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OKLAHOMA CITY – State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister Thursday announced the 12 finalists for Oklahoma’s next Teacher of the Year. “These tremendous 12 finalists reflect the best of Oklahoma’s classroom teachers,” said Hofmeister. “Not only do these teachers use innovative instructional strategies, but they also place great emphasis on creating meaningful relationships with students and families. All have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the success of each of their students and are highly deserving of this honor....
Alva Church of God Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. with Pastor Nathan Braudrick. Alva Church of God is located at 517 Ninth St. in Alva and can be found on the web at www.AlvaChurchOfGod.org. Sunday: Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship is at 10:30 a.m. Evening worship begins at 5:30 p.m. Young adults gather at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday: Wednesday services include 7 p.m. Bible Study, and youth group also meets at 7 p.m. Alva Friends Church Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m.; coffee and donut fellowship at...
1 John 4:17-19 has some interesting words to read that are appropriate for where we are as a community, state and nation. Here is what John says (just in case you do not have a Bible handy), “In this, love is perfected with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, for we are as He is in the world. There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment (torment). So the one who fears has not reached perfection in love. We love because He first loved us.” Now I am sure that for som...
It's going to cost more to bail your dog out of "jail." After 45 years, the Alva City Council decided it was time to increase fees at the animal pound. The fee schedule was last changed in 1974. Since that time, the city has built a new pound near the sanitation transfer site north of Alva and just south of the Salt Fork River. Animal control is a part of the police department. Police Chief Ben Orcutt said he contacted several other cities approximately the size of Alva and asked what fees they...
Team Standings The Bowl Movements: 18 wins, 6 losses Knights of Columbus: 15 wins, 9 losses Dilly Dilly: 15 wins, 9 losses Marshall's Oldtimers: 12 wins, 12 losses O'Bar: 11 wins, 13 losses Next Frame: 10 wins, 14 losses Rollin Good Times: 9 wins, 15 losses Ghost Team: 0 wins, 24 losses Last Week's Top Scores Scratch Game: Knights of Columbus – 851, Dilly Dilly – 770, Marshall's Oldtimers – 756 Scratch Series: Knights of Columbus – 2277, Marshall's Oldtimers – 2202, Dilly Dilly – 2165 Handicap Game: Knights of Columbus – 1158, Marshall's Oldtim...
Donald Wayne Schupbach, 69, of Wichita, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, October 21, 2020, in Wichita. Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. with Celebration of Life following at 11a.m. on Friday, October 23, 2020, both at Hillside Funeral Home, 2929 W. 13th St. N., Wichita. Burial will follow at Alva Municipal Cemetery, Alva, Oklahoma. Donnie Schupbach was born at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas, on June 4, 1951, to Gladys May Schupbach and Wayne Orville Schupbach formerly of Alva, Oklahoma. Donnie was a very kind, gentle soul. He...
Funeral services for Peggy Jo Mackey will be 3 p.m. Saturday, October 24, 2020, at the Alva First Baptist Church with Pastor Derrick Thomas officiating. Interment will be in the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Due to the current COVID situation, the service will be for family only. It will be live streamed on the Marshall Funeral Home Facebook page. Peggy Jo Mackey, daughter of the late Frank Louis and Bernice Lillian (Davis) Seeger, was born...
We all collect something. I wish I had stayed with model airplanes instead of progressing to full-size cars. Like many of my day, I had models hanging from the ceiling in my room. Today we have a nice collection at the Alva Regional Airport. Roger Rhodes had a tethered model with a gas-powered engine. It went round and round in circles at the Longfellow Playground. Now we have remote controlled planes and drones. Back to collections: they are the No. 1 reason people visit museums. The Cherokee...
In August 1920 the long struggle for women’s suffrage ended in victory when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The road the suffragists had traveled had not been an easy one. They had been leading an organized movement demanding the right to vote for at least three quarters of a century. Their perseverance paid off when, by the slim vote of 49 to 47, the lower house of the Tennessee legislature ratified the proposal. And that tally had come d...
An artist talk and collage/mixed media workshop is planned for Oct. 28 by the Northwestern Oklahoma State University visual arts program’s October artist-in-residence Alyssa Klauer, a painter based in Brooklyn, New York. Klauer, who began her residency on Oct. 4, will discuss her studio practice, process, influences and body of work during her talk in the Student Center Ballroom from 7 to 8 p.m. and will move to Jesse Dunn Annex, room 327, for the workshop at 8:15 p.m. Participants will explore various masking techniques while exploring d... Full story
Northwestern Oklahoma State University has a new campus police chief in Kyle Hair. The CLEET Certified Advanced Peace Officer and Firearms instructor spent the last seven years working as a park ranger at Little Sahara State Park near Waynoka and said he was ready for something different. "I have witnessed how big of an impact Northwestern has in its community and felt like I wanted to be part of that," he said. Hair, who earned a Bachelor of Science degree in parks and recreation management wit...
The Woods County Excise Board met Wednesday morning at the courthouse in Alva with Chairman Bob Seivert, Joe Shirley and Chris Olson present along with County Clerk Shelley Reed. The minutes from the special meeting on Sept. 23 were approved. Board members approved the following monthly appropriations: District #1 Highway Cash $100,038.99 District #2 Highway Cash $109,738.46 District #3 Highway Cash $389,574.75 District #1 CBRI Fund-105 $18,413.32 District #2 CBRI Fund-105 $18,413.33 District...
Everything old is new again when it comes to battling a novel coronavirus with no cure or vaccination. Public health officials point to face masks, social distancing and good hand hygiene as pillars of the response to the coronavirus, along with robust testing and contact tracing. But there's one last-resort tool: the quarantine order. Quarantines have been used to control disease among humans and animals for hundreds of years. The word derives from the Italian word for 40 days, quaranta...
Students sit captive in a classroom. At the front of the room, a man delivers a monologue disguised as a lesson, "In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the ... Anyone? Anyone? ...the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered? ...raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. "Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the... Full story
PONCA CITY, Okla. (AP) — A magnitude 3.2 earthquake shook an area on the Kansas-Oklahoma line Thursday night, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The tremor struck at 8:17 p.m. and was centered in a remote area 22 miles (35 kilometers) northwest of Ponca City, Oklahoma, at a depth of almost 5 miles (8 kilometers). A Kay County, Oklahoma, sheriff's dispatcher said there were no reports of damage. Thousands of earthquakes have been recorded in Oklahoma in recent years, with many linked to the underground injection of wastewater from oil and g...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The search for remains of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims on Thursday revealed another body in an unmarked mass grave at a Tulsa cemetery before coming to an end, Oklahoma's state archaeologist said. "We are now able to confirm that we have at least 11 individual burials" in the area where at least 10 sets of remains were found in Oaklawn Cemetery on Wednesday, Kary Stackelbeck said. "That's in addition to the original individual," who was located near the area on Tuesday, Stackelbeck added. "So now we have at least a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The number of hospitalizations in Oklahoma due to the coronavirus is at a new record high and surpassed 900 on Thursday while the number of reported cases increased by 1,628, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health. There were 910 people hospitalized and 112,483 cases since the pandemic began in March, compared to 870 hospitalizations and 110,855 cases reported Wednesday. The department reported 11 additional deaths due to COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, to bring the total of the number dead to 1...
POTEAU, Okla. (AP) — Two men in southeast Oklahoma have been charged for allegedly performing an illegal gender reassignment surgery without a license and storing the body parts in a freezer, according to court documents. Bob Lee Allen, 53, and Thomas Evans Gates, 42, were arrested Tuesday and were still being held Wednesday at the LeFlore County Detention Center on separate $295,000 bonds. The two lured a 28-year-old to a cabin for a surgery to remove the man's testicles, according to an affidavit by Le Flore County Sheriff Rodney D...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A task force appointed by Gov. Kevin Stitt made no specific recommendations Thursday in its report concerning the impact of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared a swath of eastern Oklahoma counties remains an Indian reservation. The report instead calls consistent laws and regulations in the state governing taxation, zoning and business regulations, which Stitt said will be up to Congress to provide. "There's going to have to be some federal legislation, I think, that gives us guidance as a state. Otherwise ... it's g...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Their final debate behind them, President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden are packaging their divergent personal styles and policy prescriptions into closing messages for the final sprint to Election Day. The coronavirus was a central topic for both candidates on Friday as Trump headed to Florida and Biden prepared to address the topic in Delaware. The night before in Nashville, the pair squared off on the pandemic, the economy, climate change and race — and the nature of presidential leadership itself. Trump pitched him...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration waded cautiously into international efforts to halt fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which are engaged in their worst conflict in more than 25 years. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met separately on Friday in Washington with the foreign ministers of both countries in a bid to promote a cease-fire in hostilities over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. There was no immediate comment from any of the sides about the meetings, which followed failed Russian-led attempts to broker a truce and l...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Barbara J.K. Johnson was still in her Easter clothes when she ran out to her yard where a 14-year-old neighborhood boy lay on the ground, bleeding from a gunshot wound. He was dead by the time police arrived. Such things happen too often on South Benton Avenue in Kansas City, where Johnson, a 75-year-old retired professor and teacher, lives. A few years earlier, another young man was shot in front of the house next to hers. Before that, it was an 8-year-old girl a few streets away. Johnson tried to get help from p...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' teacher shortage finally shows signs of shrinking. But districts still can't find enough educators to keep schools running under coronavirus safety demands. "We were through the worst of it before all this happened," said Mischel Miller, the director of teacher licensure at the Kansas State Department of Education. Kansas News Service reports that new state data give schools plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the shrinking teacher shortage. Desperately needed special education teachers are finally showing u...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the killing of a 33-year-old woman whose body was found inside a Wichita motel room. The Wichita Eagle reports that an employee of the Budget Motel found Stephanie Duran of Wichita dead shortly after 10 a.m. Thursday and called authorities. Police say Duran had injuries on her body, but they didn't disclose specifics about them or say how she died. "The investigation is ongoing, and investigators are working to determine the circumstances of what occurred in this case," the Wichita Police D...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A fourth person has been arrested in a July drug killing in Wichita, police say. Jail records show the man is being held on suspicion of first-degree felony murder, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated battery and criminal possession of a firearm in the death of 47-year-old Roy Hayden of Wichita. whose body was found inside a vehicle. The Wichita Eagle reports that police said the man was taken into custody around 12:40 p.m. Thursday. He also also was booked on suspicion of aggravated robbery and robbery in a separate i...
