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Menu for Woods County Senior Citizens Monday – Taco salad with tomato, lettuce and salsa, corn, baked chips, strawberry crisp (diabetic: strawberry crisp) Tuesday – Mac and cheese with ham, carrots, cabbage, biscuit, gingersnap cookie (diabetic:...

 
 By Marione Martin    Local    July 18, 2021

Pool Funding Advisory Committee on agenda for Alva City Council

The Alva City Council will discuss and vote on establishing a Pool Funding Advisory Committee during their meeting Monday. The council will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of City Hall. Two...

 

Coffeetime

Ever used a dull steak knife and had to hack and tear your way through that ribeye? Ever tried to use a pair of scissors that lost its sharp edge a long time ago? Ineffective at best, and it can actua...

 

Grow and Share OHCE regular meeting for June

Grow and Share OHCE met for its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. on July 12 at the Lutheran Church. Amy Erikson served as hostess. President Janet Cunningham called the condensed business meeting to order. The meeting was condensed to allow ample time...

 

Woods County Communication logs

Friday, July 9, 2021 9:48 a.m. – Medic needed for an unresponsive person but they are breathing. 11:23 a.m. – Medic needed for diabetic problems in the 600 block of Barnes. 12 p.m. – Report of a theft. 1:59 p.m. – Report of a theft 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...

 

Woods County real estate transactions

Real Estate Transfers Book 1320 page 47: Steven E. Sterling and Joni L. Sterling, unto Kathryn Elizabeth Lane. Lot 7, block 1, City of Ala, Legion Heights 2nd. Warranty deed. Book 1320 page 69: Jeffrey Jack Struckle and Joe Jay Struckle, unto...

 
 By Jim Scribner    Local    July 18, 2021

The fix was in, again

Mary Hamilton resigned from the Alva City Council, prompting the need for a replacement. I was sad to see her go, but she needs to do what's best for her and her family. The obvious choice was the...

 
 By Marione Martin    Local    July 18, 2021

Wide open space invites creativity

When classes begin Aug. 12, Alva High School art students will have a beautifully remodeled facility to enjoy. With the art building remodeling project completed, school board members and... Full story

 

RAY DEAN LINDER

Ray Dean Linder was born in Waynoka, Oklahoma, January 30, 1935, and passed away peacefully at Beadles Nursing Home in Alva, Oklahoma, on July 15, 2021, surrounded by family. Celebration of life...

 
 By Ted Harbin    Sports    July 18, 2021

Nuptials find Cowboy Christmas

Slack had just ended on July 2 at the Black Hills Roundup Rodeo in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, and the boys were hungry. The bulldogging traveling posse of Jacob Edler, Stockton Graves, Riley...

 
 By Keaton Ross    Regional    July 18, 2021

Empty, western Oklahoma town faces an uncertain future

HINTON-When the price of crude oil nosedived in the mid-1980s, this rural community halfway between El Reno and Weatherford was in trouble. Oil rig workers, once flush with cash and eager to spend it... Full story

 
 By Marione Martin    Local    July 18, 2021

'Economic development is never done by one person'

By the time the Alva Chamber Community Coffee concluded Friday morning, the crowd had grown to exceed the generous number of chairs available. The event was held at Windy Ford, formerly owned by the... Full story

 

Choctaw Nation reinstates mask mandate at health facilities

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma has reinstated a mask requirement for visitors at tribal health facilities. Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority announced on Facebook Friday that all visitors must wear a mask and placed...

 

Man who apparently shot himself in standoff identified

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Sedgwick County authorities have identified a 43-year-old man who they say shot himself during a standoff at a motel. Police on Saturday identified the man as Ramiro Rosete Jr. He died at a hospital. The Sedgwick County...

 

KCK police investigate deaths of 2 men found in car

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police in Kansas City, Kansas, say two men found near a crashed vehicle were homicide victims. Police were called just before 5 a.m. Friday and found two men unconscious and not breathing near a vehicle that appeared to...

 

South Dakota's Noem taking swings at potential 2024 rivals

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — More than 18 months before the first presidential primary of 2024, most potential Republican candidates are just getting a sense of the political landscape, tiptoeing through early-voting states and trying to make friends...

 

3 Texas Democrats who fled elections bill vote get COVID

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three of the Democratic state lawmakers who fled Texas to stymie a Republican-backed effort to impose broad new voting restrictions have tested positive for COVID-19, the Texas House's Democratic Caucus director said Saturday....

 

Europe flood death toll tops 160, costly rebuilding ahead

BERLIN (AP) — Rescue workers labored to deal with damage laid bare by receding water Saturday as the death toll from disastrous flooding in Western Europe rose above 160 and thoughts turned to the lengthy job of rebuilding communities devastated...

 

Analysis: How Afghan war showed limits of US military power

WASHINGTON (AP) — It took only two months for U.S. invaders to topple the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, a seemingly tidy success against a government that had given refuge to 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. Twenty years later, the United States...

 

Huge Oregon blaze grows as wildfires burn across western US

BLY, Oregon (AP) — The largest wildfire in the U.S. torched more dry forest landscape in Oregon on Sunday, one of dozens of major blazes burning across the West as critically dangerous fire weather loomed in the coming days. The destructive...

 

Biden pledges appeal of 'deeply disappointing' DACA ruling

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Saturday that the Justice Department intends to appeal a federal judge's ruling deeming illegal an Obama-era program that has protected hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation and he...

 

Non-profits find new uses for Johnson County's Poor Farm

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The lands around the Johnson County Historic Poor Farm are being put to use by local non-profit groups and charities in a much different way than the asylum's original owners in 1855 may have intended. The Global Food Project...

 

CDC exempts unaccompanied migrant children from deportation

DALLAS (AP) — Unaccompanied migrant children will be exempt from a ban on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S. border, federal health officials ordered Friday. The order by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a temporary...

 

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