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CAMDEN, Ark. (AP) — A 3-year-old boy and his 1-year-old brother survived alone for about two days after they were passengers in a single-car wreck that killed their mother in south Arkansas. The older boy was found first, wandering alone on Monday morning along a road in Camden, about 85 miles (135 kilometers) southwest of Little Rock, the Ouachita County Sheriff Office said. Authorities posted the boy's photo online in hopes of identifying him and learned that his mother hadn't been seen for days. Later Monday, police returned to the area w...
Tomorrow evening, Aug. 23, the Miss Burlington Pageant begins at 7 p.m., with no admission charge. Both senior girls in the Burlington High School Class of 2019 are competing for the crown. They are Sadie Cruisinbery and Caitlin Flackman. The daughter of Shawn and Paula Cruisinbery, Sadie will perform a Tahitian dance to Fakateretere. Caitlin is the daughter of Ron and Carman Flackman and will perform a humorous monologue entitled, "Every Flavor of the Rainbow." Judges will select the winner...
The Miss Timberlake Pageant is scheduled for Sunday afternoon, Aug. 26, at 3 p.m. at the high school auditorium in Helena. Contestants include Sophia Leierer, daughter of Doug and Marleen Leierer; Caitlyn Fargo, daughter of William and Cynthia Wayman; KaLynn LeForce, daughter of Spencer and Nicole LeForce; and Skylar Fishback, daughter of Rob and Jennifer Fishback. Sophia will be performing a saxophone solo and Caitlyn, KaLynn and Skylar will be performing vocal solos. Contestants will compete...
The Burlington Elks plan to celebrate the years of friendships and memories made at Burlington High School with an all-school reunion Labor Day weekend, Aug. 31 – Sept. 2. A highlight of the weekend is certain to be the Community Praise and Worship Service at 10:30 Sunday morning in the school auditorium. Oklahoma's U.S. Sen. James Lankford will take on his familiar role as pastor and give the message. Prior to Lankford's time in Congress, from 1995 to 2009 he served as director of student m...
The Woods County commissioners held a second public hearing Monday morning on the proposed Alva Arena Economic Development Project Plan. Commissioners present were David Hamil, John Smiley and Randy McMurphy. Others present were County Clerk Shelley Reed and Woods County Economic Director Sonja Williams. Citizens Ronald Edwards, Todd Holder and Kat Lunn were there as well. The purpose of the hearing was to provide information, including an analysis of potential positive or negative impacts, and...
The regular meeting of the Woods County commissioners occurred after the second public hearing about the Alva Arena Economic Development Project Plan with all commissioners in attendance, as well as Shelley Reed, county clerk; Kat Lunn of the Alva Review-Courier; Sonja Williams, Woods County economic director; and Larry Conner of Barber County. Two meetings’ minutes were approved, Aug. 6 and 13, moved by Hamil and seconded by McMurphy. Next, a permit for a private electric line by Midstate Petroleum was discussed and approved (motioned by M...
Memorial services for Avis Leah Marcum, 97, are pending at Marshall Funeral Home of Alva....
Funeral services for Lynn Douglas Puffinbarger were 1:30 p.m. Friday, August 3, 2018, at the Cherokee Friends Church with Rev. Dave Emery officiating. Interment followed in the Byron-Amorita Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Lynn Douglas Puffinbarger, son of the late Elmer Ray and Jessie (Terry) Puffinbarger, was born March 16, 1931, in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, and passed away July 31, 2018, at Cherokee, Oklahoma, at the age of 87 years, 4 months and 15 days. Lynn...
Charles Wayne Thom, 93, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, died Sunday, August 19, 2018, at Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital. He was born on January 29, 1925, in Medicine Lodge to Hugo and Stella (Moomau) Thom. Wayne graduated in 1943 from Isabel High School. Wayne was very proud of his military service, serving in World War II with the United States Army Regiment 19 the 24th Infantry in the Philippines from 1944 to 1945. Wayne was awarded the Purple Heart. After the war he began farming and ranching...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced on Thursday the Northwestern Oklahoma State University men’s cross country team has been picked to finish sixth in the league standings as voted on by the GAC coaches. Mixing a young squad of runners with veteran leadership has the Northwestern coaching staff excited about the upcoming year, as well as the future. “We were really pleased with the team last season,” said head coach Jill Lancaster, who enters her second year leading both men’s and women’s cross country programs. ...
(Editor's note: Last week a story ran about Coach Steve Roberts being honored for a winning record in his 25 years of coaching Lady Chieftains basketball at South Barber High School in Kiowa, Kansas. He retired from that position. At the end of the story was a quote from one of Roberts' former players. The quote was accidentally omitted in the layout process. We regret the error. The quote follows.) One of his former players is Calli (Mathews) VanRanken who was on the 2008 state team. When asked about Coach Roberts, she said, “Growing up I h...
If you don't want to hear more information about fighting cancer, you would be happier to move on from this column to the next Newsgram page. I'm hoping that something I stumble upon might help you or a family better cope if you are suddenly hit with this wicked disease as I have been. When we moved to Alva, about 50 years ago, our basic list of non-church acquaintances came from the Zion Lutheran Church in Alva. We photographed and printed a church directory and church family pictures for...
