campus in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She is currently the president of the Students of Osteopathic Rural Medicine (StORM) club and a member of...
On Saturday, June 12, 2021, Roger and Betty Mantz will celebrate 50 years of marriage. Roger and Betty exchanged vows on June 12, 1971, at the First Assembly of God Church in Alva, Oklahoma. The ceremony was officiated by Reverend Edwin Lack. This lasting union has served as a positive example for their two sons, Chad and his wife Tyla, Tyler and his wife Alexandra, from which they are blessed with four grandchildren, Statton, Dexton, Merritt and Larson. Be sure to congratulate Roger and Betty...
Eckley and Melva Phillips of Alva are excited to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on June 14. They were married on June 14, 1971, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and lived the first 13 years of their marriage in the Denver, Colorado, area. In 1984, they moved to Cherokee, Oklahoma, where they lived until 2003. At that time, they moved to Alva, where they currently reside. Mr. Phillips worked in the transportation industry for over 40 years both in Colorado and Oklahoma, the majority with Northwest...
On Saturday, June 19, at 10 a.m. Dr. Eric Schmaltz of Northwestern Oklahoma State University (NWOSU) will give a presentation entitled “Resilience and Transformation: Germans from Russia in Northwestern Oklahoma (1889–1940)” at the Sod House Museum near Aline. Schmaltz will provide information on the general migrations and settlements of ethnic Germans from the Russian Empire in the western parts of Oklahoma at the turn of the last century. He will explore the factors that led this group to settle across the Great Plains in vast numbers, as we...
It's June 8 and everyone is at the starting gate ready to hear "on your mark, get set, go!" It's not a track meet but the excitement is there for the 2021 harvest of primarily red, hard winter wheat. Huge combines in shades of green, red, yellow and silver with enough bells and whistles to provide a concert are ready to roll into a field near you. A call Monday and Tuesday to area elevator operators in the Newsgram reading area found the following predictions. Debbie Stoner, secretary of the...
Barbara was born on November 21, 1935, in Stroud, Oklahoma, to E.K. White and Elva Cagle White and passed from this life on June 4, 2021, at her home in Cherokee, Oklahoma. She married Junior Dale Duggins on March 31, 1954, at First Baptist Church in Oklahoma City. In 1954-1958 Barbara worked at Adjutant General Office as Secretary to Major Truitt and Major Weber. In 1958 Barbara worked as a CPA at Hill Accounting Firm, at Holderby Ford and was a co-owner of Fair Store and Kountry Kitchen in...
Funeral service for Jerry Nusser was held 2 p.m. on Monday June, 7, 2021, at the Marshall Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Tony Aton officiating. Interment was in the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Jerry Dean Nusser was born March 8, 1945, in Alva, Oklahoma, to James Arlen and Afton Pearl (Heaton) Nusser and passed away June 1, 2021, in Alva at the age of 76 years, 2 months and 24 days. Jerry graduated from Alva High School. He married Karen Davison on...
A memorial service for Nina Burkes will be held 2 pm, Saturday, June 12, 2021, at the Carmen Christian Church with Pastor Kirk Board officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Wentworth Mortuary, LLC of Carmen. Nina Wiggins Burkes was born January 6, 1931, near Cleo Springs to the late Knolt and Belle Wiggins. She passed away April 29, 2020, at her home at the age of 89 years. Nina grew up in Enid and Cleo Springs, graduating from Cleo Springs High School. On October 16, 1947, she was...
Funeral services for Tammi Renee Tuxhorn, 62, of Fairview, Oklahoma, were held at 2 p.m., Saturday, June 5, 2021, at the Fairview Church of the Nazarene with Pastor Ricky Chance officiating. Interment followed at Antioch Cemetery west of Fairview under the direction of Pierce Funeral Home, Fairview. Tammi Renee Tuxhorn was born May 21, 1959, at Wichita, Kansas. She departed this life to join our Lord late Sunday evening, May 30, 2021, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Tammi attended school at...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has denied the appeal of an Oklahoma death row inmate convicted of beating a man to death with a hammer. The court on Monday denied, without comment, the appeal of James Coddington, 49, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1997 death of Albert Troy Hale, 73, at Hale's home in Oklahoma County. A defense attorney for Coddington declined comment. Coddington argued in legal filings that he was not allowed to present testimony from an addiction psychiatrist that his addiction to cocaine c...
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama and Oklahoma State have scheduled a home and home football series for the 2028 and 2029 seasons. The Crimson Tide's series with Notre Dame will move to the 2029 and 2030 seasons. Alabama and Oklahoma State announced Tuesday the first meeting will take place in Stillwater, Oklahoma on Sept. 23, 2028. The Cowboys are scheduled to come to Tuscaloosa on Sept. 15, 2029. The teams' only previous meeting came in the 2006 Independence Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana. Oklahoma State won 34-31, and Alabama subsequently hired...
GARDEN CITY, Mo. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City sheriff's deputy fatally shot a woman after being called to a home to check on the welfare of a resident there, authorities said. The shooting happened after deputies were called to a Garden City home around 3:40 p.m. Monday for a welfare check, the Cass County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. The woman was identified Tuesday as 42-year-old Crystal Guhr. When deputies arrived, they reported encountering a woman on the front porch of the home holding a gun. The deputies yelled repeatedly f...
