Articles from the July 31, 2024 edition


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  • Local students shine at FCCLA National Leadership Conference in Seattle

    Jul 31, 2024

    Four dedicated Waynoka students recently attended the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) National Leadership Conference in Seattle, Washington. The conference, held from June 28 through July 3, brought together over 8,000 FCCLA members and guests from across the country. Serenity Green, Keira Durkee, and Aubry Delano competed in the STAR Events, a program that recognizes students for their leadership, community service, and career preparation projects. Although they did not...

  • Alfalfa County court filings

    Jul 31, 2024

    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 Newsgram will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper. Civil Filings Discover Bank vs. Nick Ellenburg: indebtedness ($252.14)....

  • Woods County commissioners hire new office assistant

    Marione Martin|Jul 31, 2024

    The Woods County commissioners have a new office assistant in training. Christy Gregory will be replacing Amy Grimsley, who has taken another job in Alva. Chairman Randy McMurphy opened the meeting Monday with Commissioner John Smiley and District 1 Foreman Damien Starks present. County Clerk Shelley Reed also attended. The commissioners approved the certificate and municipal orders to the county clerk and county treasurer for surety bonds filed with ACCO-SIG for Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Harper, Major and Woodward counties. These are for school...

  • Oklahoma Junior Angus members take first place in team sales, receive Bob Laflin Award

    Jul 31, 2024

  • Alfalfa County real estate transactions

    Jul 31, 2024

    Real Estate Transfers Book 900, page 818: Ray Walter Ryel and Joyce Anne Ryel convey unto Ray Walter Ryel and Joyce Anne Ryel, trustees of the Ryel Living Trust. The northeast quarter of Section 8, Township 23N, Range 11 WIM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Quit claim deed. Book 900, page 846: Kim Janes, Melanie Mahnken Miller and Richard Alan Miller convey unto Jay Jenlink and Stephanie Jenlink. An undivided one-half interest in the northeast quarter of Section 14, Township 25N, Range 9, WIM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Joint tenancy warranty deed. Bo...

  • Alfalfa County Sheriff's Office logs

    Jul 31, 2024

    Tuesday, July 23, 2024 During this day were four traffic stops. 6:12 p.m. – Report of a riding lawn mower on fire at County Road 510 and OK-11. 6:33 p.m. – Report of a suspicious person at County Road 720 and Beckham. Advised of a male with dark hair, dark hoodie and dark backpack on foot. Deputy made contact with the male and gave him a ride to Helena. 8:45 p.m. – Caller advised her camera was activated by some juveniles on her property and it appeared they entered her RV park. The caller advised she didn’t want to file a report, just wanted...

  • ANITA HALE

    Jul 31, 2024

    Anita Hale was born on November 26, 1936, in McCamey, Texas, to John S. Tinney and Lilly Dunavant Tinney. She attended school there and graduated from McCamey High School in 1955. On November 1, 1957, she married Billy Hale. Anita worked for a doctor's office while in Texas. In Oklahoma she worked for the Fairview Fellowship Home as well as the Aline Cleo Elementary School Library, which she helped start. Her hobbies included being a Boy Scout leader, Blue Birds leader, Watermelon Festival...

  • EDITH VIOLA JONES

    Jul 31, 2024

    Funeral services for Edith Jones will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 31, 2024, at the Aline United Methodist Church with Pastor Carmen Stafford and Ryan Pullan officiating. Burial will follow in the Aline Star Cemetery under the direction of Wentworth Mortuary, LLC. Edith Viola, daughter of the late Frank Dean and Cora Mae (Meliza) Weber, was born August 25, 1930, on the farm of her grandad's homestead near McWillie, Oklahoma, and passed away July 25, 2024, at Fairview, Oklahoma, at the age of 93...

  • JESSE WILLIAM WEYRAUCH

    Jul 31, 2024

    Jesse William Weyrauch, son of the late Frances Joseph and Audrey Bernice (Tice) Weyrauch, was born August 10, 1943, at Eureka, Kansas, and passed away July 23, 2024, at Claremore, Oklahoma, at the age of 80 years, 11 months and 13 days. At his request, he will be cremated and there will be no services. Jesse grew up in Elk City, Kansas, and attended school there. He proudly served in the United States Army for two years. As a young man he moved to Dacoma and began farming for Don Zahorsky. He continued to be his farmhand until his retirement....

  • JOYCE ELAINE BOWEN

    Jul 31, 2024

    Joyce Elaine Bowen was born on December 7, 1945, in Alva, Oklahoma, to Wilbur and Geneva (Peterson) May. Joyce was raised on the May Ranch. On June 18, 1967, Joyce was united in marriage to the love of her life O'Dale Bowen. They made their home in the Gyp Hills on 12 acres where they raised their three children, O'Lynn, Tonya and Hec until 1984 when they moved to Arizona where they lived for 11 years. When O'Dale passed away on August 20, 1995, Joyce then moved back to Medicine Lodge, Kansas, but wintered in Arizona until she passed June 20,...

  • Do you have sitting disease?

    Marione Martin|Jul 31, 2024

    Have you ever experienced the feeling that someone or something is trying to send you a message? Recently I’ve noticed my knees hurting more when going up the stairs at home. Last weekend I watched a podcast about Alzheimer’s prevention that recommended getting more exercise as well as diet changes. In the mail, I received a magazine with an article titled “Stand Up Against Sitting Disease.” Basically, the message was the same as the old adage – use it or lose it. Here are some notes from the...

  • SB's MacKinney places 2nd at State Games of America

    Jul 31, 2024

  • Barber County beauties

    Jul 31, 2024

  • Ferrell Rentals acquires Cherokee's old hospital lots, commissioners sign warranty deed

    Stacy Sanborn|Jul 31, 2024

    All three Alfalfa County commissioners attended their meeting on Monday morning. Garret Johnson, Mike Roach and Nate Ross, joined by county clerk Laneta Schwerdtfeger, took care of the routine items, approving previous meeting minutes, maintenance and operation warrants for payment, and blanket purchase orders. There were a few road-crossing permits: three for District 2, totaling $1,847.75, and one for District 1, totaling $500. Next, the three men signed the juvenile detention services agreement by and between Oklahoma Juvenile Justice...

  • Woods County commissioners have routine meeting

    Marione Martin|Jul 31, 2024

    The Woods County commissioners had a fairly routine agenda for Monday’s meeting. Chairman Randy McMurphy opened the meeting with Commissioner John Smiley and District 1 Foreman Damien Starks present. County Clerk Shelley Reed also attended. The commissioners were puzzled by an interlocal government agreement for deputization and mutual aid for law enforcement assistance with the Waynoka City Council. They discussed it might be like the agreement made with the City of Alva to allow David Cummings, interim sheriff, to work part-time for the p...

  • Burlington School new principal starts, Targa settlement not yet reached

    Yvonne Miller|Jul 31, 2024

    “Curriculum has been coming in. The class schedule is complete. The new year is upcoming quickly,” Burlington Public School Superintendent Gerrett Spears said. Burlington Board of Education President April Kisling called the July meeting to order with four board members present: Terry Graham, Lindsey Callison and Robert Hill. T.J. Rockenbach was absent. Superintendent Gerrett Spears, Principal Kenny Daugherty, Principal Stan Pedersen and Minutes Clerk Brook Keast. There were no guests. Spears updated the board on the Targa Settlements. He said,...

  • 1 dead and dozens sickened after eating roasted eel from a Japanese department store

    MARI YAMAGUCHI|Jul 31, 2024

    TOKYO (AP) — One person died and nearly 150 others were sickened after eating grilled eel prepared by a restaurant chain and sold at a department store near Tokyo, officials said. Among those sickened, two required hospitalization. Keikyu Department Store said 147 customers as of Monday had reported symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea after eating grilled eel dishes sold in the grocery section of the department store based in Yokohama, near Tokyo, between July 24 and July 25. Japan has a tradition of eating roasted eel as a tonic for the hea...

  • Israel carries out rare strike on Beirut that it says killed Hezbollah commander

    BASSEM MROUE and TIA GOLDENBERG|Jul 31, 2024

    BEIRUT (AP) — Israel on Tuesday carried out a rare strike on Beirut, which it said killed a top Hezbollah commander who was allegedly behind a weekend rocket attack that killed 12 young people in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. The strike in the Lebanese capital killed at least one woman and two children and wounded dozens of people. Hezbollah did not immediately confirm the commander's death. The strike came amid escalating hostilities with the Lebanese militant group. An Israeli official said the target was Fouad Shukur, a top H...

  • Biden and Lula urge Venezuelan authorities to release detailed presidential election voting data

    REGINA GARCIA CANO|Jul 31, 2024

    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Tuesday called on Venezuela's government to release detailed voting data from the presidential election. Electoral authorities have said President Nicolás Maduro won, but the opposition says their candidate, Edmundo González, secured more than twice as many votes in Sunday's election. In a joint statement after a call in which Venezuela's election was discussed, Biden and Maduro ally Lula said they "agreed on the need for immediate release of...

  • Police clash with a violent crowd gathered near the site of UK stabbing attack that killed 3 girls

    JILL LAWLESS and BRIAN MELLEY|Jul 31, 2024

    LONDON (AP) — Far-right protesters fueled by anger and false online rumors hurled bottles and stones at officers and set a police van ablaze Tuesday outside a northwest England mosque near where three girls were fatally stabbed a day earlier. Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the "thuggery" and said the crowd had hijacked what had earlier been a peaceful vigil attended by hundreds in the center of Southport to mourn the dead and 10 surviving stabbing victims, seven of whom were in critical condition. Police said the violent crowd was b...

  • Project 2025 shakes up leadership after criticism from Democrats and Trump, but says work goes on

    ALI SWENSON and LISA MASCARO|Jul 31, 2024

    NEW YORK (AP) — The director of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 vision for a complete overhaul of the federal government stepped down Tuesday after blowback from Donald Trump's campaign, which has tried to disavow the program created by many of the former president's allies and former aides. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said Paul Dans' exit comes after the project "completed exactly what it set out to do." Roberts, who has emerged as a chief spokesman for the effort, plans to lead Project 2025 going forward. "Our c...

  • Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in US government boarding schools

    MATTHEW BROWN|Jul 31, 2024

    BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — At least 973 Native American children died in the U.S. government's abusive boarding school system, according to the results of an investigation released Tuesday by Interior Department officials who called on the government to apologize for the schools. The investigation commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland found marked and unmarked graves at 65 of the more than 400 U.S. boarding schools where Native American children were forcibly assimilated into white society. The findings don't specify how each child died, b...

  • Acting Secret Service director says he's 'ashamed' after the Trump assassination attempt

    ERIC TUCKER and FARNOUSH AMIRI|Jul 31, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service's acting director told lawmakers Tuesday that he considered it indefensible that the roof used by the gunman in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was unsecured and said it was regrettable that local law enforcement had not alerted his agency before the shooting that an armed subject had been spotted on a nearby roof. Ronald Rowe Jr. also testified that he recently visited the shooting site and lied down on the roof of the building where shots were fired in order to evaluate the g...

  • More women are ending pregnancies on their own, a new study suggests. Some resort to unsafe methods

    LAURA UNGAR|Jul 31, 2024

    A growing number of women said they've tried to end their pregnancies on their own by doing things like taking herbs, drinking alcohol or even hitting themselves in the belly, a new study suggests. Researchers surveyed reproductive-age women in the U.S. before and after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. The proportion who reported trying to end pregnancies by themselves rose from 2.4% to 3.3%. "A lot of people are taking things into their own hands," said Dr. Grace Ferguson, a Pittsburgh OB-GYN and abortion provider who...

  • Simone Biles and Team USA earn 'redemption' by powering to Olympic gold in women's gymnastics

    WILL GRAVES|Jul 31, 2024

    PARIS (AP) — Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles and Sunisa Lee spent the night before perhaps the biggest gymnastics meet of their lives restless. There was a tension in the air. They'd all been in the Olympic spotlight before, experiences that left them with medals but also the kind of scars — be they physical, psychological or both — that heal but never really go away. And here they were in Paris, the leaders of a star-laden U.S. team everyone expected to finish atop the medal stand, and something wasn't right. In a different time, in a diffe...

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