Martin Smith was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1942. As a youngster, he loved to read and decided that he wanted to become a writer of fiction when he grew up. After high school, he attended the ...

An Alva man has been arrested on charges of domestic assault. Wiley Roy Russell, 40, has been charged with domestic assault and battery by strangulation and with domestic assault and battery in the ...

Alva Assembly of God, now known as Speak Life Fellowship, will celebrate its 85th anniversary with a special service on ...

A Carmen man has been charged with assault and burglary in Woods County following a domestic incident with shots fired. According to court records, Woods County Dispatch received a report about the ...

The Alva FFA and 4-H Livestock Judging CDE teams attended the Big 3 Field Days contest in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The contest ...

In 2018 the City of Alva was looking into zoning and planning, an attempt to bring some order to the city's regulation of ...

Shaun’s main goal in life is to never make a mistake. In fact, he will bend over backward in every area of his life to make certain that never happens. The FEAR OF PUNISHMENT from childhood is so ...

There was lots of good food and good conversation. I saw a few people I hadn't seen since we graduated. Many thanks to the two ladies that masterminded this and everybody that helped make it a great ...

A man is facing charges in Woods County after he allegedly exposed himself to a woman in public. According to court documents, Alva police officers responded to the 600 block of Flynn in Alva for a ...

Taylor Munsell may as well have been born carrying a rope. When one is raised in the western Oklahoma hamlet of Arnett and in the Munsell clan, it’s just a way of life. “Team roping is what my ...

Graveside service for Ronald Lee Mapes will be 10 a.m., July 28, 2025, at Alva Municipal Cemetery with a memorial service to follow at 11 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church of Alva with ...

We read of a story in the Old Testament book of Jonah about how God calls him to perform what seemed to be an impossible task of preaching repentance to the capital city of the Assyrian Empire, ...