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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...
Three weeks before he was named the Democratic nominee for president, Joe Biden released a comprehensive criminal justice reform plan. The President-elect proposes abolishing the federal death penalty, shutting down private prisons and incentivizing states to bring down their imprisonment rate. He also promises to expand funding for drug courts and more aggressively investigative local police departments that show a pattern of civil rights violations. Though state and local governments are the...
Northwestern Oklahoma State University will host two commencement ceremonies on Sunday, Dec. 6, in Percefull Fieldhouse. The 2020 spring and summer graduates will be honored at 1 p.m., and the 2020 fall graduates will be honored at 3:30 p.m. Dr. Steve Lohmann of Oklahoma City, a 1978 Northwestern graduate and executive vice president and chief academic officer emeritus, will deliver the commencement address. Lohmann holds a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education, a master’s degree in education with an emphasis on administrative lea... Full story
Landis Trekell, age 85, of New Boston, Texas, passed away on December 1, 2020, at Wadley Hospital in Texarkana, Texas, after a 22-day stay in ICU battling Covid-19. A memorial service was held in Nash, Texas, on December 3, 2020, at Chapelwood Funeral Home with visitation from 4 to 5 p.m. and the memorial service from 5 to 6 p.m. A public visitation will be held in Alva, Oklahoma, at Wharton Funeral Chapel from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday, December 5, 2020. Private family graveside services...
In 1959 we drove the “Family Truckster” to Evanston, Illinois, to visit Great Aunt Daisy. She lived on the shore of Lake Michigan, just a few blocks from Northwestern University. It was a big deal for a country boy from northwestern Oklahoma to dip a foot in one of the Great Lakes, one of five that hold 84 percent of the fresh water in North America. How great are they? Shaped by the retreat of glaciers 11,000 years ago, they have a long history of interaction with humans. Home to the Anishinaab...
Russellville, Ark. – The Great American Conference released their preseason coaches' poll this morning for women's basketball, with the Lady Rangers tabbed for sixth place in the Western Division. The preseason poll is voted on by the 12 head coaches in the conference. Northwestern received six points, which placed them in sixth in the Western Division. Southeastern and Southwestern tied atop the with three first-place votes and 23 total points. Southern Nazarene, who claimed 17 points to come in third, East Central in fourth with 13 points and...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference coaches have predicted a fourth-place tie for Northwestern Oklahoma State Men's Basketball team in 2020-21, with the preseason poll announced on Tuesday. Southeastern Oklahoma State is the preseason favorite to win the Western Division in the GAC with 24 total points and four first-place votes. Followed by Oklahoma Baptist, who claimed the other two first-place votes and 21 overall points, Southern Nazarene, the defending champions are picked third with 16 points. NWOSU and SWOSU each received...
HAYS, Kansas – After having the start of their season delayed by over a week due to COVID, the Fort Hays State women's basketball team made their season opener a game to remember. The Tigers closed on a 16-4 run including ten unanswered over the final 5:21 and beat Washburn 75-69 Tuesday at Gross Coliseum. Washburn (1-1) built their biggest lead at 65-59 with 7:52 to play but a three-point play by freshman Katie Wagner started the Tiger comeback. Jaden Hobbs hit a three to pull the Tigers (1-0) within one at 69-68 with just under five m...
What if there had been no “China Virus?” What if this wasn’t an election year? What if we would have had to show up in person to vote rather than the “mail-in ballot debacle?” What if there wasn’t a war between the left and the right? What if there wasn’t the proclamation of war between the truth and news networks now dedicated to propaganda? Wishful thinking? What if you hadn’t said those words that cut that person to the core? What if you would have been faithful to your wedding vows rather than give in to your flesh? What if you had control...
The family into which Charles Dawes was born in 1865 had been successful in the fields of politics, business and military service for generations. Charles and his siblings would carry on those traditions. Charles had three brothers, all of whom became successful in the fields of oil, public utilities and banking. One of them, Beman Dawes, represented the family’s Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1905 to 1909. The Dawes family members were staunch Republicans w...
Team Standings The Bowl Movements: 40 wins, 8 losses Dilly Dilly: 30 wins, 18 losses Knights of Columbus: 26 wins, 22 losses Rollin Good Times: 25 wins, 23 losses Marshall's Oldtimers: 22 wins, 26 losses O'Bar: 21 wins, 27 losses Next Frame: 17 wins, 31 losses Ghost Team: 0 wins, 48 losses Last Week's Top Scores Scratch Game: Rollin Good Times – 846, Knights of Columbus – 816, Marshall's Oldtimers – 788 Scratch Series: Rollin Good Times – 2282, Knights of Columbus – 2275 O'Bar – 2178 Handicap Game: Marshall's Oldtimers – 1190, Rollin Good T...
The Alva Ladybugs opened their basketball schedule with a victory over the Chisholm Lady Longhorns at home Tuesday night. Alva led for most of the game, widening the margin to double digits, but Chisholm fought back to take the lead in the final period. The outcome was down to the wire with the Ladybugs winning 72-70. Alva pulled ahead in the first quarter 14-9, and both teams added 19 in the second for a halftime score of 33-28 with the Ladybugs leading. In the third quarter, the Lady...
After the football season, the Alva Goldbugs had little time to prepare for basketball. Coach Shane Feely said several scrimmages were canceled due to Covid at other schools so Alva had only one scrimmage before the home opener against Chisholm Tuesday. The Longhorns won the game 57-38. Chisholm broke out to an early 8-0 lead before Alva could get on the scoreboard. At the end of the first quarter, the Longhorns led 10-6. Alva added nine points in the second period, but Chisholm increased their...
EL RENO, Okla. (AP) — A woman has been charged with four counts of second-degree murder for a wrong-way crash that killed a family of four in October in central Oklahoma. Charges were filed Thursday against 33-year-old Ashley Louise Ricks, of Moore, according to court records. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol alleges that Ricks was going the wrong way on Interstate 40 near El Reno at about 1:30 a.m. on Oct. 17 when she slammed head on into a vehicle with three adults and a girl. The car that Ricks is accused of hitting went into the center median a...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge ruled in favor of a police union that sued the Norman City Council for cutting the police budget amid calls from protesters to "defund the police" after the May death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Carter County Associate District Judge Thomas K. Baldwin ruled Thursday that the council violated the state Open Meetings Act when it voted to slash $865,000 from the police budget and reallocate the money during a June meeting. The Norman Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 122, sued the city in July. Baldwin w...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Department of Health is providing $5.8 million to continue free coronavirus testing through the end of the year. "As we enter the holiday season, we have been running an unprecedented number of COVID-19 tests for Oklahomans," state health commissioner Dr. Lance Frye said in a statement late Thursday. "We urge Oklahomans to continue to get tested, especially if you plan to travel or gather with anyone outside of your household during the holiday season," Frye said. Federal funding has been used to p...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas considers meatpacking plant workers and grocery store employees essential workers, putting them just behind health care workers and nursing home residents for coronavirus vaccines, Gov. Laura Kelly said Friday. The Democratic governor also said members of the Republican-controlled Legislature won't get any special treatment. Individual lawmakers will get vaccinated at different times, based on the risk outside of their political lives of being exposed to COVID-19 or developing serious complications once infected, s...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — States faced a deadline on Friday to place orders for the coronavirus vaccine as many reported record infections, hospitalizations and deaths, while hospitals were pushed to the breaking point — with the worst feared yet to come. The number of Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 hit an all-time high in the U.S. on Thursday at 100,667, according to the COVID Tracking Project. That figure has more than doubled over the past month, while new daily cases are averaging 210,000 and deaths are averaging 1,800 per day, acc...
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — He was born as America was recovering from the Great Depression and about to enter World War II — periods of national sacrifice his son would recall decades later in an obituary lamenting his death from COVID-19 even as many people refused to wear "a piece of cloth on their face to protect one another." After Dr. Marvin James Farr of Scott City, Kansas, died Tuesday in isolation at a nursing home, his son penned an obituary in which he noted that his father was preceded in death by more than 260,000 Americans inf...
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Southern State has dismissed coach Jeff Sims, who was coach at Garden City (Kansas) Community College in 2018 when a 19-year-old football player died of heat stroke. Athletic director Jared Bruggeman announced Sims' firing on Wednesday but did not give a reason. Sims was in his second year at Missouri Southern but the team did not play this season because of the coronavirus pandemic. They went 2-9 in his first season, ending with a three-game skid. Sims said he didn't know the reason for his firing but noted M...
BOSTON (AP) — Just like a real-life movie, the story of Buddy the Elf meeting his biological father has come to life, just in time for the holidays. Doug Henning wore a costume like the one actor Will Ferrell's character wore in "Elf" while meeting his father face to face for the first time last week at Boston's Logan Airport. He even broke into the same awkward song from the 2003 movie — sample lyrics: "I'm here, with my dad. And we never met, and he wants me to sing him a song!" "When he came out of the airport, he probably thought I was a l...
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Officials from an Alabama sheriff's department are being criticized for displaying a photo of a Christmas tree adorned with what they called "thugshots" of people who have been arrested. The Mobile County Sheriff's Office used its Facebook page to post a doctored image of a Christmas tree decorated with photos of people arrested or wanted for crimes. "We have decorated our Tree with THUGSHOTS to show how many Thugs we have taken off the streets of Mobile this year! We could not have done it without our faithful f...
PERU, Ill. (AP) — Police in Peru, Illinois, are no strangers to chases — unless what they're after hops away on two legs. Officers in the city about 95 miles (152 kilometers) southwest of Chicago were joined Wednesday afternoon by firefighters and even residents in a two-hour pursuit of a runaway wallaroo that bounded through yards and along streets and roads. Native to Australia, wallaroos are larger than wallabies and smaller than kangaroos. This bloke — named Wally — got away from his owner in LaSalle County. Fearing that the marsupial might...
MARIETTA, Pa. (AP) — Flocks of black vultures are roosting on roofs and in trees in one Pennsylvania town, causing damage to homes and property and generally harassing residents. The birds, which can have wingspans up to 5 feet (1.5 meters), are protected under federal laws, LNP reported on Thursday. Especially in the fall and winter, they roost together and prefer warm areas like dark roofs. The birds peck at the rubber on the roofs and target plastic things like porch furniture and garbage cans for destruction, the newspaper reported. A h...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Days after the discovery and swift disappearance of two shining metal monoliths half a world apart, another towering structure has popped up and then quickly vanished, this time from the pinnacle of a trail in California. After photos were posted on social media, the tall, silver metallic structure drew hikers to the top of the Pine Mountain trail in an Atascadero park, halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, KEYT-TV reported Wednesday. The 3-sided, 10-foot-tall, 200-pound monolith was similar to two others d...
