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Tuesday, May 8, 2018 6:40 a.m. Controlled burn at the junction of County Road 630 and State Highway 58. 8:40 a.m. Report of cattle out Aline Road and County Road 670. 9:13 a.m. Controlled burn on County Road 550 and Dacoma Road. 10:15 a.m. Controlled burn north of Cherokee. 1:41 p.m. Deputy had a traffic stop at junction of U.S. Highway 64 and State Highway 11. 4:54 p.m. Deputy has a traffic stop in 1100 block of Oklahoma. 5:54 p.m. Report of a dog at large. 6 p.m. Report of a dog at large. 6:15 p.m. Controlled burn on County Road 600. 6:18...
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 Jessey Lee Johnson, Nash, 47, has been charged...
May 7, 2018 Deputy Woods investigated a 911 hang up call on north Main Street in Medicine Lodge. Sharon Fire Department went to the Sharon ball field to assist person locked in building. Deputy Miller checked on an alarm call on Main Street in Kiowa. Deputy Woods investigated a suspicious vehicle on Rumsey Street in Kiowa. May 8, 2018 Deputy Woods investigated the theft of a pumping unit motor in the Kiowa, Kansas, area. Deputy Woods took a report on a theft that happened in Sharon, Kansas. Deputy Paasch investigated a stolen pump jack motor...
The Freedom Public Schools will the hold elementary awards at 9 a.m. on Friday with high school awards to follow at 1 p.m. The baccalaureate service will be the next evening at 6 p.m., with graduation to follow at 7 p.m. Seniors will leave the next day for their senior trip to the east coast. The board made a slight change in the 2018-2019 school calendar to better match up with the calendar of Northwest Technology Center. This amounts to about a two day shift at Christmas break. The Superintendent James Miller said the money carry over will...
An agenda entry entitled “Discussion on events and activities to be entered into the Oklahoma Magazine website” created a discussion surrounding such issues as “should the town be responsible for feeding information to websites or should the Freedom Chamber of Commerce be responsible?” Another approach suggested was that each entity should be responsible for their own event if they wished website presence. For example, the Freedom EMS recently hosted a mud run as a fund-raiser. Should the city be involved in publicity for that? No conclus...
The Alfalfa County Board of Commissioners held its regular meeting Monday morning. All commissioners were present, as well as Nancy Lambert, Colt Castle, Sarah Wagner, Shana Smallwood-Buchanan, Kevin Irwin, Lance Terry and Laneta Unruh. After the call to order, Lambert gave the invocation, then the flag was saluted. The commissioners approved the minutes from the previous meeting. Then M & O warrants for payment and the blanket purchase orders received the commissioners' approval. Two road crossing permits were approved this week, both in...
An Alfalfa County deputy engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with two people in a vehicle, eventually arresting both of them. According to court papers, the incident started Tuesday, May 8, about 11 p.m. Deputy Thomas Wilson arrived in Jet and saw a white four door sedan facing south on Highway 38 at the stop sign. As he passed, both occupants appeared to be startled by his presence. It appeared they were glaring at him when he passed. The vehicle did not move from the stop sign. When Wilson was...
The Woods County commissioners are looking into paying for an additional strip of concrete at their south parking lot exit that would join the concrete strip the city is laying for the annual car show burn out competition on Barnes Street. Steve Foster made the suggestion they could avoid an awkward situation of putting a small strip of asphalt between the city's concrete and the county's parking lot entrance concrete. The commissioners asked Foster to get an estimate of the cost. Two people from the Jehovah Witnesses, Linda Constantin and Henr...
A Nash man has been charged with embezzlement from a company where he used to work. The case eventually involved federal authorities. The investigation began Jan. 25 when Attorney Sam Stein of Cherokee contacted Alfalfa County Sheriff Rick Wallace on behalf of a client, according to court records. Stein’s client, Larry Angle, is the owner of Angle Farms LLC of Amorita. Later that day Stein, Larry Angle and Office Manager Susan Angle met with Wallace at the sheriff’s office. They alleged that Jessey Lee Johnson had inappropriately used the com...
At the May meeting of the South Barber Board of Education Monday night members accepted the resignation of board president Steve Allen, effective immediately. Board Vice-President Mark Pollock called the meeting to order as he has the last several months in the absence of Allen. Pollock is now president of the board. The board elected Bryan Quick (who was longtime president when he served on the board the first time) as vice president. Pollock volunteered to serve as South Barber’s representative on the South Central Kansas Special Education C...
(From the internet) Q: Doctor, I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this true? A: Your heart only good for so many beats, and that it. Don't waste on exercise. Everything wear out eventually. Speeding up heart not make live longer; it like saying extend life of car by driving faster. Want live longer? Take a nap. Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake? A: No, not at all. Wine made from fruit. Brandy is distilled wine, which mean they take water out of fruity bit so you get...
0According to Oklahoma’s Constitution, the Legislature must complete all work on the state budget and policy issues to be concluded by no later than 5 p.m. on the last Friday in May – this year the deadline was May 25. This year we fulfilled those responsibilities three weeks before that deadline, and adjourned the concurrent special session focusing on education in mid-April. There were tremendous challenges to meet, but ultimately, we succeeded in passing the largest teacher pay increase in our state’s history. We also succeeded in funding a...
Angel Hernandez of Cherokee is one of 10 students elected for the 2018-2019 state officer team of the Oklahoma CareerTech Family, Career and Community Leaders of America student organization. Family and Consumer Sciences Education, and its affiliated student organization FCCLA, are integral components in the CareerTech system. This national student organization helps young men and women become leaders and address important personal, family, work and societal issues. Hernandez, a 2018-2019...
Mr. and Mrs. Charles (Sonnie) Daub will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary. The family is having a come-'n'-go reception Saturday, May 19, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. for friends and family at the Baker Building in Cherokee. Charles Eugene Daub and Donna Murelyn DeVore were married May 14, 1958, in Newkirk, Oklahoma, at the courthouse. Their children are Jim Daub and the late Murelyn Daub. Sonnie and Donna have five grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren....
SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist placed four athletes on the 2018 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field All-Central Region men's team, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced. All-Region honors are awarded for posting a top-five individual finish in each of the eight regions in addition to each member of a top-three relay team in the region. This season marks the first for OBU athletes to be eligible for the distinction. Carlos James, Shirvante Knauls, Sayvon Milton and Dillon Phillips were named A...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Led from a courtroom in handcuffs Tuesday, one of the nation's most recognizable white nationalists will have 38 days behind bars to ponder the dizzying demise of the group he led before his arrest exposed a bizarre sex scandal. Matthew Heimbach's jail sentence for a probation violation is just the latest setback for the "alt-right" fringe movement that appears to be reeling after becoming emboldened and energized by Donald Trump's presidential campaign and election. Richard Spencer, who coined the term "alt-right" to d...
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — When freshman Eden Hebron wanted to capture the searing experience of being in a classroom where a fellow student killed her best friend and three other people, she turned to poetry. The result was "1216," named after the number of the room at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School: "The screams blasting in my ear. The blood still won't disappear. I scream their names, call for my friends. Nothing else to do, they are gone, they are dead." The community at Marjory Stoneman Douglas has become best-known for the handful of c...
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Environmental groups and three Montana landowners sued Tuesday to cancel hundreds of recent oil and gas lease sales, saying the U.S. government's leasing of public lands is skyrocketing without understanding how all that drilling will affect water quality and climate change. WildEarth Guardians, Montana Environmental Information Center and the three landowners filed their lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Great Falls over the 287 leases sold in December and March that cover nearly 234 square miles (606 square kilometers) a...
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao (AP) — A lawyer for a subsidiary of Houston-based ConocoPhillips said a court in the Dutch Antilles has authorized it to seize $1.94 billion worth of assets held on Bonaire island by Venezuela's state oil company, PDVSA. Houston-based Conoco is seeking to recover $2 billion in a dispute over expropriation of its oil projects by Venezuela's economically struggling socialist government. The lawyer spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media. The seizure of the oil storage terminal on B...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, a leading supporter of corn-based ethanol, says he'll call for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's resignation if Pruitt doesn't work to fulfill federal ethanol mandates. Grassley is showing frustration with Pruitt's lack of action to uphold the Renewable Fuel Standards law. On a conference call with agriculture reporters Tuesday Grassley said Pruitt had better follow through with ethanol mandates or "I'm going to be calling for Pruitt to resign because I'm done p...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. retail sales rose at a solid pace in April, a sign that consumers may be rebounding from weak spending earlier this year and driving stronger economic growth. Retail sales increased at a 0.3 percent rate in April, the Commerce Department said Tuesday, down from a 0.8 percent gain in March, which was revised higher from 0.6 percent. The spending gains were spread across most retail categories, with especially big gains at furniture and clothing stores. Consumer spending has rebounded in the past two months after a weak J...
