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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 Priscilla A. Rewis, Helena, vs. Brandal H. Garrett, Helena...
September's First Friday Artwalk events at the Runnymede in downtown Alva, sponsored by the Nescatunga Arts and Humanities Council, will see a photography display on the first floor of the building as well as an opportunity to paint rocks. From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sept. 6, the photography of Ingrid Maldonado of Alva will be displayed. She is a graduate of Alva High School and currently is attending Northwestern Oklahoma State University. The portrait photographer said her passion for...
Real Estate Transfers Book 901, page 537: Jenn Martin, Molly Blankenship and Melanie Sue Worrell, co-trustees of the Doyle L. Alexander Family Trust, and Jenny Martin, Molly Blankenship and Melanie Sue Worrell, co-trustees of the Alexander Living Trust, convey one-half interest to Ricky D. Hankey, trustee of the Rick Hankey Trust and undivided one-half interest to Beverly J. Hankey, trustee of the Beverly Hankey Trust. Undivided one-half interest in the southeast quarter of Section 24, Township 29N, Range 11, WIM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, and...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 8:35 a.m. – Report of a suspicious person at Chaparral Apartments. 10:40 a.m. – Report of a domestic situation going on in the 300 block of Grand. Advised the subject had left. The male from the domestic got on the phone, stating the subject was his ex-girlfriend. Male refused medical assistance. Deputy en route to look for the vehicle and subject. 11:29 a.m. – Report of a grass fire on Bryan Road. 12:12 p.m. – Medic needed at James Crabtree Correctional Center for a 79-year-old male who possibly had a stroke. Medic t...
Real Estate Transfers Book 150, page 283: John M. Snyder conveys to Zachary A. Barker. A tract of land beginning as a point 426 feet north of the southwest corner of the northeast quarter of Section 1, Township 32 south, Range 12 west of the 6th PM, Barber County, Kansas. Warranty deed. Book 150, page 285: Gerald J. Boor Jr. and Barbara J. Boor convey unto Gerald and Barbara Boor Family Trust. Lot 2 in Block 66 in the City of Hardtner and lots 1, 2 and 3 in Block 93 in the City of Hardtner, Kansas. Quit claim deed. Book 150, page 286: Steven...
Billie Gay Venters, daughter of the late Robert Clide and Emma Eva (Stinson) McBride, was born March 1, 1934, at Zefra, Oklahoma, and passed away August 28, 2024, at Enid, Oklahoma. Billie was raised in the Alva and Waynoka area with her sisters. After high school, she graduated from Enid Beauty School. She was living in Edmond when she met and married Harry Venters. After his death, she moved to Enid to be near her sister, Vada Parker. She enjoyed reading and watching TV and traveling with her husband, traveling throughout Europe and to...
Darlene Joan (French) Joseph left this world on September 1, 2024, with loved ones by her side. Darlene was born to Roud French and Nora (Thill) French on October 20, 1936, in Lyon County, Kansas. Darlene was proud to be a Lamont Cardinal. On August 29, 1959, Darlene married Donald Joseph, Darlene and Donald went on to have two daughters, Donna Marie (Riggs) and Dale Jean (Probst). Darlene served the farmers of Barber County and surrounding areas at the ASCS office in Medicine Lodge, Kansas,...
Funeral services for Joy Haltom will be 2 p.m. Wednesday, September 4, 2024, at the Alva Wesleyan Church with Pastor Paul Kirk officiating. Burial will follow in the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Joy Melody, daughter of Bernard Darold and Arleen Loreen (Prins) Thorne, was born March 20, 1959, at Primghar, Iowa, and passed away August 30, 2024, in Oklahoma City surrounded by her family at the age of 65 years, 5 months and 10 days. Joy attended...
Funeral services for Leta Guinn were held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, September 3, 2024, at the First United Methodist Church with Rev. Taylor Anderson officiating. A private family burial followed in the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home. Leta Faye, daughter of Rufus Cecil and Flossie Pearle (Nippert) Hamilton was born August 25, 1936, in her grandmother's home in Mangum, Oklahoma, and passed away in her Alva, Oklahoma, home, surrounded by family and friends August...
Recently I ran into another instance of an unknown password. Wilma Newby from the Oklahoma Press Association stopped by and was trying to help me with a problem logging into a website. Some of you may remember her as Wilma Hill who graduated from Alva High School. She discovered that our internet firewall was preventing us from logging onto the site, and I didn’t have the password to access it because it was set up by my late husband. I managed to find a bunch of his passwords, but that one w...
With temperatures in the 60s and partly cloudy, it was an absolutely beautiful morning for Kiowa's Labor Day 5K race. Starting the race about 8:30 a.m., the runners and walkers who finished totaled 211. South Barber Superintendent Dr. Mylo Miller was first to cross the finish line with a time of 18:56.7. Because he is 44 years old, Miller is considered the Overall Masters Male Finisher. When asked, Miller said he thinks he's won the 5K three times and second the last six years when Luis Chavez...
Brenda (Tucker) Shue, president of South Barber's Class of 1974, attended their 50th anniversary as the first class to graduate from the new South Barber USD #255. The class celebrated Saturday night at a reunion of just their classmates, spouses, etc. Then many of them and all affiliated with South Barber's last 50 years were welcome to come to the party with cake, punch and a Chieftain helmet overflowing with memories and fun. South Barber Superintendent Dr. Mylo Miller said the Class of 1974...
The Alfalfa County commissioners' agenda was short at this week's meeting. Garret Johnson, Mike Roach and Nate Ross took care of the usual business, approving last week's minutes, maintenance and operation warrants for payment, and blanket purchase orders. They also signed off on monthly officer reports and the Court Clerk Records Management and Preservation monthly report. After that, they gave signatures to the monthly appropriations (including lapsed for fiscal year (FY) 2022-2023 and FY 2023-2024 to FY 2024-2025) and the allocation of...
As American kids head back to school, they're likely to return home with an alien language their own parents may find befuddling. From TikTok to the kitchen table, words like "rizzler" and "skibidi" are finding a foothold in the lexicon of today's tweens. Are you fluent enough to survive the back-to-school season? Put your knowledge to the test with this vocab quiz. Sigma Your middle schooler describes his friend as "sigma." That means he thinks his friend is: a. weak b. weird c. Greek d. an alpha male Rizzler Your friend is described as a...
By his own account, Ohio Sen. JD Vance's 2019 conversion to Catholicism provided a spiritual fulfillment he couldn't find in his Yale education or career success. It also amounted to a political conversion. Catholicism provided him a new way of looking at the addictions, family breakdowns and other social ills he described in his 2016 bestselling memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy." "I felt desperate for a worldview that understood our bad behavior as simultaneously social and individual, structural and moral; that recognized that we are products of our...
The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people's bodies, according to a new study that also said more than two-thirds of it comes from the Global South. It's enough pollution each year — about 52 million metric tons — to fill New York City's Central Park with plastic waste as high as the Empire State Building, according to researchers at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. They examined waste produced on the local level at...
Residents of South Dakota's second-biggest city remained on edge as a wildfire threatened to force evacuations for those living closest to it. But the battle to contain the First Thunder Fire got a boost Wednesday from cooler weather and lighter winds. Officials were optimistic homes in Rapid City would remain safe. The First Thunder Fire was reported Monday just a few miles from Rapid City, a community of 80,000 residents near Black Hills National Forest. Mount Rushmore National Memorial is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) away, but far out of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is preparing to accuse Russia on Wednesday of disinformation campaigns targeting the U.S. presidential election, according to three people familiar with the matter. Intelligence agencies have previously charged that Russia was using disinformation to try to interfere in the election. But the anticipated announcement from Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to show the depth of U.S. concerns and signal legal actions against those suspected of being involved. The people who discussed the a...
For more than a week, hundreds of Israeli forces have carried out the deadliest operation in the occupied West Bank since the war in Gaza began. Their focus has been the Jenin refugee camp — a bastion of Palestinian militancy that has grown more fervent since the Hamas attack on Israel that launched the war. The fighting in Jenin accounts for 18 of the 33 Palestinians health officials say have been killed, most of whom the military says have been militants. Israel says its soldiers are dug in for battle with Hamas and other groups, meaning t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have issued a subpoena demanding testimony from Secretary of State Antony Blinken as they wrap up a sprawling yearslong investigation into the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. Rep. Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a subpoena letter late Tuesday ordering Blinken to appear before the committee by Sept. 19 or face a contempt of Congress charge. "You served as the final decision maker for the department on the withdrawal and evacuation," McCaul w...
It was a rapture and a revelation all at the same time. En masse, celebrity stan accounts posted tearful farewells over the weekend as X was suspended in Brazil amid a showdown between Elon Musk and a Supreme Court justice. Many of their hundreds of thousands of followers learned only then that their favorite celebrity's most dedicated English-language fan accounts had actually been run by Brazilians. It shouldn't have necessarily been a surprise — "Come to Brazil" is a stalwart meme. Brazil's CCXP bills itself as the Americas' largest c...
