Sorted by date Results 1 - 25 of 58
Grow and Share OHCE group met on Tuesday, June 18, in the home of Mary Hamilton. Christie Vickers was the hostess. The meeting was called to order at 6 p.m. and all the members recited the flag salute. Vickers presented a devotional entitled, "Don't Focus on Trivial Things," with a Bible reference of II Corinthians 4:18. Guests Amy Erikson and Donna Fondren were introduced and all present answered roll call to the question "What are your summer plans?" Minutes from the May meeting were approved as corrected and the treasurer's report was...
Menu for Woods County Senior Citizens Monday – Crispitos with homemade chili and cheese sauce, tossed salad with dressing, corn, rosy applesauce (diabetic: applesauce). Tuesday – Ham and beans, spinach, cornbread, cinnamon roll (diabetic: vanilla wafers). Wednesday – Meatloaf, mashed potatoes with brown gravy, broccoli, hot roll, pumpkin pie (diabetic: graham crackers). Thursday – Oven-fried fish with tarter sauce, potato wedges, coleslaw, cornbread, mixed fruit (diabetic: sugar-free fruit). Friday – Closed....
The Alva Board of Education will hold their final meeting of the fiscal year on Tuesday, June 25, at 5 p.m. The meeting will be at the superintendent’s office at 418 Flynn. Board members will go over the financial report, activity fund report, activity fundraisers, and child nutrition report. There will be discussion and a vote to declare a list of items from Lincoln School as surplus property. The list includes 150 VHS movies, some computers and accessories, a TV, and an ice machine. The s...
First, I wish to thank the citizens of Alva for all their calls and messages over the past several months regarding the developments and plans for the Alva Municipal Swimming Pool. Since the end of the 2018 summer, the City staff and council committees have been studying and planning major renovations to the city pool. After 80 plus years of service to the community, the Oklahoma State Department of Health determined that the pool would no longer be able to operate as it was designed in the...
I was glad to see many concerned citizens show up at the council meeting on Monday. I was also glad to see Mayor Kelly tabled the fire charges. He said he was going to send it back to committee for more study. In case you don't understand, back to the committee equates to repositioning the citizens of Alva to stick it to us from a different angle. I Googled charging for fire calls and not many towns do this. I am not totally opposed to fire call charges in some cases, but over-educated people...
Friday, June 14, 2019 9:38 a.m. – Burglar alarm went off at the Angry Bull Saloon. 9:41 a.m. – Complaint about truck driving in Avard. 11:16 a.m. – Commercial burglar alarm in the 1200 block of Lane Street. Saturday, June 15, 2019 2:45 a.m. – Medic needed for a person with trouble breathing. 9:28 a.m. – Report of cattle out. 11:40 a.m. – Smoke alarm going off in Wakita. 1:30 p.m. – Controlled burn on Belva. 4:28 p.m. – Report of a fight and threats at Buena Vista Apartments. 8:53 p.m. – Medic needed for a person who had a seizure and fell and h...
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 Woods 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 Dacoma Farmers Cooperative, Inc., Dacoma, vs....
Real Estate Transfers Book 1293 page 1: D.L.H. Construction Intermediary LLC conveys unto Tom Foote. A tract of land located in the northwest quarter of section 7, township 27 north, range 13 West of the India Meridian, Woods County, Oklahoma. Quit claim deed. Book 1293 page 3: Jerrad Hada, a single person, conveys unto Luke Taylor and Jennifer Taylor, as joint tenants. Lot 8, block 2, east View Addition to the City of Alva. Warranty deed. Book 1293 page 18: ARG PH31SLB001 LLC conveys unto AFN ABSPROP001 LLC. A tract of land located in the...
The Alva Tourism Tax Committee barely had a quorum of three members to consider the one funding request for their June meeting. Members present for the June 19 meeting were Norville Ritter, Dr. Charles Tucker and Jaunita Dotson. Absent were Terri Parsons and Connor Martin. Secretary Jody Bradford reported on financials. The committee has $510,472.21 available after deducting grants approved previously. Ritter noted that tourism revenue coming in is up about 53 percent compared to last year. That’s with two businesses not having turned in t...
OKLAHOMA CITY — Members of the Oklahoma Society of Certified Public Accountants elected 2019-2020 board of directors and saw them installed at the 101st Annual Members Meeting on June 7 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The newly elected board includes: • Henry Bickerstaff, CPA, a sole practitioner in Alva, Oklahoma, will serve as chairman of the board. He has been a member for 40 years. • Christy Sughru, CPA, a sole practitioner in Edmond, Oklahoma, will serve as chairman-elect. She has been a member for 11 years. • Sharon Haley, CPA, a supervi...
A Waynoka man was injured Thursday when his motorcycle rolled north of Waynoka. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Milton Boone Thorp, 50, of Waynoka, was transported by Air Evac from the scene to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City. He was admitted there for trunk internal injuries and listed in stable condition. The wreck occurred at 12:53 p.m. June 20 on State Highway 14 one-half mile north of Comanche, which is two and a half miles north of Waynoka in Woods County. Thorp was driving a 1984 Honda motorcycle southbound on SH14 and for...
A Kansas man died Tuesday afternoon near Alva. He was in a truck which left the road and drove into a wheat field. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol released his name on Friday. The fatality incident occurred at 3:27 p.m. on State Highway 11 approximately a quarter mile east of U.S. Highway 281. The location is about seven miles north of Alva in Woods County. Eduardo Aguilera, 29, of Topeka, Kansas, was pronounced dead at the scene. He was transported by Marshall Funeral Home of Alva to the Medical Examiner’s Office in Oklahoma City. M.E. I...
A large number of people attended the Alva City Council Monday, June 17. After a lengthy meeting and executive session, those who stayed had the opportunity to address the council. Mayor Kelly Parker cautioned, "The council is not allowed to debate anything you say. We will listen." He also asked Councilmember Brandon Sherman to time the speakers and signal when their two minutes were up. Most of those present talked about the recent citywide spraying for mosquitos. Steve Thompson: "I'm here to...
Other than the citizen comments, which are covered in a separate story, the only controversy during the Alva City Council meeting Monday involved the Oklahoma Natural Gas franchise. City Business Manager Joe Don Dunham presented three employee recognition awards early in the meeting. He convinced police officers to attend by asking them to report on the Pack the Park event from last weekend. The public works manager was asked to be available to answer questions about a possible pickup purchase.... Full story
Thirty-four talented area youth will bring "Guys and Dolls, Jr." to the ACT I stage on June 27, 28 and 29 at 7:30 p.m. The musical romantic comedy is set in 1950s mythical Manhattan and involves the unlikeliest of pairings: a high-rolling gambler and a puritanical missionary; a showgirl dreaming of the straight-and-narrow and a crap game manager who is down on his luck. Career gambler Sky Masterson makes the bet of a lifetime to win the heart of "Save a Soul" missionary Sarah Brown, while long-s...
LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — Demonstrators including Japanese Americans who were detained as children by the U.S. government during World War II spoke out Saturday against the Trump administration's plans to house migrant children at an Oklahoma Army base. At a park near Fort Sill, protesters hung paper cranes that organizers said were folded by people across the country. Speakers decried the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and spoke out against detaining asylum seekers and immigrants. Hundreds of Japanese and Japanese American p...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A man on trial over an October 2017 shooting in downtown Lawrence that killed three people and wounded two others has testified he wasn't "thinking at all" when he fired his gun. The Lawrence-Journal World reports that testimony ended Friday in the Douglas County District Court trial of 22-year-old Anthony Roberts Jr. of Topeka. The charges against him include two counts of first-degree felony murder. Roberts contends he acted in self-defense after being confronted by a hostile group as bars prepared to close in a p...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Residents of a Kansas City, Kansas neighborhood have filed a federal lawsuit over flooding during the summer of 2017 that accuses businesses and local officials of negligence. The lawsuit filed earlier this month by five residents in the U.S. District Court for Kansas accuses the companies of leaving debris in a drainage creek west of the Argentine neighborhood. It also names the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, as a defendant. The Kansas City Star reports that the lawsuit claims the d...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Sedgwick County plans to start offering ID cards to military veterans. Register of Deeds Tonya Buckingham proposed offering the cards through her office as a way to combat people who falsely claim to be veterans. The Wichita Eagle reports the Sedgwick County Commission approved the plan on Wednesday. The cards will be free to veterans and Buckingham's office will pay the costs. She expects to begin issuing the cards in about two weeks. Buckingham says she got the idea from the Cook County deeds office in Chicago. S...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas education officials are raising pay and fast-tracking various teaching professionals in a two-pronged effort aimed at combating teacher shortages. Last year, Kansas schools had more than 600 vacant positions, many in rural areas and the state's most urban districts. Low pay has been blamed for much of the trouble attracting and retaining teachers. Legislative approval of multi-year school funding increases amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars has given districts a chance to offer teacher raises that were diffi...
BROWNSBURG, Ind. (AP) — A former central Indiana teacher who lost his job after citing religious reasons for disagreeing with a policy compelling teachers to call transgender students by their preferred names rather than birth names has sued the district. The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday claims the Brownsburg Community School Corp. and its administrators violated John Kluge's First Amendment right to freedom of speech and free exercise of religion, among others. The lawsuit seeks full back-pay and the value of benefits as well as c...
NAVARRE, Ohio (AP) — A federal civil rights complaint alleges an Ohio high school student faced harassment from school officials and his basketball coach after they learned he was gay. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Akron says the student at Fairless Local Schools in northeastern Ohio lost virtually all basketball playing time and was punished with workouts not ordered for other players. The June 6 lawsuit says that beginning in the fall of 2017 the student was subjected to threats, harassment, intimidation and discrimination at s...
JASPER, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama sheriff's department says it has foiled a plan by two inmates to detonate homemade bombs in a county courthouse. Al.com reports that 29-year-old Bryant Wayne Williams Jr. and 56-year-old Terry Keith Hammond are charged with four counts of making a terroristic threat. Both men are from Jasper, and both remain in the Walker County jail. The Walker County Sheriff's Office said they had given themselves the code names "Pinky & The Brain" and were planning to create ammonium nitrate/fuel oil bombs. Investigators s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran has increased its offensive cyberattacks against the U.S. government and critical infrastructure as tensions have grown between the two nations, cybersecurity firms say. In recent weeks, hackers believed to be working for the Iranian government have targeted U.S. government agencies, as well as sectors of the economy, including oil and gas, sending waves of spear-phishing emails, according to representatives of cybersecurity companies CrowdStrike and FireEye, which regularly track such activity. It was not known if any o...
