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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 Alva Review-Courier will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper. Felony Filings Brandie Best, no age or location, has been...
Real Estate Transfers Book 823 page 789: Max Choate and Wanda Choate, husband and wife, grantors, convey unto Mike Jones and Shiella Jones, husband and wife, grantees: lot 8 of block 31 int the Original Town of Helena, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Warranty deed. Book 823 page 795: Marjorie Vansickle, a single woman, grantor, conveys unto Majorie Vansickle, trustee of Majorie Vansickle Revocable Trust, grantee: lots 3, 4 and 5 of block 3 in the Town of Manchester, Grant County, Oklahoma; northeast quarter of section 27, township 29 north, range 8,...
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 2:43 p.m. Deputy had a traffic stop at Coal Road and County Road 550. 3:56 p.m. Cattle out on Latimer Road. 3:58 p.m. Vehicle accident with injury on State Highway 11 east of Burlington. Paged medic and Burlington Fire Department. Air-evac needed. Air-evec transported one patient to OU Hospital in Oklahoma City. Medic transported another patient to Share Medical center in Alva. 7:41 p.m. Officer had a traffic stop north of Cherokee. 8:18 p.m. Grant County called about cattle out. 9:30 p.m. Deputy had a traffic stop at...
Book 143 page 256: Brandon T. Farney and Marianna L. Farney, husband and wife, grantors, convey unto John Richard Buckle and Rebecca Susan Buckle, husband and wife, grantees: lots 4, 5 and 6 in block 174 in the Town Company’s addition to the city of Kiowa. Joint tenancy warrant deed. Book 143 page 265: Michael A. Platt and Lori Platt, husband and wife, convey unto Big Foot LLC: the east half of section 35, township 34 south, range 11 west of the 6th P.M. Barber County, Kansas. General warranty deed. Book 143 page 269: John D. Platt and C...
April 2, 2018 Medicine Lodge ambulance transported patient from Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital to Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita. Deputy Woods investigated damage to property at the Christian Church in Kiowa. April 3, 2018 Medicine Lodge ambulance transported patient from northwest U.S. Highway 281 to Medicine Memorial Hospital. Deputy Woods investigated a traffic hazard on U.S. Highway 281 north of Medicine Lodge. Elwood Fire Department responded a fire east of Hardtner on U.S. Highway 281 north of Medicine Lodge. Deputy Woods...
Alva Police Chief Ben Orcutt held the first “Coffee with the Chief” this Tuesday morning at 7 a.m. in the City Council Chambers. This was the “first of many,” Chief Orcutt said. Every second Tuesday of the month the chief and Assistant Chief Patrick Hawley will host an outreach forum with the Alva community. All are invited to attend and discuss police/community issues with the chief. The Cops and Kids program is progressing well with four events being planned per year. The first event will be Pack the Park on June 9. “Get the kids out of th...
Donya Swayden, 34, Medicine Lodge, Kansas, is charged with three counts of embezzlement from the U.S. Postal Service and three counts of making false entries in postal records. The crimes are alleged to have occurred in 2017 in Pratt County, Kansas. The indictment alleges she issued three postal orders to customers who did not pay for them. If convicted, she faces up to five years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000. The U.S....
The Alfalfa County Board of Commissioners met Monday morning for their regular meeting. All commissioners were present, as well as Nancy Lambert, Shana Smallwood-Buchanan and Laneta Unruh. After the call to order, Lambert gave the invocation and the flag was saluted. Commissioners approved the minutes from the previous meeting, the M & O warrants for payment, and the blanket purchase orders. One road crossing permit was approved for District 1. The monthly officer reports were received and approved by the board. Appropriations for the election...
A Burlington High School student is charged with two misdemeanors alleging assault and battery and hazing of a minor student. Deacon Tate Burleson, 18, of Burlington was charged April 2 in Alfalfa County. Burleson is charged with willfully and unlawfully committing an assault and battery upon a minor male by then and there holding the minor down, hitting and poking the minor with a drum stick with force and violence. This crime is punishable by imprisonment up to 90 days or a fine up to $1,000,...
(A portion of an article by Paula Span of the New York Times.) Sue Ellen King had circled her retirement date on the calendar: March 8, 2015. She had worked as a critical care nurse and nursing educator at University of Florida Health (UF Health) in Jacksonville, Florida, for 38 years; co-workers joked that she was there when the hospital's foundation was laid, which happened to be true. So the send-offs went on for days – parties in the units where she had worked, a dinner in her honor, g...
Superintendent Steve Parkhurst told the Alva School Board Monday night that because the Alva district is "off the state formula," the general fund will have to supply $820,000 to fund the pay increases voted by the State Legislature two weeks ago. Alva, like most northwest Oklahoma school districts, receives more funds from county tax collections than the average school district in the state because the local assessor has lots of expensive oilfield equipment to assess. Two-thirds the districts...
Two of the Woods County commissioners, John Smiley and David Hamil, said at the Monday county commissioner meeting they plan on running for re-election. Later, an inquiry to County Assessor Renetta Benson and County Treasurer David Manning revealed that they also plan to run for their offices again. The filing period is Wednesday, April 11, through Friday, April 13, at the county election board office in the Professional Building on Fourth Street in Alva. In all Oklahoma counties, the county assessor, country treasurer and districts 1 and 3...
Superintendent James Miller told the Freedom Board of Education that the pay raises for teachers and support personnel will impact the general fund of the school district by about $105,000 next year. He said the district carryover will be $830,000 so there will be no short-term problems meeting this. He did say that he met with the entire staff and explained the need to save on whatever possible. Miller said the State Legislature is in full swing and praised both Rep. Newton and Sen. Murdock for their willingness to listen and take his calls....
Woods County author Dr. Sheldon Russell was given the Oklahoma Book Award for fiction at the Oklahoma Center for the Book award ceremony in Oklahoma City on April 7. The award is for his most recent novel, “The Bridge Troll Murders. This is Dr. Russell's second Oklahoma Book Award. The first was given for his historical fiction “Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush” in 2007....
Superintendent Donna Anderson discussed the teacher walkout and pay raise events of the past three weeks with the Cherokee Board of Education Monday night. “I've been asked when I think this walkout will be over, and I don't have the answer to that,” she said. “I'm not sure where the line is – where no more will be done, and where more needs to be done, so more funds go to our kids in the classroom. It is a historic time in Oklahoma,” she said. The superintendent said because the Cherokee School District is not on the school funding formula b...
Thousands of teachers flooded the Capitol last week, filling our halls and our offices as they lobbied for more education funding. As hectic as it was, I really enjoyed the conversations I had with teachers both inside and outside of House District 58. Civil engagement is a worthy cause. Talking to your representative helps us be better lawmakers. And though I wish we were all rallying in celebration, I am thankful for the opportunity to discuss possible solutions with so many educators on the front lines for education. It has been very...
As a Kansas town bordering Oklahoma, Kiowa was one of the starting points of the Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893. Like other border towns, Kiowa had days of celebrations for the centennial in 1993. It’s hard to fathom that another 25 years has passed and 2018 marks the 125th Anniversary of the Land Run. On Sept. 16, 1893, some 100,000 people raced to claim six million acres of land in former Indian Territory in Oklahoma. On that very first day historians report that 40,000 homesteads were claimed. The New York Times had billed the Land Run o...
Let's just say that my sister, Jennifer Schubert-Akin, is determined, pursues and achieves excellence in most all that she does. For example, she's a 1975 graduate of Burlington High School where she was valedictorian, at OU was outstanding senior of fine arts, is co-founder and CEO of the Steamboat Institute that celebrates its 10th Anniversary this year, and has been married to Rick for 37 years this May. It didn't surprise me that while running her 23rd consecutive Boston Marathon last April...
Vice President Mark Pollock called the April meeting of the South Barber School Board to order in the absence of president of the board Steve Allen. Deb Helfrich was also absent. All other members attended including: Mike Miller, Melissa Simpson, Bryan Quick and Mariah Doherty. Superintendent Dr. Andi Williams also sat at the board table as did Board Clerk Julie Johnson. The board approved numerous personnel changes: • Vocal teacher Naicee Gugelmeyer is the new high school cheerleading sponsor. She replaces Melissa Rector and Shawna S...
An Alva woman died Tuesday from injuries received when a stock trailer backed over her. Mamie Ellen Hada, 62, was taken to Share Medical Center by Alva EMS where she was pronounced dead from arm, leg, trunk internal and trunk external injuries. The accident occurred at approximately 8 a.m. Tuesday on LeFlore Road, 100 feet west of County Road 370. The location is approximately six miles west and eight miles north of Alva. Allen Neil Hada, 67, of Alva was driving a 2001 Chevrolet pickup pulling a stock trailer. They were loading cattle when a...
