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Tuesday, June 11, 2019 During this day there was one report of cattle out, two civil papers served and nine traffic stops. 2:28 p.m. – Report of a reckless driver on US64 in a red pickup. 3:13 p.m. – Vehicle repossession. 7:37 p.m. – Welfare check needed for a person walking on US64. Advised Woods County. 8:47 p.m. – Report of a civil matter. 9:50 p.m. – Report of a tank battery fire. Carmen Fire Department was paged. 10:09 p.m. – Report of a suspicious vehicle on County Road 660 and SH11. Unknown if people were in the vehicle. 11:57 p.m. – Cal...
Real Estate Transfers Book 144 page 277: James Mitchell Reed and Dawn Reed, husband and wife, unto Jason M. Thayer and Sameta G. Thayer, husband and wife. Lot 12 in block 118 in the Town Company’s Addition to the City of Kiowa. Joint tenancy warranty deed. Book 144 page 283: Mark A. Huddler, a single person, unto Ruthie Ann Bell. Commencing 49 feet west of the southeast corner of lot 33, thence due west 60 feet, thence due north 302 feet, thence due east 60 feet, thence due south 302 feet to the place of beginning, being a part of lot 33 on S...
Criminal Filings Richard Allen Holt has been charged with theft of property or services; value less than $1,500. Civil Filings In the matter of the name change of Sondray Thunder Powell. Ditech Financial LLC fka Green Tree Servicing LLC vs. Rodgina F. Duvall: mortgage foreclosure. The Farmers Cooperative Equity Company vs. C. Edward Wray: debt collection. The Farmers Cooperative Equity Company vs. Lori R. Jones: debt collection. Traffic Filings Javier Avila Gonzalez has been cited for maximum speed limits ($165). David Wayne Isaac has been...
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 Edward Quixote Jones, Cherokee, 37, has been c...
Bob and Barbara Clover of rural Nash, Oklahoma, will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on Friday, June 21, 2019. Robert (Bob) Clover and Barbara Arnold were married June 21, 1959, at the Vining Community Church with Pastor Meno Harms officiating. A few days later, Bob left for a one year tour of duty in Vietnam. After his Army time the couple settled in Wakita where they raised their children and then moved to Ottawa, Kansas, where they lived for 23 years returning to Nash in 2015....
Voters in Alfalfa County who want to have absentee ballots mailed to them for the July 9 Special Election for the City of Cherokee should apply now, County Election Board Secretary Kelly Stein said today. Although the county election board can accept applications for absentee ballots until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 3, Stein urged voters who want to vote by absentee ballot to apply early. Absentee ballot application forms are available at the county election board office located at 602 W. 5th St., Cherokee. An online version of the form can be...
After helping place upward of 30 murals on walls throughout Alva, Beverly Kinzie has stepped down from the presidency of the Alva Mural Society. This seems like an appropriate time to recognize her lifetime of accomplishments. Lots of people in the area think of aviation and innovation when hearing the Kinzie name, but Beverly has provided her own unique contributions to the Kinzie legacy. She graduated from Daniel Webster High School in Tulsa and from Oklahoma City University. She moved to...
Cherokee police were called to an altercation involving a father and son Thursday, June 13. The son, Larry Bryce Harris Jr., 44, of Cherokee, was charged with a felony and three misdemeanors. He is accused of throwing a large chunk of concrete at his father and verbally threatening his sister. Harris has been charged with domestic assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (the concrete chunk), a felony. This crime is punishable by up to one year in the county jail or by up to 10 ears in prison. Harris is also facing three misdemeanor...
Barber County has two community gardens this summer. Both of these are available to anybody to harvest produce. In total, 5600 square feet have been dedicated to these gardens. In Kiowa, the garden is in the second block south of Main Street on 9th. This lot is owned by Kiowa District Healthcare. Their board started the discussion about hosting a community garden and has donated the use of the land. The garden has already harvest 38 pounds of broccoli and cauliflower. The broccoli is still...
A felony arrest warrant has been issued for Edward Quixote Jones, 37, of Cherokee. Jones is wanted by Alfalfa County on charges of domestic assault and battery by strangulation and domestic abuse – prior pattern of physical abuse. The first felony count is punishable by not less than three years nor more than 10 years imprisonment or by a fine of $20,000, or both. The second is punishable by imprisonment for not more than 10 years or by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by both fine and imprisonment. Court records show on June 6 at 1:41 p.m. Cher...
Just when combines try to get in fields of now amber waves of grain to cut what appears to be a high yielding wheat crop, Mother Nature again opens the clouds for another few inches of rain. Talking to elevator operators in the Newsgram reading area Monday, June 17, found harvest has yet to get in full swing with only a small amount of wheat cut. When asked what's happening in Dacoma with harvest, co-op manager Jake Kelln said one word: “mud.” “Before the rains we had seven farmers going,” Kelln said. He said they saw yields from 45 to 65 bush...
Duke University has recognized Brooke Boyce, seventh grader from Medicine Lodge Junior High, for being among the most academically talented middle school students in the nation. She is the daughter of Chad and Alisa Boyce. Boyce has been recognized for her exceptional scores on an ACT she took in February, by the Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) seventh-grade talent search. Based on her ACT scores she was invited to both the State Recognition Ceremony at the University...
Saturday at 4 a.m., Kiowa man Nathan Lambert, 29, had a single vehicle wreck that landed him and his pickup in the flooded Little Mule Creek along K2 Highway two miles west of Kiowa. Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Charley Brattin investigated the scene and described the wreck of Lambert, who was driving a 2005 Chevy Silverado. The trooper said the pickup "was traveling east on K2 when it rotated clockwise and traveled off the road and struck a guardrail. (The) vehicle overturned an unknown...
At this Monday's regular Woods County commissioners meeting, the group approved several contracts with juvenile detention centers. Contracts with both the Beckham County Juvenile Detention Center and the Northwest Oklahoma Regional Juvenile Detention Center were approved, each in the amount of $58 per child per day, for the 2019-20 fiscal year. They also approved the fiscal year 2019-20 contract with the Texas County Juvenile Detention Center, this time in the amount of $41 per child per day. The commissioners also addressed equipment and mater...
This is the fourth year for the Alva Goldbug Baseball Summer Tournament with eight teams playing. Games will be played at Crenshaw Field (AHS Ballpark). Admission pricing will be at the gate. Money raised from this event is used to buy balls, helmets and other needed items for the Alva baseball program. Tournament rules: • Two-hour time limit • 10 after four innings and eight after five innings • Coin flip for home team • Alva will always be in the third-base dugout Tiebreaker rules: • Head to head • Least runs allowed • Coin flip Friday,...
Funeral services for Jacqueline Leeper will be 11 a.m. Thursday, June 20, 2019, at the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) with Pastor Ron Pingelton officiating. Private family interment will be prior to the service in the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Jacqueline Leeper, daughter of the late Francis Albert and Veda Geraldine (Johnson) Nugent, was born January 27, 1927, Medford, Oklahoma, and passed away June 16, 2019, in Alva, Oklahoma,...
Donna Dorene Joy was born October 15, 1936, in Alva, Oklahoma, to Kenneth and Pearl (Steward) Benningfield. She passed away June 15, 2019, at Hillsboro Community Hospital in Hillsboro, Kansas, at the age of 82 years, 4 mo nths and 15 days.Besides her parents, Dorene was preceded in death by her sister, Wanda Jean (Benningfield) Eckert, and grandson, Jacob Joy. Dorene is survived by her husband Melvin Joy of their home in Durham, Kansas; two children, son Dan Joy (of Corvallis, Oregon); daughter...
Suzanne Resler passed peacefully surrounded by friends and family in her home in Alva, Oklahoma, on Monday, June 17, 2019. She had stunningly learned of the pancreatic cancer that would take her life only three weeks before. Suzanne Harzman Resler was born on September 9, 1940, and raised in Alva, Oklahoma. She was preceded in death by her husband, Pete Resler; parents, Charles and Elaine Harzman and all four of her brothers: Bill, Nick, Mike, and Kem Harzman. Suzanne married Paul D. Resler of...
Monday night was standing room only at the Alva City Council meeting. This rarely happens. I’ve been covering council meetings for news a long time, far longer than any of the current council has been in office. Monday’s meeting didn’t quite reach the numbers who came to hearings a few years ago when Integris wanted to open a clinic in Alva, but the citizen attendance was still impressive. Some of the audience members were there in official capacity. There were a couple of people from Oklahoma N...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's highest court on Tuesday rejected a legal effort to block a plan for a public vote on whether to expand Medicaid to tens of thousands of poor residents. Just hours after hearing oral arguments in the case, the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected the challenge spearheaded by a conservative think-tank that has long opposed to making the federally funded health insurance program available to more people. The court's decision authorized supporters to proceed with gathering the nearly 178,000 signatures they will need t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Mayor David Holt has declared Oklahoma City's first official Pride Week to celebrate LBGTQ accomplishments. Holt helped kick off a week's worth of events Monday with a mayoral proclamation to "reaffirm our city's commitment that all people are welcome in Oklahoma City." Others who joined the kickoff included Councilman James Cooper, who became Oklahoma City's first openly gay councilman when he took office in April. Festivities include a parade Saturday that will roll by businesses catering to LGBTQ clientele along a s...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A former Oklahoma State Supreme Court justice will attempt to resolve a dispute over how to disburse an $85 million settlement of a state lawsuit with Teva Pharmaceuticals. Cleveland Count District Judge Thad Balkman said Monday that retired Judge Steven Taylor will serve as special master to help find a way to handle the funds arising from a lawsuit that accused drug companies of contributing to the opioid epidemic. Gov. Kevin Stitt, lawmakers and cities say the May 26 settlement conflicts with a law directing any s...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a woman who is accused of making false accusations about her daughter's father that prompted a search for him on Father's Day. The Wichita Eagle reports that 34-year-old Ronetta Ann Clement was arrested Monday and booked into Sedgwick County Jail on suspicion of interference with law enforcement and providing false information. Wichita police Capt. Brent Allred said Tuesday at a news conference that Clement reported Sunday that the father of her 2-year-old daughter was refusing to return the g...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal magistrate spared a Wichita businessman prison time after he pleaded guilty Tuesday for his role in concealing the transfer of betting information from illegal poker games. Brandon Steven, 45, was sentenced to three years of probation and 200 hours of community service. He also forfeited nearly $1.1 million as part of a plea deal on one misdemeanor count of being an accessory after the fact to the transmission of wagering information in 2016 and 2017. The case against Steven was unsealed just hours before his c...
