Breakfast Menu for Alva Public Schools (AHS is a Grab-n-Go breakfast with choice of main breakfast item or substitute item) Monday—Labor Day, no school Tuesday—Cinnamon sugar rich's pancake bites, cereal, fruit, juice, milk Wednesday—Breakfast bowl,...

Do you have creative flair? Do you like to construct items that are useful and unique? Then you may want to enter the Woods County Free Fair Duct Tape Division! Requirements for construction are: • Items may be made with any color duct tape • Ite...

The Open Class Foods Division has something for everyone to make and enter at the Woods County Free Fair, Sept. 9–11. Jellies, preserves, jams, spaghetti sauce, brownies, dinner rolls, and sliced crispy pickles, just to name a few, may be entered. E...

Do you have an “ugly” squash, zucchini, tomato or pumpkin in your garden? If so, bring it to the Poultry/Crops Building at the Woods County Free Fair, Sept. 9, at the Woods County Fairgrounds south of Alva. The “ugliest” vegetable will receive...

The Woods County Tax Roll Board held a special meeting Tuesday to make two corrections to assessed values for the 2020 Tax Roll. Present for the meeting were Woods County Commissioner Chairman Randy McMurphy, Assessor Renetta Benson and Excise Board...

Students leave Northwestern Oklahoma State University with the knowledge to succeed in a particular field. In their final semester, 14 senior education students have received their student teaching assignments and have entered area schools to gain...

Oklahoma’s law preventing schools from mandating masks is temporarily on hold due to a judge’s ruling Wednesday morning, Sept. 1. That means school districts can move forward with a mask requirement on school campuses potentially by early this wee...

A federal civil suit against Woods County Undersheriff Keith Dale and other defendants has been dismissed. A document filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma on Sept. 1 states that the parties jointly stipulate that... Full story

As we head into fall, the number of important meetings at the Capitol, including interim studies and other work in preparation for the coming session, are increasing weekly. While I’ll be chairing the Agriculture and Wildlife Committee hearings f...

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...

Real Estate Transfers Book 1321 page 1095: Elk Woods Ranch, LLC, unto Lowell Leray Demaree. Section 17, township 27N, Range 13w, NW4. Warranty deed. Book 1321 page 1097: Lowell Leray Demaree, unto Joseph H. Macourbrie, Section 17, township 27N,...

Alva, Oklahoma – The Rangers hosted their first game of the season today with a home match at Rangers Soccer field against the Mustangs of Midwestern State University. The Rangers would fall 3-0 in their opener after the Mustangs would take a...

San Angelo Texas – The Northwestern Oklahoma State Rangers volleyball team opened up their season with a doubleheader Friday with match one against Texas A&M Kingsville and Anderson University in the evening as part of the Kathleen Brasfield ASU Invi...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Spencer Rattler passed for 304 yards, and No. 2 Oklahoma beat Tulane 40-35 on Saturday in a game that was relocated from New Orleans because of Hurricane Ida. Oklahoma led by five in the fourth quarter and Tulane had possession,...

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — Cattle producers for 35 years have been bankrolling one of the nation's most iconic marketing campaigns, but now many want to end the program that created the "Beef. It's What's for Dinner" slogan. What's the ranchers' b...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man and woman who were found dead from gunshots wounds apparently died in a murder-suicide, Shawnee County authorities said. The bodies of a man and woman were found Friday afternoon in a home just south of Topeka, Sheriff B...

ROME (AP) — Italian police on Saturday were hunting for a Naples tobacco shop owner who allegedly ran off on a motor scooter with a customer's "scratch and win" game card, which had clinched the top prize of 500,000 euros ($580,000), Italian news r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday that cleanup crews are responding to a sizable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following Hurricane Ida. The spill, which is ongoing, appears to be coming from a source underwater at an offshore d...