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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 Alfalfa County Courthouse. The Newsgram will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper. Felony Filings Carl Joe Schneeberger, Cherokee, 31, has been charged wit...
Woodward and Alva have been rivals in many sports, but it's been more than four decades since Alva and Woodward met on a varsity football field. That rivalry was renewed last Friday, Sept. 13, when the Class 2A Goldbugs hosted the Class 4A Boomers at Ranger Field. The Goldbugs had the only touchdown in the first half, leading 8-0 at the break. Alva increased their score to 15 in the third quarter. The Boomers were finally able to score twice in the fourth quarter, cutting the Alva lead to two...
ALVA – Northwestern Oklahoma State's volleyball team opened conference play in Percefull Fieldhouse Tuesday evening with a perfect 3-0 sweep over the Tigers. The Rangers improved to 4-5 on the season with a 1-0 Great American Conference record. East Central falls to 5-4 with a 0-1 conference mark. Northwestern was led by Erika Asencio Soriano with 10 kills, followed by Carmae Jones, Ece Ozdemir, Ivanny Blackwood each with four blacks on the evening. Hennesys Lalane had 21 assists and Brianda Dia...
ALVA – Northwestern Oklahoma State women's soccer team was home against Northeastern State Sunday afternoon. The Rangers continued the homestand with the third straight home game. The Riverhawks used a first half goal to take the first lead before closing out a 3-0 win. Northwestern falls to 1-2-1 on the season while Northeastern improves to 4-0 on the year. Rachel Brown faced 13 shots on goal having 10 saves in the game. Victoria Ruvalcaba had two shots along with Adrianna Gutierrez, each t...
Real Estate Transfers Book 902, page 31: Travis Jeffries and Amy Jeffries convey unto Jeff Irwin and Alyssa Irwin. West half of the northwest quarter of Section 20, Township 24 north, Range12, WIM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Joint tenancy warranty deed. Book 902, page 46: Larry Cochran and Christy Cochran convey unto Chad Roach and Mike Roach. The northwest quarter of the northeast quarter, and the northwest quarter, each in Section 20, Township 26 north, Range 10, WIM, etc. Warranty deed. Book 902, page 50: Larry Cochran and Christy Cochran...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 8:32 a.m. – Medic needed at Great Salt Plains Health Clinic for a 51-year-old male with an infection. Medic took the patient to Bass Hospital in Enid. 9:22 a.m. – Medic needed at James Crabtree Correctional Center for a 66-year-old male. Medic took the patient to Bass Hospital in Enid. Wednesday, September 18, 2024 1:33 p.m. – Medic needed in the 900 block of Pennsylvania because she and her husband had fallen. Medic took both patients to St. Mary’s Hospital in Enid. 3:32 p.m. – Caller advised of an argument...
Funeral mass for Angie Reid will be 10 a.m. Saturday, September 28, 2024, at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial will follow in the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home. There will be a Rosary held at 7 p.m. Friday at the Marshall Funeral Home Chapel. Dorothy Angela (Isenbart) Reid, better known as Angie, was born May 27, 1946, in Alva to parents, Fredrick Joseph and Marie Ann (Ney) Isenbart. She passed away peacefully on September 22, 2024, leaving be...
Funeral service for Phyllis Otis will be held Tuesday, October 1, 2024, at 2 p.m. at the First Christian Church in Alva. Viewing will be Monday, September 30, 2024, from 12 p.m. until 6 p.m. at Lanman Funeral Home in Cherokee. Arrangements are by Lanman Funeral Home, Inc. Cherokee, Oklahoma. Online condolences may be made at www.lanmanfuneralhome.com....
Memorial services for Thamazin Harrison will be 2 p.m. Thursday, September 26, 2024, at the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) with Rev. Ron Pingelton and Rev. Drew Kirtley officiating. A private burial will be prior to the service under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Thamazin LaMargie (Heydman) Harrison, daughter of the late LaVerne and Margaret (Wesley) Heydman, was born May 30, 1936, at Stillwater, Oklahoma, and passed away September 23, 2024, at Oklahoma City,...
I want to clear up some misinformation circulating about legislation that's affected some state investments with companies that have Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) policies. Some are arguing that the Legislature and the state treasurers are inserting politics into the investment strategies of state retirement systems. I must point out that it is the investment companies with ESG polices that are themselves inserting politics into the system. They are the ones using environmental,...
Back when I was growing up, we relied on printed materials for all kinds of information. Magazines about Hollywood stars were popular among teens as a way to learn the latest fashion trends and how to style hair and makeup. There were no teen-oriented magazines at that time, although they arrived later. As a young teen in a very small town, I enjoyed reading a column in a big city newspaper that was written by a well-known modeling agency. Once of the topics was how to sit gracefully. They gave...
Friday, Oct. 11, is the last day to apply for voter registration to be eligible to vote in the Nov. 5 General Election, Alfalfa County Election Board Secretary Stephanie Jantz said today. Jantz said that persons who are United States Citizens, residents of Oklahoma, and at least 17 ½ years old are eligible to apply for voter registration. However, you must be at least 18 years old to vote. Applications must be received by the county election board or postmarked no later than midnight, Oct. 11. Applications postmarked after that time will be acc...
On Monday, the Woods County commissioners signed a memorandum of understanding with the City of Waynoka concerning the senior citizens center there. The county has ARPA funds available that will be used to renovate the former nursing home building for use as a senior center. Chairman Randy McMurphy opened the meeting with Commissioner John Smiley and District 1 Foreman Damien Starks present. County Clerk Shelley Reed also attended. The commissioners received two responses from architects on a request for qualifications for work on the senior...
The Alfalfa County commissioner meeting on Monday was brief. Stephanie Jantz from the Alfalfa County Election Board and Sheriff Gary Mast joined commissioners Garret Johnson, Mike Roach and Nate Ross in the gallery. Jantz was there to see the bids for 12-month ballots. Commissioners opened two envelopes, one of which was a no-bid. The other was from Royal Printing, and it was accepted. Sheriff Mast was there to sign his part of the county's 2024-2025 Estimate of Needs and the FY 2023-2024 financial statement once the commissioners approved...
Burlington school board's Aug. 27 regular monthly meeting lasted just over three hours and had an action-packed agenda from a plan for improving curriculum and test scores; update on Targa protested taxes; hiring new teachers and cafeteria staff; learning total school enrollment is 138 and a law was recently passed allowing out of state transfer enrollments without a financial obligation; and much more. Board President April Kisling called the meeting to order at 7:03 p.m. with board members...
Take a deep breath, close your eyes and listen to the rustle of the tall, natural grass blowing in the wind – the way this prairie was before inhabited by the Indians and eventually the pioneers, explorers and more. Imagine buffalo roaming by cool streams of water and fighting sounds only of animals. Then you hear the thunder of horses’ hooves pounding the prairie. The rest is history. Come to Medicine Lodge this Friday-Sunday to experience a piece of history and have some relaxed fun. In 1917 the citizens of Medicine Lodge made the ini...
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Cherokee resident in a domestic assault and battery case. Carl Joe Schneeberger, 31, has been charged with domestic assault and battery by strangulation – second and subsequent, a felony. According to court records, Cherokee Police Chief Ryan McNeil was dispatched to the home of Kymberli Hamil and Schneeberger on Sept. 12. McNeil states that he is familiar with both parties from prior law enforcement contacts that include a past domestic violence incident. While he was responding to the address, h...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S. The first execution was carried out on Friday in South Carolina. Another death row inmate in Missouri was put to death Tuesday evening. If the three remaining scheduled executions in Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas are carried out this week, it will mark the first time in more than 20 years — sin...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The quiet part about the evolving landscape of name, image and likeness compensation in college athletics was bound to be said out loud, and it wasn't that shocking when Tennessee's athletic department stepped forward, cleared its collective throat and stated the obvious. A week has passed since the school announced a 10% "talent fee" for 2025 football season ticket renewals to help pay its athletes and help the No. 6 Vols attract and keep the best talent. That's in addition to a 4.5% hike that athletic director Danny W...
WETUMPKA, Ala. (AP) — At the height of Muscogee power, thousands of people filled the tribe's sprawling territory on the lush banks of the Coosa River in present-day Alabama. Oce Vpofv, or Hickory Ground, was a town, a ceremonial site, burial ground, and the last tribal capital before the Muscogee people were forcibly removed from the Southeast to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. Today in its place, the Wind Creek Casino and Hotel rises 20 stories above the winding river. The development is at the center of a long-simmering dispute between two t...
It became more common for authorities to charge women with crimes related to their pregnancies after the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, a new study found — even if they're almost never accused of violating abortion bans. In the year after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to abortion in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling, at least 210 women across the country were charged with crimes related to their pregnancies, according to the report released by Pregnancy Justice, an advocacy organization. That's the h...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the United Nations warned gathered leaders Tuesday that impunity, inequality and uncertainty are driving modern civilization toward "a powder keg that risks engulfing the world" — the latest in an increasing number of clarion calls from Antonio Guterres in recent years that the global situation is becoming intolerable and unsustainable. "We can't go on like this," the secretary-general said in an alarming state-of-the-world address as he opened the annual high-level gathering of the U.N.'s 193 member nat...
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman's home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed Tuesday over the objections of the victim's family and the prosecutor, who wanted the death sentence commuted to life in prison. Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted in the 1998 killing of Lisha Gayle, who was stabbed during the burglary of her suburban St. Louis home. Williams was put to death despite questions his attorneys raised over jury selection at his trial and the handling of evidence in the case. His clemency peti...
