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In old business, several items were discussed. The Alva Recreation Center concession fundraiser is set and ready to go. We discussed the Alva Police Department equipment fundraiser and our participation in the family fun day. The dunk tank that was going to be used by the Hens has a leak and it will not be available. It was decided a bake sale will be set up instead. The funds from the bake sale will help to fund our 4th of July daytime activities in the park. Our flyer for our 4th of July daytime activities in Hatfield Park is just about...
Breakfast Menu for Alva Public Schools Monday—Breakfast taco or toast, cereal, fruit, juice, milk Tuesday—Biscuit and sausage gravy or toast, cereal, fruit, juice, milk Wednesday—Cinnamon toast, scrambled eggs or toast, cereal, fruit, juice, milk Lunch Menu for Alva Public Schools Monday—Pig in a blanket, mac and cheese, green beans, fruit, milk Tuesday—Pizza pasta, breadstick, Caesar salad, fruit, milk Wednesday—Beef or chicken taco, refried beans, chips and salsa, fruit, milk Menu for Woods County Senior Citizens Monday—Chicken Alfredo, broc...
The Alva Airport Commission meeting Monday started off with the discovery that agenda packets did not include minutes of the March 14 meeting. Since the commission members couldn’t review them, they voted to table that item until a later meeting. However, the minutes from April 11 were approved. Chairman Dale Logsdon presided over the meeting with members Paul Kinzie, Terry Cline and Kelly Parker present. Calleb Mosburg was absent. City Council Report Mayor Parker presented the city council report. He said the Oklahoma Municipal League (OML) r...
The Alva City Council agenda for Monday’s meeting is lengthy. Items of high interest to all city residents are a resolution to change rates for ambulance transports and a resolution to pause the scheduled increase in utility rates for the fiscal year beginning July 1. It’s possible the council could decide on a new city business manager. The council meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the council chambers of City Hall. The street in front of the city building is currently under con...
In a special meeting Wednesday morning, the Woods County Commissioners considered bids for a light tower. Commissioners Randy McMurphy and John Smiley were present for the meeting. David Hamil was absent. Woods County Emergency Management Director Ethan Feidler was present to discuss the bids. Feidler said only one bid was received although another potential bidder talked to him about it. Northwest Electric bid $30,499. Feidler said the bid looked good with no changes made to the specifications. Grants totaling $10,000 will be applied to the pu...
Real Estate Transfers Book 1332 page 682: Jerako Properties LLC conveys unto Dario Bravo and Denise Bravo. Lot 11, block 2, City of Waynoka, Nickersons 3rd Subdivision. Warranty deed. Book 1332 page 683: Dario Bravo and Denise Bravok convey unto Brent Kintz and Kacie Kintz. Lot 11, block 2, City of Waynoka, Nickersons 3rd Subdivision. Warranty deed. Book 1332 page 699: Devery Implement LLC conveys unto Vanlandingham LLC. Lots 17-20, block 48, City of Alva, OT Subdivision. Warranty deed. Book 1332 page 700: Kyle L. Bergner conveys unto Jeter J....
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 Woods 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 Christopher Alan Wharton, Lakewood, Washington,...
Thursday, May 5, 2022 During this day there were 13 traffic stops and one report of cattle out. 12:28 a.m. – Report of a suspicious circumstance on Tumbleweed Lane. 1:57 a.m. – Report of a suspicious circumstance on Thunderbird Road. 9:36 a.m. – Report of a suspicious person. 10:04 a.m. – Medic needed for a unresponsive but breathing person on Cherokee Street. 12:05 p.m. – Medic needed on Fair Street for a sick person. 3:29 p.m. – Report of trespassing on Oklahoma Boulvard. 7:16 p.m. – Medic needed on Main Street for a sick person. Frida...
As the Ukraine war ramped up, our president and government started sending millions of dollars and war materials against most people's wishes. Suddenly abortion and Roe vs Wade becomes front page news everywhere, focusing our attention away from the war in the Ukraine and our real involvement. I bet it would be scary to know what they have really done behind our backs, while we are distracted. Let me assure you I am not belittling the abortion dilemma. The timing just seems a bit strange. I hope...
At this point in the legislative session, we still have a lot to do and not a lot of time left. Oklahoma’s Constitution says we must adjourn the legislative session by 5 p.m. on the last Friday in May. This year, the last Friday in May is the 27th, so we only have a couple of weeks to conclude our work. The most important job for the Legislature is to write and pass a balanced budget. While that may not sound as interesting as some of the bills we debate and vote on, ultimately, the budget impacts every single person in our state. Whether w...
Yep, it’s been a really tough few years for everyone in just about every possible conceivable way. Financially, physically, and emotionally, and it hasn’t really mattered how old or young you are – life has stunk in a lot of ways. And this horrible onslaught of stress and grief is definitely taking its toll. People are struggling to make sense of their lives and to carry on with some sense of normalcy. All this has had negative consequences for each of us. You may be reacting to all this pain...
Six Northwestern Oklahoma State University graduates have been selected as the 2022 Outstanding Graduates. This year’s outstanding graduates include Alexandria Carmon, Rich Cantillon, Tommi Leach, Patricia Mitchell, Clay Reed and Greg Bowman. The outstanding graduates program was established by the Northwestern Alumni Association in 1973 to recognize outstanding achievement. Initially, no distinction was made between categories. In 1977, awards were presented in the specific fields of business/professional, education and humanitarian. In 1...
Six students at Northwestern Oklahoma State University won awards at the Oklahoma Broadcast Education Association's recent contest. This statewide competition took submissions from all colleges in Oklahoma. NWTV7 placed in three different events. Cade Kennedy, sophomore mass communication major from Alva, and Jara Reeder, junior mass communication major from Elk City, teamed up to cover a Northwestern soccer game for their Sports Reporting course under Dr. Luis Rocha-Antunes, assistant professor...
It's a fine day. The little girl loads her bicycle basket with supplies. First is a stack of paper, then a jelly jar filled with water and finally her Prang watercolor set. She's ready to set off for the nearby lake to fill all that white paper with images of the beauty she sees everywhere. This is how Jill Webber began her artistic career. "I was very young, and I had an intense interest in leaves and trees, rocks, lake water, the woods, the forest," she said. "I grew up in a very small town,...
Alva Police Department presented the car show and BBQ contest Friday and Saturday. People strolled up and down the streets looking at the old classics....
An Alva police officer had to be taken to the hospital after he was exposed to items in a vehicle stopped for speeding. Court papers show the incident occurred on Tuesday, May 10, at 9:03 p.m. Alva Police Officer Kaleb Keplinger was heading south on US-281 toward Hopeton when he observed a silver Ford Escape traveling northbound on US-281 at 91 mph. Keplinger met the vehicle at approximately Greer Road and US-281 and locked the speed in his radar at 87 mph. As the vehicle passed, he activated his emergency lights and siren and turned to...
The Kiwanis Little Olympics Track Meet was held on April 29. Students who won first place in both of their individual events were presented with Silver Shoe medals at a luncheon on May 4....
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The 18-year-old gunman who authorities say killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket had previously threatened a shooting at his high school and was sent for mental health treatment. A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that Payton Gendron had appeared on the radar of police last year after he threatened to carry out a shooting around the time of graduation. Officials also say the gunman had researched the local demographics and arrived in the area a day in advance to conduct reconnaissance with the "express...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Almost three months after Russia shocked the world by invading Ukraine, its military faces a bogged-down war, the prospect of a bigger NATO and an opponent buoyed Sunday by wins on and off the battlefield. Top diplomats from NATO met in Berlin with the alliance's chief and declared that the war "is not going as Moscow had planned." "Ukraine can win this war," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said, adding that the alliance must continue to offer military support to Kyiv. He spoke by video link to the meeting as he r...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed an order Monday to redeploy hundreds of U.S. troops to Somalia to counter the Islamic extremist rebel group al-Shabab, an effort that American military leaders said had been hampered by President Donald Trump's late-term decision to withdraw forces from the country. U.S. troops will be repositioned from elsewhere in Africa to train and provide other support to Somali forces in their fight against al-Shabab, which is considered the largest and wealthiest affiliate of the al-Qaida extremist o...
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks ended another wobbly day mostly lower on Wall Street Monday, extending a losing streak for markets. The S&P 500 couldn't hold on to an afternoon gain and ended down 0.4%. The benchmark index is coming off a six-week losing streak. Tech companies were among the biggest losers, pulling the Nasdaq down 1.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended barely in the green. Spirit Airlines jumped after JetBlue said it would make a hostile offer for the budget carrier. ManTech surged after investment firm Carlyle Group said it w...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman accused of massacring 10 Black people in a racist rampage at a Buffalo supermarket planned to keep on killing if he had escaped the scene, the police commissioner said Monday, as the possibility of federal hate crime or domestic terror charges loomed. The gunman, who had crossed the state to target people at the Tops Friendly Market, had talked about shooting up another store as well, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia told CNN. "He was going to get in his car and continue to drive down J...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's conservative majority sided Monday with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and struck down a provision of federal campaign finance law, a ruling that a dissenting justice said runs the risk of causing "further disrepute" to American politics. The court, by a 6-3 vote, said the provision Cruz challenged limiting the repayment of personal loans from candidates to their campaigns violates the Constitution. The decision comes just as campaigning for the 2022 midterm elections is intensifying. Chief Justice John...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's conservative majority sided Monday with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and struck down a provision of federal campaign finance law, a ruling that a dissenting justice said runs the risk of causing "further disrepute" to American politics. The court, by a 6-3 vote, said the provision Cruz challenged limiting the repayment of personal loans from candidates to their campaigns violates the Constitution. The decision comes just as campaigning for the 2022 midterm elections is intensifying. Chief Justice John...
