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South Barber's Board of Education conducted their Nov. 12 business in just over one hour. All members were present as President Mark Pollock called the meeting to order: Emily Lohmann, Karen Watts, Mike Miller, Brett Mott, Jarrod Inman and Bryan Quick. Superintendent Dr. Mylo Miller and Board Clerk Alyssa Gonzales also sat at the table. Shortly after the meeting began Dr. Miller recognized Nikki Brattin, fourth-grade teacher, as South Barber's Teacher of the Year. "She's always positive. The...
ALVA – Northwestern Oklahoma State Volleyball closed out the 2024 regular season at home Thursday evening against Oklahoma Baptist. The Rangers took Set 1 before Oklahoma Baptist came back late in Set 2 to even the match and close the match with a 3-1 victory over the Rangers. The Rangers finish the regular season 13-15 with a 7-9 overall conference record, while Oklahoma Baptist improves to 16-12 overall with a 10-6 conference record. Erika Asencio Soriano led the Rangers with 13 kills f...
Kindness is one of the first qualities children learn. Kindness is the quality of being gentle, caring and helpful. As people grow, unfortunately, some forget the true meaning of true kindness, but not Kayla Leeper, an Alva FFA member. In 2017 Leeper started "Kayla's Kindness Project," when she was just eight years old. After visiting her grandpa Johnny Sittingdown at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center while he was undergoing chemotherapy, Leeper said, "It looked like the life was draining out o...
ALVA – Northwestern Oklahoma State had a non-conference game against Cameron University on Wednesday evening. The Aggies used 23 points from Aaron Jacob to top the Rangers 89-85. Northwestern falls to 2-2 on the season with Cameron improving to 2-3 on the year. The Rangers were led by Camron McDowell with 26 points, one of three double-figure scorers joined by Max Alexander with 18 and DaRaun Clark with 14. Kabeya Tshibangu led the team in rebounding with six. McDowell and Alexander each had t...
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. Civil Filings US Bank National Association, Owensboro, Kentucky, vs....
Real Estate Transfers Book 903, page 434: Dal Houston, a successor trustee of the Herbert C. Schubert Trust No. 1, and Susan Palmer, a successor trustee of the Herbert C. Schubert Trust No. 1, convey unto Ashley Wilson, a/k/a Ashley Renae Cochran. A tract containing 4.3 acres, more or less, located in the southeast quarter of Section 14, Township 28N, Range 12, WIM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Quit claim deed. Book 903, page 437: Ashley Renae Cochran, s/p/a Ashley Wilson, convey unto Bo Allen Ferrell and Megan S. Ferrell. A tract of land...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 During this day: three traffic stops and one report of cattle out. 8:24 a.m. – Medic needed at James Crabtree Correctional Center for a 79-year-old male having trouble breathing and stomach pain. Medic took the patient to Bass Hospital in Enid. 5:13 p.m. – Report that a railroad-crossing arm on OK-45 was broken. 6:08 p.m. – Report of a juvenile male harassing his juvenile daughter, at Aline-Cleo High School, and sped away flipping rocks on the caller's vehicle. 7:10 p.m. – Report that a white van headed east on US-6...
Memorial services for Edith Marie Haight will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, November 30, 2024, at the First Christian Church in Cherokee, Oklahoma, with Pastor Luke Heim officiating. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Edith Marie Evans, daughter of the late Walter Melvin and Wilma Ada (Brace) Evans, was born July 12, 1942, at Alva, Oklahoma, and passed away November 23, 2024, at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at the age of 82 years, 4 months and 11 days....
Lydia Jane Kirkendall, 85, of Aline, Oklahoma, passed away peacefully on November 20, 2024. Lydia was born on December 23, 1938, and raised at Perkins, Oklahoma. After graduating, she entered the nursing field, where she met her husband, David. Together they had four children. Lydia was a person full of love, always giving whether it be in her nursing career or friends that stopped by. She always met friends with a full meal made with love as the main ingredient. Lydia spent her last days surrou...
I was sworn into my fifth term in the Oklahoma House of Representatives last week. This is always a great occasion for many reasons. First, it reminds me of the trust those in my House district have placed in me to serve their interests at the state level. Second, it gives me an opportunity to thank my family and those who have supported me in my legislative service. Joining me on the House floor during the oath of office ceremony on Nov. 20 were two of my granddaughters – Kaylynn Hoffman and I...
I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving and the chance to connect with some of my family for a meal. My daughter suggested a Tex-Mex menu this year. While I enjoy the traditional turkey dinner, you can’t go wrong with Tex-Mex in our family. Does your family have specific dishes that must be served for Thanksgiving? For my late husband, it was pecan pie although he’d settle for chocolate cream. Because it doesn’t show up much except for this time of year, I always wanted cranberry sauce. It could b...
The new Senate term started Nov. 20, and I am busily working on upcoming legislation, moving our office and preparing for what the new transition in leadership will bring. I also have a renewed focus on what issues are pertinent to our community. With that in mind, I have been attending events that directly or indirectly affect District 19. Gov. Stitt held a water conference and research symposium on Nov. 19th. I was asked to participate in a legislative panel to discuss water concerns within...
The Timberlake Tigers defeated Paoli last Friday to advance to the Oklahoma football semifinals. The Tigers won 48-0 at home in the quarterfinals. On Dec. 6, Timberlake travels to Western Heights to play Ryan with a 7 p.m. kickoff. The other Class C semifinal is between Tipton and Tyrone. That game will be played at Woodward Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. The Cherokee Chiefs lost 48-0 to Seiling in Class B-II last week, ending Cherokee's season. Seiling will take on Covington-Douglas Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. in...
At this week's Alfalfa County commissioners meeting, Garret Johnson and Nate Ross tabled a couple of agenda items until next week when their fellow commissioner Mike Roach returns. Those items included a request to change a sheriff's office receiving officer to Melissa Leslie and a 324A claim form and 50 percent invoice from Poe and Associates indicating drive-out complete, waiver valuations, and all offers made for JP No. 35426(04) on unnamed creek project. Commissioners Johnson and Ross were unsure what the paperwork on the latter was about...
When Chairman Randy McMurphy brought up the idea of raising the wages of county employees, the other two Woods County commissioners quickly jumped on board. “I think it’s high time we do something,” said David Hamil. “I think we’re way behind,” agreed John Smiley. The commissioners looked at three proposals and decided on the highest, which would add $400 annually for each employee. They discussed whether the wage increase would begin January 1, 2025, or earlier. McMurphy suggested they make it retroactive to July1, 2024, the beginning o...
"If you had told me 30 years ago today I'd be standing up here giving a Veterans Day speech, I would've had a hard time getting you," a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, Jared Ackerman told the Burlington Veterans Day Program audience. "I never really had aspirations to join the army. I remember sitting in Mrs. Newlin's science class the day our country was attacked and the Twin Towers fell." A BHS freshman, Ackerman said, "I was too immature and too ignorant to understand the significance of...
Burlington School Board President April Kisling called the November meeting to order with board members present including Robert Hill, Terry Graham, T.J. Rockenbach and Lindsay Callison. Also present were Superintendent Gerrett Spears, Principal Stan Pedersen and Minutes Clerk Brook Keast. Guests included Carleigh Hill, Faith King, Chloe Jantz, Leah Rosenberger, Toni Moore, Kasie Young, Jody Tottress and Carrie Dotson. Spears said Targa settled for 35 percent. This is a huge hit for Burlington School – “Near $2 million less than they exp...
The Big 12 and the Southeastern Conference have issued fines to schools whose fans stormed the field after important victories on Saturday, some doing so before the game was even over. Fans of 14th-ranked Arizona State thought their 28-23 win over No. 19 BYU was over and poured onto the field after a fourth-down pass by Sun Devils quarterback Sam Leavitt was thrown high and out of bounds. The play started with 7 seconds on the clock and officials rules there was 1 second remaining. Clearing the field took 15 minutes before BYU tried a Hail...
Champaign, IL --- (This story was originally published by the Sentient.) When Brent Hershey entered the hog business, he was told that every pork producer in America uses gestation crates on their farm. Gestation crates are metal enclosures, typically seven feet long and two feet wide, where a pregnant female pig, a sow, is kept during her pregnancy. The stalls are so small that sows typically cannot sit or lie down for four months -- the entirety of their pregnancy while in the stall. And these gestation crates, long a fixture in industrial...
LONDON (AP) — For nearly nine months, John Alfred Tinniswood held the title of world's oldest man, marking his 112th birthday during his reign. His record-holding status ended Monday when Tinniswood died in a care home in northwest England near Liverpool, where he was born on Aug. 26, 1912, his family said in a statement. Tinniswood attributed his longevity to "pure luck." "You either live long or you live short, and you can't do much about it," the retired accountant and great-grandfather told the Guinness World Records when he earned the titl...
President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them, surveillance and artificial intelligence technology that the Biden administration already uses to help make crucial decisions in tracking, detaining and ultimately deporting immigrants lacking permanent legal status. While immigration officials have used the tech for years, an October letter from the Department of Homeland Security obtained e...
DETROIT (AP) — If Donald Trump makes good on his threat to slap 25% tariffs on everything imported from Mexico and Canada, the price increases that could follow will collide with his campaign promise to give American families a break from inflation. Economists say companies would have little choice but to pass along the added costs, dramatically raising prices for food, clothing, automobiles, booze and other goods. The president-elect floated the tariff idea, including additional 10% taxes on goods from China, as a way to force the countries t...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel approved a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement with Lebanon's Hezbollah on Tuesday, setting the stage for an end to nearly 14 months of fighting linked to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip. Israeli warplanes meanwhile carried out the most intense wave of strikes in Beirut and its southern suburbs since the start of the conflict and issued a record number of evacuation warnings. At least 24 people were killed in strikes across the country, according to local authorities, as Israel signaled it aims to keep pummeling...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday reached a required agreement with President Joe Biden's White House to allow his transition staff to coordinate with the existing federal workforce before taking office on Jan. 20. The congressionally mandated agreement allows transition aides to work with federal agencies and access non-public information and gives a green light to government workers to talk to the transition team. But Trump has declined to sign a separate agreement with the General Services Administration that would h...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro was fully aware of and actively participated in a coup plot to remain in office after his defeat in the 2022 election, according to a Federal Police report unsealed Tuesday. Brazil's Federal Police last Thursday formally accused Bolsonaro and 36 other people of attempting a coup. They sent their nearly 900-page report to the Supreme Court, which lifted the seal on Tuesday. "The evidence collected throughout the investigation shows unequivocally that then-President Jair M...
