Three new teachers and two new counselors were approved by the Alva Board of Education Monday. Kayla Ledbetter comes from the Tulsa Public Schools and will teach pre-K. Sadie Wilson has lived in Texas the past three years but came back to Oklahoma and will teach pre-K. Annalisa Roggow has been a substitute with the Alva schools and will now teach fifth grade.

Tina Pettus is one of the new counselors. Superintendent Tim Argo said she had been in prison the past 20 years, then backtracked and said she worked at the prison and the school is stealing her away. Pettus will work at the high school a...