Articles from the July 4, 2018 edition
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Alfalfa 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...
Alfalfa County real estate transactions
Real Estate Transfers Book 828 page 830: U. Roscoe LLC conveys unto William H. Johns and Ruth Johns: the north 125 feet of the W/2 of Block 4 in Cary’s Addition to Jet. Joint tenancy warranty deed. Book 828 page 840: John E. Lamle and Lola J. L...
Alfalfa County Sheriff's Office logs
Monday, June 25, 2018 2:34 p.m. Deputy had a traffic stop on State Highway 11 and County Road 510. 2:49 p.m. Deputy had a traffic stop at State Highway 11 and County Road 660. 3:45 p.m. Caller advised of a person who has a burn pit and dumps the...
Barber County court filings
Civil Filings Deere Credit Inc. vs. Patriot Roustabout Service LLC: debt collection. Hummon Corporation vs. George Seward: debt collection. Limited Civil Filings Synchrony Bank vs. Kim Roland: other contract. Traffic Filings Michael R. Blumer has...
Barber County real estate transactions
Real Estate Transfers Book 143 page 363: Suzanne Marie Mahan, a single person, grantor, conveys unto Jay Don Hofen and Karibeth Hofen, husband and wife, grantees: lots 1, 2 and 3 in block 97 in the City of Hardtner. Joint tenancy warranty deed. Book...
Barber County Sheriff's Office log
June 25, 2018 Lake City and Sun City Fire Department responded to hay bales on fire on McAdoo Road. Sgt. Paasch investigated fireworks being shot off in Kiowa. June 26, 2018 Medicine Lodge ambulance responded to north Burr in Isabel. No transport....
South Barber School Board conducts brief end-of-fiscal-year meeting
The USD 255 Board of Education met for its year-end meeting on Thursday, June 21, at 7 a.m. A budget hearing was held on the amended budget for KPERS expenditures and transfers, and the amended budget was then approved. The board also approved...
By Alfalfa County commissioners approve welding and appraisal contracts at Monday meeting
The Alfalfa County commissioners attended their regularly scheduled meeting Monday morning, starting with signing the purchase order for a new piece of equipment (backhoe for District 1) from Yellowhouse. The machine will be financed through...
KDH Clinic has busiest month in five years with Dr. Wilhem's return
The Kiowa District Hospital Board conducted business in open session in approximately 30 minutes on June 20. They met in executive session before the meeting began near 30 minutes and about another one and a half hours at the end of the meeting. KDH...
Alva's Gaddy, Timberlake's Bryant make Youth Leadership Oklahoma trip around state
Dru Bryant is a Timberlake Tiger. Landry Gaddy is an Alva Goldbug. Both are outstanding high school seniors who were selected to be part of the select group Youth Leadership Oklahoma (YLOK) who had...
Waynoka school board addresses staffing, policy issues in regular meeting
A quorum was met Thursday evening at Waynoka’s regularly scheduled board of education (BoE) meeting, with only one member, Clint Olson, absent. The administrators called the meeting to order and began quickly tackling the three-page agenda. First u...
Lawsuit over fatal beanbag shooting by officer can go forward in Barber County case
A federal judge has decided to allow a wrongful death lawsuit to continue against Barber County Undersheriff Virgil Brewer, who fired a so-called “less lethal” beanbag round at close range into the chest of 42-year-old Steven Myers. Although the jud...
Term limits – to have or not to have for Kiowa council and mayor seats?
Thursday evening between 30 and 40 residents gathered at Kiowa's Community Building to discuss and/or listen to an explanation about term limits for the city council member and mayor. Kiowa's City...
RUDY E. WHITE
Rudy E. White, 75 of Pearcy, Arkansas, passed away on Friday, June 22, 2018. He was born in Hardtner, Kansas, to the late Virlan and Mary White on November 15, 1942. He was of the Baptist faith and...
Lynn Says
Sunday evening, Marione and I stumbled across a music special from Austin, Texas, that honored Johnny Cash. I think it was several years old, but that didn't matter. It featured a couple dozen...
TY REASNOR NAMED GAC MALE SCHOLAR ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - 2017 Google Cloud Division II Football Academic All-America® of the Year winner Ty Reasnor added another honor to the list on Monday, as the Great American Conference named him the 2017-18 GAC Male Scholar Athlete of the Year....
Group drops effort to repeal tax hikes for Oklahoma teachers
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An anti-tax group seeking to roll back a package of tax increases approved by the Oklahoma Legislature to help fund a teacher pay raise said Monday it is abandoning the effort. The Oklahoma Supreme Court's recent decision to t...
New Oklahoma University president slashes executive jobs
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The new president of the University of Oklahoma announced Monday, his first day on the job, that he is laying off about one-third of the executives who report directly to him. Restructuring will help keep tuition rates stable a...
Oklahoma man works to expand interest in futsal
LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — Futsal is not a sport most Americans are even familiar with. However, one Lawton man is trying to change that, in Southwest Oklahoma at least. Mark E. Brown is the president of the Oklahoma Futsal Association and the S...
Girl Scouts plan new $11M Oklahoma City camp facility
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Lilly Thomson sells Girl Scout cookies just about as well as anyone, and she proved it by moving more than 6,000 boxes of Thin Mints, Tagalongs and Do-si-dos this year, earning her a trip to Disney World. But the trip was far fro...
Rescued, injured sea turtles find new home in North Texas
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — In North Texas, where longhorns and quarter horses are a common sight, Pancake sticks out. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports first, she's a green sea turtle, a reptile native to the Texas coast who possesses a wide s...
Amazon fulfillment center project underway in Tulsa
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — David Charney recently went out to the Amazon fulfillment center site for the first time since he sold the land on which the massive facility will be built. Bulldozers were digging into the ground, etching swaths of dark brown s...
International tourists enjoy Oklahoma stop along Route 66
ARCADIA, Okla. (AP) — The rumble of motorcycles announces the arrival of a group of tourists on a bright early May morning at the Round Barn in Arcadia. "They're here," one of the barn's staff members said aloud. Within moments, the silence of an o...
Community supported farms fill niche in Minnesota
SPRING VALLEY, Minn. (AP) — Community-supported agriculture farms in the Midwest have been putting fresh boxes of produce on the doorsteps of their urban and suburban neighbors since the 1990s. The volume of farmers trying their hand at the cooperati...
