Flipping the Frisbie, no shirt, coated with baby oil. That was the ‘70s and now the Boomers are paying for it. An article in AARP Magazine addresses the issue that “Skin Cancer is Trickier Than You ...

An Alva man was helping out a woman from Cherokee by loaning her a credit card for necessities like gas and groceries. But when his credit card was maxed out with other charges, he and his family ...

Have you ever paused to ponder what peace really is? When asked, most people say things like: “The absence of war,” “When there is no fighting,” “When everything is quiet.” None of these responses are ...

Rain caused delays in the 2025 harvest. However the hard, red winter wheat grown in the reading area of the Newsgram persevered. See some of the comments of area elevator operators that follow to give ...

Services are pending with Wharton Funeral Chapel. Online condolences may be made at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com. Billy Lee Ross, son of Sherry Lynn (Cunningham) and Billy Lee Ross was born on ...

I'm considering holding a few interim studies this year. One would focus on water conservation efforts. The last few years I've filed bills that would help us better measure commercial groundwater use ...

Graveside services for Kenneth Percival will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 2, 2025, at the Alva Municipal Cemetery with Pastor John Clapp officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Marshall ...

Phyllis Lorene Puffinbarger, age 88, passed away peacefully on Saturday, June 28, 2025, in Kiowa Kansas. Phyllis was born to Garfield and Bernice Ricker on October 10, 1936, in Anthony, Kansas. She ...

With a resignation announced last week, the Alva Public Schools are now taking applications for two custodian positions. Triston (TJ) Gluth has resigned as head custodian at Washington Early Childhood ...

Linda (Vincent Sharp) Martin, 82, passed away July 1, 2025, in Wichita, Kansas. Linda was born January 27, 1943, to Herman and Dorthy Vincent and raised on a farm near Jet, Oklahoma, alongside four ...

Alva Review-Courier archives search pageOct 19, 2016 Vertice Eugene Tucker entered into eternal rest on October 15, 2016, at the age of 84. He was born to Val Duncan Tucker and Hazel Emily Thomas ...