Articles from the November 19, 2017 edition
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Menus for the week of Nov. 20 – 24
Breakfast Menu for Alva Public Schools Monday – Super chocolate donut, fruit cocktail, juice, milk Tuesday – Sausage patty, biscuit, applesauce, juice, milk Wednesday – No school Thursday – No school Friday – No school Lunch Menu for Alva Public Sc...
Petunia Garden Club members learn about ferns
Petunia Garden Club members met Nov. 8 in the Fireside Room of the Cherokee Strip Museum hosted by Eleanor Ring and co-host Susie Koontz. Members Barbara Faulkner, Marilyn Davison, Joanne Price, Wanda Cox, Barbara Case, Koontz and Ring answered roll...
By Water dominates city meetings
Water is the main topic in city meetings Monday night. A new EMS director will be sworn in, and new rates for police fines and costs will be proposed. The Alva City Council meets at 6:30 p.m. in the council chambers at City Hall. Following will be...
Tourism Committee approves $22,150 in funding
The Alva Tourism Committee approved two funding requests and decided to give a lesser amount for a third Wednesday, Nov. 15. Norville Ritter chaired the meeting, which was attended by committee members Charles Tucker, Terri Parsons and Bryce Benson....
Avard Regional Rail Park shows profit
The board of the Avard Regional Rail Park approved a financial report for business of this fiscal year through Nov. 14. The project had income of $96,025, mainly from rail car charges and land leases. Expenses came to $88,823.89, including costs...
Couple charged with felony child neglect
Felony warrants have been issued for an Alva woman and a Woodward man. Christina Ann Richardson, 28, of Alva and Cody Shane Glitsch, 29, of Woodward were charged with felony child neglect on Nov. 2 in Woods County. This crime is punishable by...
School Board candidate filing set to begin Monday, Dec. 4
Candidates for the boards of education in four Woods County school districts will file their Declarations of Candidacy beginning at 8 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 4, continuing Tuesday and Wednesday, Woods County Election Board Secretary Sandra Koehn said...
Waynoka woman charged in relationship with juvenile
A Waynoka woman, Ashleigh Nichole Sheppard, is facing two felony charges in Woods County involving a 16-year-old minor. She has been charged with (1) pornography – procure – produce – distribute – possess juvenile pornography and (2) solicit...
New roadside scanner contract brings uninsured drivers closer to automatic tickets
The website for Massachusetts-based Gatso USA shows one of its roadside cameras used to capture images of license plates of drivers who speed. The company is contracting with Oklahoma to provide scanners for detecting uninsured vehicles. This story...
San Francisco painter is November Artist-in-Residence at Northwestern
Christine Aria, a painter from San Francisco, is the November Artist-in-Residence with the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Visual Arts Program. Aria’s intensive representations of the figure range in size from larger-than-life-size p...
19 Northwestern students in children's production 'McQuadle: A Dragon's Tale'
Nineteen Northwestern Oklahoma State University students will take to the Herod Hall Auditorium stage Nov. 16-18 for the annual children’s production, “McQuadle: A Dragon’s Tale.” Nearly 1,800 elementary students from surrounding schools will be...
'Compassion in Action Dignity Drive' underway
The Northwestern Oklahoma State University chapter of the Social Workers Association of Tomorrow (SWAT) organization is accepting donations for personal hygiene products as part of the “Compassion in Action Dignity Drive” at all Northwestern loc...
Northwestern students, faculty to raise funds for Child's Play Charity during 24-hour livestream
Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s Computer Science program will sponsor a 24-hour livestream to raise funds for Child's Play Charity from 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, until 9 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 3. Members of the program will gather in the Bill and...
Carl's Capitol Comments
After numerous attempts to raise revenue over the past eight weeks of special session, the Oklahoma House of Representatives and the Senate passed a budget bill last week and sent it to the...
First things first
However your next games turn out, thank you for a great Goldbugs-style football season. You are fine representatives for our town on and off the field. Let's all have a great Thanksgiving Day this...
Clutch free throws seal Lady Rangers' first conference victory
ALVA, Okla. – A clutch free throw with just four seconds left on the clock by junior Jade Jones earned the Northwestern Oklahoma State women's basketball team their first win of the 2017-18 season, 72-71, over Henderson State inside Percefull F...
Woods County Communications phone log
Friday, November 10, 2017 5:21 a.m. Reporting party (RP) advised a fire alarm was going off. Saturday, November 11, 2017 12:26 p.m. RP advised she hadn't been able to get ahold of her son. He lives in Woodward and works in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. RP...
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...
Divorce Filings
Maryann Rising, Alva, vs. Perry Steven Risinger, St. Joseph, Louisiana: dissolution of marriage ($252.14)....
Woods County real estate transactions
Real Estate Transfers Book 1269 page 551: James L. Haas and Dixie Lee Haas, husband and wife, and Trenton H. Haas and Melissa D. Haas, husband and wife, unto James L. Haas and Dixie Lee Haas, husband and wife. Lot 4, in block 5, of the east View Addi...
Woods County Sheriff's Office phone log
Thursday, November 9, 2017 1:20 a.m. Police department called for information. 10:17 a.m. Man called for warrant check. 1:05 p.m. Woman called about email information. 2:51 p.m. Man called about inmate. Friday, November 10, 2017 12:22 p.m. Woman...
National air women's race coming to Alva next summer
April Mills of Vantage Plane Classics expressed tremendous excitement at the Chamber Community Coffee Friday morning, Nov. 17. "We have the national air women's races coming to Alva," she said. "We wi...
