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Happy Birthday To March 16: Larry Bradt, Braydon Bliss March 17: Jay Rankin, Kamron Hensley March 18: Michael Horntvedt, Leah Darr, Travis Walker, Even Burkhart, Julie Isenbart, Sandy Pierce March 19: Randy McMurphy March 20: Corby Bradt, Leslie French March 21: Pat Thompson, Dale Rader, Sherry Stansberry, Lana Burkhart March 22: Brianna Louthan, Bruce Stansberry, Karen Kurz March 23: Arly Eden, Hilda Craig March 24: Jena Daughhetee, Kale Pierce, Channing Joy Ferguson March 25: Dawn Schwartz, Mabelle Schroeder, Jariah Fisher March 26: Roger...
The Northwest Oklahoma Complex wildfires, composed of four fire areas in Beaver, Harper and Woodward counties, is now considered to be 74 percent contained, according to the Oklahoma Forestry Service. The fires began on Monday, March 6. The Selman Fire (Harper and Woodward Counties) is the area closest to Freedom. It is about ten miles from Woodward. That fire area covered 47,289 acres. The Starbuck Fire (Beaver and Harper Counties) is the largest fire area in northwest Oklahoma including 662,687 acres total with 464,308 acres in Kansas and...
All Freedom alumni are asked to meet March 19 at 3 p.m. at the Freedom School. Anyone graduating in the a year ending in 7 (’57, ’67, ’77, ’87, ’97, ’07) is asked to come to the meeting to plan the Alumni Banquet to be held April 15. The Freedom Alumni Banquet will be held Saturday, April 15, at 6 p.m. at the American Legion Building in downtown Freedom....
Sunday, March 12, was the second Sunday of Lent. The order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Opening Prayer given by Pastor Woody Hamon Call to Worship Psalm 48:1-14 led by Debbie Brown Opening Hymn “It is Well With My Soul” Affirmation of Faith led by Dixie Stansberry Hymn of Justifying Grace “Freely,Freely” Offertory by Janell Reutlinger Offertory prayer given by Pastor Woody Children’s Moments We need to continue to pray for those on our prayer list. We especially need to keep in prayer th...
March 13-17: Spring break, no school Saturday. April 1: Junior-Senior Prom Friday, April 7: Snow day, no school Wednesday, April 12: 3:30 p.m. 4-H meeting Wednesday, April 12: 8 a.m. to noon, 8th grade to tour Northwest Technology Center, Alva Thursday, April 13: High school track meet at Laverne Friday, April 14: Good Friday, no school Saturday, April 15: 6 p.m. Freedom Alumni Banquet at American Legion Building...
Freedom school district residents will have to wait awhile to decide officially who will sit in seat number 2. Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed an order March 7 to hold the special school election on September 12. Following the Feb. 14 election, District Judge Justin Eilers determined that the number of ineligible voters exceeded the margin of victory. A hearing was held in the Woods County Courthouse in Alva on Feb. 22 after one of the candidates, Shane Morris, filed a protest. Unofficial election returns showed his opponent, Raul...
Before the latest wildfire broke out last week, the Freedom Town Board had scheduled an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss trash pickup rates. The meeting was canceled because of the fires, so the topic was added as a regular agenda item for the Wednesday, May 8, meeting. Last month, the city signed a new agreement with Harper Sanitation to pick up Freedom's trash. After the first bill came in, $1,000 more than the previous month, the council decided they'd better take a look at raising rates. Clerk Cindy Reed said, “On some containers u...
Brad and Michelle Moore of Anthony, Kansas, would like to announce the engagement of their daughter Heather René Moore to Lucas Cole Russell. Lucas is the son of Tom and Julie Russell of Freedom, Oklahoma. Heather is a graduate of Chaparral High School and is studying early childhood education at Northwestern Oklahoma State University as well as teaching pre-school at Blessed Beginnings and working at Jett's Department Store in Anthony, Kansas. Heather is the granddaughter of Kathleen Garner...
OKLAHOMA CITY — OG&E is gearing up for severe storm season 2017 with plans to use drones and advanced planning to expedite storm assessment and restoration times. “We used drones for the first time to assess damage in the Woodward area following Winter Storm Jupiter in January,” said Kathleen O’Shea, OG&E spokeswoman. “In the past, we’ve used helicopters, and we’ll still use them as necessary, however, drones can be deployed faster than helicopters in most scenarios. We estimate that we shaved off approximately a half day of assessment time by...
General Fund POs Dacoma Co-op (fuel and equipment maintenance and supplies) – $280.47 Dacoma Co-op (fuel and equipment maintenance and supplies) – $441.59 Alfalfa Electric Cooperative (streetlights, af/a, town) – $1,075.06 John Deere Financial (Atwoods) (supplies) – $263.92 SPC (office supplies) – $863.92 Starr Lumber – $67.19 Woods County Election Board (election official compensation) – $578.05 UTS (supplies) – $1,080 Fire Department POs Shelly Oliphant (reimbursement) – $48.55 OK Firefighters Pension System (2017) – $1,140 Ambulance PO...
Last month the ladies of Freedom Christian Church attended a women's conference that challenged the participants to explore their purpose to serve and how to serve that purpose. Sue Mitchell, who attended the conference, found it inspirational. "I thought that it was informative, inspiring, and truly uplifting," Mitchell said. Taylor (DeVine) Phillips was the speaker for this one day event held at The Extreme in Alva. Ladies young and old attended. Participants were engaged in worship,...
The Woods County Mineral Owners Association invites all area mineral and land owners to attend the March 30 meeting of the Woods County Mineral Owners Association at 6 p.m. at the Northwest Technology Center, 1801 S 11th St. in Alva. The guest speaker for the evening will be David Sikes, VP-director of operation with Jeroco, Inc. based in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Mr. Sikes will present a program entitled “Mineral Math.” A short business meeting will follow his presentation. You are encouraged to attend this informative meeting and to invite oth...
ORLANDO, Fla – Oklahoma Baptist completely blanked Millersville – losing no games – in a 9-0 shutout Wednesday. Kevin Andrusch, Lucas Castelo Branco, Luis Romero, Thomas Ackerknecht, Matias Le Fort and Gianluca Galdi all posted 6-0, 6-0 wins in singles. Ackerknecht and Romero, Galdi and Castelo Branco and Andrusch and Babji Atturu also posted perfect 8-0 doubles wins. The victory improved OBU's record to 9-3. The Bison return home on an eight-match win streak and face Northwest Missouri State in Shawnee Monday....
ORLANDO, Fla – Oklahoma Baptist capped its stay in Florida with a 9-0 win over Millersville, losing just two games along the way. Olivia Charvat, Kim Moosbacher, Madeleine Boepple, Alex Bowers and Alex Morales all scored 6-0, 6-0 singles wins. Rouxanne Janse van Rensburg and Moosbacher pitched an 8-0 shutout in No. 1 doubles, as did Charvat and Boepple in No. 2 doubles. Now 13-1 on the season, the Lady Bison put their 12-match win streak to the test Monday at 1 p.m. in Shawnee against Northwest Missouri State....
CLARKSVILLE, Ark. – Oklahoma Baptist continued its three-stop tour of Arkansas with a sweep of University of the Ozarks Wednesday, 13-3 and 7-5. OBU had 28 hits for the doubleheader, getting 15 in the second game while leaving 10 runners stranded. In the opener, OBU scored four runs in the first inning on an illegal pitch, a wild pitch and RBI singles by Bailee Saye and Bry Flanagan. OBU added four more in the third on four errors and three hits, including an RBI single by Jill Shipman, who later stole home. Katie Reyes singled in a run in t...
BETHANY, Okla. — Southern Nazarene downed Rogers State 5-4 in extra-innings with a walk-off double from Kriston Shumaker in the opener. Rogers State took the second game, using the help of three home runs to beat the Storm 18-11 Wednesday afternoon. The Crimson Storm grabbed an early lead in the first as a Mahina Sauer double drove home the first run of the game for SNU, scoring Sam Smith. Southern Nazarene struck again in the third. Sauer got a two-out single to center and later scored after Hannah LeBeau hit a two-run homerun to give SNU a 3...
EDMOND, Okla. (March 15, 2017) – A big seventh inning gave Oklahoma Christian hope on Wednesday afternoon at Central Oklahoma, but UCO scratched out a run in the eighth to edge the Eagles 5-4 at Wendell Simmons Field. OC (13-11) managed only six hits – none for extra bases, thanks to a couple of stellar defensive plays – against UCO (15-5-1) as the Bronchos completed a season sweep of their cross-Edmond rival. "We've just got to figure out a way to get a hit with people on base with two outs," OC coach Lonny Cobble said. "I don't know how o...
OKLAHOMA CITY (March 15, 2017) – Sprinter Elijah Sherrill and high jumper Justin Stewart gave Oklahoma Christian a sweep of the initial Great American Conference men's outdoor track and field weekly awards for the 2017 season, which were announced Wednesday. The OC duo was honored for performances last Thursday in the Oklahoma Baptist Early Outdoor Invitational in Shawnee. Sherrill, a sophomore from Mansfield, Texas, recorded personal-best times in the 100 meters (10.62 seconds) and 200 meters (21.48 seconds) at the meet, winning the 100 and f...
