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Tuesday, April 28, 2020 12:10 a.m. – Garfield County advised they were going to be doing a search and they needed a list of all stolen things in our county. 1:33 p.m. – Medic was needed for a male with numbness who recently had heart surgery. Medic took the patient to Bass Hospital in Enid. 4:18 p.m. – Caller stated the mayor of Helena came into his house and stated someone turned in an unemployment claim in his name against the Town of Helena. He advised also his ex-daughter-in-law was on it also. Report was taken. 6:19 p.m. – Caller advised...
April 20, 2020 Medicine Lodge Police Department and Barber County Sheriff’s Office (MLPD and BASO) responded to a domestic disturbance on Central Avenue. BASO investigated a report of theft in Hardtner. MLPD investigated a report of suspicious activity on Kansas Avenue. BASO responded to an animal call on River Road. BASO responded to a report of cattle out on US-281. MLPD responded to a request to speak to an officer on W. Kansas Avenue. BASO investigated a report of a child in need of care in Sharon. BASO and MLPD responded to a domestic d...
Voters in Alfalfa County who want to have absentee ballots mailed to them for the June 30 Primary Election and Special County Election need to apply now, County Election Board Secretary Kelly Stein said today. There are also three Board of Education General Elections for the Timberlake I-93, Medford I-54 and the Ringwood I-01 school districts. Only voters who are in the geographical boundaries of these school districts will be eligible to vote on these particular elections. Although the county election board can accept applications for...
We have more pictures from the April Showers Parade Thursday evening for the residents of Beadles Nursing Home....
Jay Hague, Stan Tucker and Marvin Woodall met Monday morning, starting with the usual items of business: last week's meeting minutes, maintenance and operation payment warrants, and blanket purchase orders. Those were all approved, along with monthly officer reports, appropriations, and alcohol beverage tax allocations. There were no road-crossing permits for the week. The three men moved on to the now-regular agenda item: discussion on COVID-19. They decided to hold a special meeting at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 15, to talk about the next phase...
The Alva Board of Education meeting was accompanied by the hum of fans Monday afternoon. Board members gathered in the high school library for social distancing but the room was lacking air conditioning. All board members were present. During the meeting, the board voted unanimously to hire a new high school principal and a new Lincoln Elementary principal, filling vacancies left by resignations. Cory Smith will be the new high school principal. Superintendent Tim Argo told the board that Smith...
The Burlington Class of 2020 plans their graduation for Friday, May 22, at 7 p.m. For the first time in anyone's memory, the BHS commencement will be held outside on a grass lawn north of the school. This change is due to the COVID-19 pandemic that's ravaged America the last few months and continues to cause shutdowns of schools, businesses and much more. The purpose has been to flatten the curve of the contagious virus. Social distancing has accomplished much to flatten the curve and this week some states are starting to slowly open up some...
In this unprecedented time with the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans' way of life as we know it has been drastically different the past two months. One of the biggest changes is that school buildings are closed in the nationwide effort to stop spread of the contagious virus. Students are learning from home as they connect with their teachers online. This causes new challenges for parents. Will and Jenna Mostert have two young children: Adriaan, age 4, and Piper, age 1. Jenna is a member of the South Barber Board of Education. When asked about...
That ugly COVID-19 pandemic keeps rearing its ugly head. This time it's messing with the Nescatunga Arts Festival. The headline says the festival is postponed until Aug. 8. You're thinking – an outdoor festival in August – no way! Everyone will have a heat stroke. Nescatunga President Charla Parker said the festival will be in downtown Alva, but in various air-conditioned buildings. The quilt show will be in the Woods County Courthouse lobby as usual. The committee is working out the logistics now, but the Runnymede and Act I buildings will be...
This coming Saturday, May 9, at 2 p.m., South Barber High School in Kiowa, Kansas, will set school history with a non-traditional graduation. This is a culmination of a year that has wrecked the traditional spring semester of the Class of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic that has essentially closed down the U.S. economy and life as Americans know it for the last two and a half months. School buildings across the nation were closed in an effort to stop spread of the highly contagious virus....
One definition found for the word community is "a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common." Another definition is "a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests and goals." These words have never been as important as they are right now in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sunday evening, May 3, the members of the South Barber FFA chapter completed a few subtle tasks around Kiowa in an effort to show appr...
The Woods County Economic Development Committee (WCEDC) still hasn’t made a public decision on hiring an executive director. During a special meeting Monday noon at the Northwest Technology Center in Alva, the WCEDC came out of executive session and immediately tabled any action on hiring someone for the position. Present for the meeting were committee members Allan Poe, Susan Bradford, Jeremy Eaton, Randy McMurphy, Dr. Bo Hannaford and Matt Tucker. Dr. Kay Decker was absent. Sonja Williams, who resigned as executive director, handled the m...
Dennis Clell Pierson (affectionately known as D'dad), age 81 of Irving, Texas, passed away on April 29, 2020, in Denton, Texas. A private graveside service was held on Monday, May 4, 2020, at Cherokee Municipal Cemetery with Pastor Bryan Laramore of the First Baptist Church officiating under the direction of Lanman Funeral Home Inc. in Cherokee, Oklahoma. Dennis was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to Lee Clell and Theone Pierson on October 30, 1938. He graduated from Pawhuska High School in 1958,...
Graveside services for Elsie Maltby were held at 2 p.m. Monday, April 20, 2020, at the Carmen City Cemetery with Rev. Cody Stinnett officiating. The service was livestreamed on the Marshall Funeral Home Facebook page. Arrangements were under the direction of Wentworth Mortuary LLC. Elsie Jane (Cheney) Maltby, daughter of the late George Albert and Viola Ann (Kendall) Cheney, was born January 15, 1942, at Manchester, Oklahoma, and passed away April 15, 2020, at Enid, Oklahoma, at the age of 78...
Viewing for Larry Lee Lyon will be Wednesday, May 6, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Marshall Funeral Home in Alva. Cremation will follow and a graveside service for the family will be held at Memorial Hill Cemetery Monday, May 11, 2020. Larry Lee Lyon was born on December 1, 1940, to Harley Lowell Lyon and Gertrude Marguerite Cox Lyon in Alva, Oklahoma. He grew up with siblings Ronnie, Phil, Karen, Sue, David and Benny. Larry was directed into God's Kingdom on Saturday, May 2, 2020, following a...
One of the first things the Legislature will tackle when it returns to session May 4 is the budget for Fiscal Year 2021. When the state Board of Equalization met in February, it certified $8.244 billion for the Legislature to appropriate for FY21. Because of the effects of COVID-19 with many businesses closed temporarily and the subsequent loss of taxes combined with the plummeting price of oil and gas, that figure has since been reduced to $6.878 billion. That is a $1.366 billion, or 16.6%, cut. As the chair of the House Appropriations &...
On Sunday the Alva Public Schools ran a brief legal notice stating they’re taking bids on school pictures for next year. Specifications may be picked up at the administration office at 418 Flynn. The notice was in the Alva Review-Courier. I’m not sure how many years my husband was the school photographer, but it was approaching 50. Before that, the schools used one of the large school photography businesses active in the state. It took a lot of lobbying on Lynn’s part to convince the school board and administration to open school pictu...
If you’ve yet to complete your census, I’d like to once again urge you to do so as soon as possible. Although we’ve seen improvement in recent weeks, Oklahoma is still behind the national response rate average. As of May 1, the national average was 54.6 percent. Oklahoma’s response rate was 49 percent, which ranks 41st in the nation. Across the district, Garfield County’s response was 55.8 percent; Kay’s was 54 percent; Grant’s was 39.1 percent; and Alfalfa’s was 36.5 percent. Notable cities inc...
At least in one sense it's been an ideal offseason for Drew Lock. Broncos GM John Elway declared the second-year passer his established starter. Then, he went out and added old hands and fast feet in the kind of offensive makeover quarterbacks ordinarily can only dream about. "I'm super pumped about the guys we've added," Lock said Tuesday in a Zoom call from his parents' home in Lee's Summit, Missouri, where he's been staying and training during the coronavirus pandemic. Elway's two biggest free agent acquisitions were running back Melvin...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Restaurant dining rooms, retail stores and some offices began reopening Monday after Kansas lifted a statewide stay-at-home order, though some business owners hesitated, still concerned about the novel coronavirus. Gov. Laura Kelly plans to reopen the pandemic-battered economy in four stages between now an at least June 15. The first stage began when her stay-at-home order expired at midnight Sunday, allowing dine-in service in restaurants and the reopening of stores, though social distancing still must be observed. But s...
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — The attorneys general for 11 Midwestern states urged the Justice Department on Tuesday to pursue a federal investigation into market concentration and potential price fixing by meatpackers in the cattle industry during the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr, the state attorneys general noted that the domestic beef processing market is highly concentrated, with the four largest beef processors controlling 80 percent of the industry. "Given the concentrated market structure of the b...
PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. (AP) — Suburban Kansas City police responding to a welfare check Tuesday found a 19-year-old man dead with a gunshot wound, a shooting authority said they are investigating as a homicide. Prairie Village officers found Kiven Maquial of Mission, Kansas, at 6:18 a.m. lying on the ground, the police department said in a news release. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The ongoing investigation is being conducted by local police as well as the Johnson County crime lab and medical examiner....
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man who died in a shootout in which he killed a police officer was struggling with drug and alcohol addiction and had become increasingly threatening while awaiting trial on burglary and assault charges, according to a prosecutor and a relative of the man who were trying to have him kept in jail. Phillip Michael Carney, 38, died Sunday after a shootout with Overland Park Officer Mike Mosher, who was gunned down after stopping Carney's vehicle after an apparent hit-and-run in the Kansas City suburb, authorities s...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A suspect in the April shooting death of an 18-year-old Wichita woman told a friend he chased down the car the woman was in and "unloaded" a semi-automatic rifle on the car following a fight at a local trailer park, according to the friend's testimony in court records. Police detailed the statement in an arrest affidavit, the Wichita Eagle reported. The statement was reportedly given to investigators looking into the April 13 shooting that killed Aubrey Resendez. Prosecutors have charged Joshua Johnson, 32, of Wichita, w...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The University of Louisiana System is trying to draw more adult learners who didn't finish their college degrees back to school by offering them cheaper tuition. System President Jim Henderson announced the tuition cut plans Tuesday, saying they dovetail with Louisiana's higher education master plan goals to boost the number of state residents with degrees and industry certifications. Adults returning to school to complete a degree in a list of areas will pay a flat rate of $275 per credit hour if they meet certain quali...
