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Alva Church of God Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. Alva Church of God is located at 517 Ninth St. in Alva, and can be found on the web at www.AlvaChurchOfGod.org. Alva Friends Church Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m.; coffee and donut fellowship at 10:10 a.m.; worship at 10:30 a.m. Alva Friends Church is on the corner of College Avenue and Center Street. Avard Christian Church Sunday services are from 2-4 p.m. Avard Christian Church is 7 miles west of Alva on Highway 64 and 7 miles south on County Road 370, or 6...
Since the schools are out for spring break this week, I’ve been thinking about all the places our friends, family and students might be. The Northwestern News included a few candid shots of students along with their travel plans for the week. Of course, for many of us, there is no such thing as spring break. Our jobs and responsibilities continue as always, but we can at least imagine “all the places we’ll go.” In the Tyree family, the talk almost always centers on a journey to the coast of Texas. Becky and I enjoyed a year of ministry in the...
Funeral services for Earl Edward Barton will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, March 22, 2019, at the Driftwood Christian Church with Pastor Rod Rieger officiating. Interment will be in the Byron-Amorita Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Earl Edward Barton, son of the late Edward Earl and Cathrine (Powell) Barton, was born December 15, 1938, in Ingersoll, Oklahoma, and passed away March 19, 2019, at Alva, Oklahoma, at the age of 80 years, 3 months and 14 days. Earl attended...
Naomi Welty, 83-year-old Shattuck resident, passed away Monday, March 18, 2019, at her home south of Shattuck. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, March 22, 2019, at the First United Methodist Church of Shattuck with Reverend Janet Fitz officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of the Billings Funeral Home, Woodward. Naomi Maxine (Cotter) Welty was born on May 13, 1935, in Freedom, Oklahoma to Bruce and Ethel Iris (Romig) Cotter. She grew up in Farry, Oklahoma, and...
Ruth R. McCracken was born April 25, 1921, to David and Mable (Miller) Clark in Illinois and passed away Monday, March 18, 2019, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She married Elmer McCracken, and they raised five children. She was a good farm wife and mother. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, four brothers, four sisters and two daughters: Nancy McCracken and Merrily Drake. Survivors include two sons: Bill McCracken and wife Lela, and Mike McCracken and wife Opal; daughter Edith Hada and husband Floyd; son-in-law John Drake and wife...
"I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space." – Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2 This quote gave Stephen Hawking the title for his 2001 book "The Universe in a Nutshell." Chapers 1 and 2 are a discussion of general relativity and quantum theory far above my comprehension but Chapter 3 is Hawking's attempt to describe the universe in layman's terms. As a retired earth science teacher, it wasn't difficult to explain the universe as never ending but it was d...
The three men who won presidential elections in the 1920s – Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover – were political conservatives. Coolidge and Hoover were also conservative in their personal lives, but Harding was not. Harding had at least two mistresses when he was president although he was married, albeit unhappily. He and one of his paramours often had romantic encounters in a White House closet, and he was reportedly the father of her daughter. Moreover, although pro...
TOPEKA, Kan. – Preston Ewing led the Northwestern Oklahoma State University to a Top 5 finish Tuesday at the Washburn Invitational at the Topeka Country Club in Topeka, Kansas. Entering Tuesday’s final round in seventh after posting scores of 75 and 73 on Monday, Ewing fired a 69 to move up four spots on the leaderboard to finish tied for third place, one shot out of second place, to start the spring season strong. Ewing was one of four golfers to fire a tournament-low round of 69, which also tied him for the fourth lowest round in NWOSU pro...
ALVA, Okla. – With rain in the forecast for the weekend in Northwest Oklahoma, the Northwestern Oklahoma State University softball series against visiting Ouachita Baptist has been altered, program officials announced Thursday morning. Today’s (Friday) games at the Ranger Softball Field at the Alva Rec Complex have been moved up by two hours with first pitch of the doubleheader now set for 1 p.m. On Saturday, the doubleheader has been pushed back two hours with a 1 p.m. start time as well. Game two of each date will begin approximately 30 min...
ALVA, Okla. – The Northwestern Oklahoma State University Rangers softball team took two tough losses to Cameron University late Monday afternoon. Only four Rangers totaled two or more hits on the day. Freshman Kalie Johnson had a day at the plate with three hits and an RBI, going 2-for-4 in the first game. Alexa Moses went 2-for-2 in the second game of the doubleheader, scoring the game’s only run from the Rangers. Abby Detar (2), and Lindsey McElroy (2) were the only other two Rangers to get more than one hit, with Lindsey getting a dou...
ALVA, Okla. – The Northwestern Oklahoma State University Rangers softball team had a tough day in Wichita Falls, Texas, against Midwestern State University Tuesday afternoon. The Rangers were only able to tally a total of four hits on the day, with all four hits going to four different freshman players. Kalie Johnson’s double was the only hit in the first game, saving her team from having a no-hitter thrown against them. Morgan Kirk, who was hit by a pitch twice, and Ashlie Green (walked) were the only other baserunners during the game. Cad...
Marshall's Old Timers: 66 ½ wins, 37 ½ losses Rollin Good Time: 62 ½ wins, 41 ½ losses Schuesslers: 62 wins, 42 losses Pony Boys: 61 wins, 43 losses Ten Pin Oil Men: 52 ½ wins, 51 ½ losses O-Bar: 51 wins, 53 losses Knights of Columbus: 50 ½ wins, 53 ½ losses Men/Individual High Scratch Game: John Cook – 240 High Scratch Series: Randy Novotny – 639 High Hdcp Game: Doug Ruess – 283 High Hdcp Series: Doug Ruess – 778 Women/Individual High Scratch Game: Glenda Lewis – 186 High Scratch Series: Kayanna Williams – 520 High Hdcp Game: Glenda Lewis...
ALVA, Okla. – The Northwestern Oklahoma State University offense exploded for nine runs in the first three innings Tuesday afternoon as the Rangers sent away Newman (Kansas) with a 11-5 loss at Glass Family Field at Myers Stadium. Northwestern (13-11) will make up a game Wednesday afternoon against Oklahoma Panhandle State. The game was originally scheduled to take place last week, but was postponed due to weather. With the Tuesday afternoon win over the Jets, the Rangers snapped a five-game los...
ALVA, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State University baseball unloaded for 11 runs in the first two innings Wednesday afternoon as the Rangers had no problem wrangling the Aggies of Oklahoma Panhandle State in a 14-4 victory in a seven inning run-rule victory. Northwestern improved its record to 14-11 this season with the win at Glass Family Field at Myers Stadium, their eighth of the season. The Rangers look to get on track in Great American Conference play with a road trip this weekend at Ouac... Full story
Frontline – a music group and worship team from Ozark Christian College (OCC) – will be at Town and Country Christian Church April 5–7. Frontline is an auditioned team of OCC students who lead worship at the school and other venues. The group has written worship music as well, which can be heard on Spotify or by visiting occ.edu/arts/frontline (click on Resources). The group will be at Town & Country Christian Church in Alva at 6 p.m. on Friday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, and from...
Jacqueline Ruhl, senior political science major at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, has been named a 2019 Campus Compact Newman Civic Fellow. Campus Compact is a Boston-based non-profit organization working to advance the public purposes of higher education. The organization's 2019 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows is comprised of 262 students, including Ruhl. "It's an honor to be named a 2019 Newman Civic Fellow," Ruhl said. "I am looking forward to what this experience has to offer and dis...
Auditioning on ABC's American Idol Monday night, Jakob O'Brien from Alva performed an original song he wrote about America. "I wrote it because I love my country," O'Brien said before his performance. Even though he didn't make it to Hollywood, he got his guitar signed by Luke Bryan. "You just keep writing songs that you believe in. Keep them coming from the heart. I don't know if we got a spot that will put you in a situation where you are going to really compete and finish high on American...
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. (AP) — Three indigent criminal defendants in a northeast Oklahoma county are suing three judges there alleging poor people are being unconstitutionally imprisoned because they can't afford to pay court-ordered fees and fines. Also named as a defendant in the lawsuit filed Thursday in Washington County is the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System. The suit alleges that the state agency incentivizes its attorneys to close cases quickly, even if it means forfeiting the rights of their clients. Washington County District Attorney K...
LANGSTSON, Okla. (AP) — Langston University is to receive six grants totaling $1.8 million for agriculture-related research projects. Republican U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas on Wednesday announced the grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The grants include helping the university establish a large animal testing center, improve goat management and education studies, improve undergraduate programs in biotechnology and horticulture and research the effects of brackish/saline water in goats, sheep and cattle. The grants are provided through t...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Environmental Protection Agency report shows mushroom compost has been extracting contaminants from the heavily polluted Tar Creek Superfund Site in northeastern Oklahoma for a decade. Tar Creek is a 40-square-mile (103-square-kilometer) former mine and one of the nation's oldest, most complex Superfund sites. Superfund is a law that funds and authorizes EPA cleanup of contaminated sites. The Tulsa World reports that the site in Ottawa County has a passive treatment system that uses layers of mushroom compost to remove a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the murder conviction and life without parole sentence of a Chandler man in the death of his estranged wife. The court on Thursday rejected appeals by 61-year-old Kurt Meyer that included alleged prosecutorial misconduct, improper statements by the prosecutor and illegal seizure of his cellphones that were used as evidence against him. Meyer was convicted in the 2014 strangulation death of Kathleen Wilkins-Meyer in Chandler. Wilkins-Meyer was found dead Nov. 14, 2014, in a...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's top economic development official might have trouble keeping his job after a committee recommended Thursday that the Kansas Senate reject his appointment. A two-day Senate Commerce Committee confirmation hearing for Acting Commerce Secretary David Toland turned bitter and partisan as some Republicans questioned his credentials and criticized him over social media posts and comments he made during a Statehouse rally last year. Toland, from Iola, served as the unpaid treasurer for Kelly's s...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A modified version of Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's plan for expanding Medicaid in Kansas has cleared the House with bipartisan support. The House's 69-54 vote Thursday sends an expansion bill to the Senate. Its future there is uncertain. Republican legislative leaders oppose Medicaid expansion. They argue that it will be expensive for the state despite the federal government's promise to cover 90 percent of the cost of Medicaid health coverage for up to 150,000 additional Kansas residents. But 28 of the House's 84 R...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas county commission honored a sheriff's deputy who was killed in the line of duty last year as a hero and announced his family will receive $300,000 in a worker's compensation settlement. The Sedgwick County Commission approved settlement payouts to Deputy Robert Kunze's widow and young daughter on Wednesday, the Wichita Eagle reported. Kunze was fatally shot on Sept. 16 while attempting to handcuff a man on suspicion of vehicle theft about 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of downtown Wichita. The suspect, 2...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas businesses are asking state lawmakers for big increases in higher education funding. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that a group of more than 30 business representatives and advocates asked lawmakers to provide the $50 million increase to state universities that the Kansas Board of Regents requested. Regents say the lawmakers allocated $588 million to state universities this year. The vice president for human resources at the tech company Garmin in Olathe said businesses need skilled workers to be competitive. L...
