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Rod and Cindy Smith Announce Retirement
On April 14, Rod Smith will retire as minister of music of First Baptist Church in Altus. He has served there for 32 years. Rod and wife Cindy Smith came to First Baptist Church in 1981 from their hometown of Dallas, Texas. Before coming to Altus, Rod served as a music and preaching evangelist from 1970 to 1981. He has preached and sung in over 1,000 revivals, crusades, and concerts. Bro. Rod holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dallas Ba...
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Construction plans signed for Navajoe Road
Jackson County Commissioners signed plans to begin road construction on Navajoe Road in Altus, in their regular meeting 9 a.m., Monday, April 8, in the Commissioners’ Office of the Jackson County Courthouse. Commissioners also approved Oklahoma Department of Transportation Plans to pave a three mile stretch on Navajoe Road beginning at SH 19 and extending South to County Rd 157. The road will be paved 22 feet wide with a three foot gravel sho...
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School board revises facilities use policies
The Altus Public School District Board of Education held their regular meeting Monday, April 8, in the Conference Room of the Administration building to discuss items on the agenda. During the meeting, the Board approved to revise two school policies concerning the use of school property and facilities, which will increase costs for outside groups seeking to use the school for an activity. The new policies state that a certified employee mu...
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First meeting of Board of Freeholders to be held Monday to begin process of penning a City Charter
In Tuesday’s election, Altus voters cast 1,028 ballots for, and 438 against the proposition for a Charter form of government. The vote does not necessarily mean that Altus will go to a Charter form of government, but simply means that the freeholders elected will now work together to pen a charter to go before the people for a vote. Their first meeting will be held Monday. Those elected to serve 90-day terms as Freeholders are, for Ward One...
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School Board meeting set for Monday
The Altus School Board will meet in regular session Monday at 5 p.m. in the conference room of the administration building. The Superintendent’s reports and comments will include the OSSBA District 11 meeting. Claims will then be approved, before addressing the consent agenda. Consent agenda items include budget expenditures, activity funds, cafeteria funds, career tech programs, the CLEP plan and the National Math and Science Initiative gr...
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KC‑46A tanker scoping meeting set for Tuesday
ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. - The United States Air Force is scheduled to hold a public drop-in open house scoping meeting Tuesday, April 9 at the Southwest Technology Center from 5 to 8 p.m. The purpose of this meeting is to solicit comments on the proposed beddown of KC‑46A tanker aircraft, associated infrastructure and manpower for the Formal Training Unit (FTU) and the First Main Operating Base (MOB 1) at existing active duty Air F...
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Mayor to appoint MAPS Facilities Committee
The Altus Municipal Authority and City Council will hold their regular meeting at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 9, in Council Chambers of the Municipal Complex. They will consider items on the consent agenda. The City Council has been invited to attend a briefing on Monday, April 8, at 1:30 to discuss items on the April 9, agenda, but no vote or action will be taken at that time. During the regular meeting, the AMA will consider to award bid #9...
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Granite woman injured in motorcycle accident
Lisa Peters, 50, of Granite, was taken by Greer County EMS to Jackson County Memorial Hospital early Saturday morning after a motorcycle accident on North CR 1440 2/10 miles south of SH 9 in Kiowa County. According to reports, Peters was south bound on North CR 1440 on a 2004 Honda motorcycle when she failed to negotiate a curve, overturning the cycle to it’s side, impacting the roadway. The vehicle came to rest in the ditch. Peters was a...
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Alexander gets 35 years for molestation
District Judge Brad Benson, in Greer County District Court, sentenced Andrew Edward Alexander, 50, to 35 years in prison Thursday. Alexander, of Mangum, had been found guilty of Lewd Molestation of an 11-year-old female on May 2, 2011, in Mangum where he lived with the girl’s mother. The mother came home from a trip to the doctor to find the girl crying in the bathroom with the lights off, and the defendant hiding behind the shower curtain....
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Wheat freeze inspection meeting set for county producers
Jackson County wheat producers experienced another blow to their already struggling wheat crop this past week with an April freeze. Temperatures in Jackson County got down to 17-22 0 F the mornings of March 25 and 26 for several hours. These temperatures were low enough to have caused damage to the county wheat crop given its stage of development. At this writing (4-6-13), I have inspected 18 wheat fields from south east, south central, centr...
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SWTC instructor to study abroad
Southwest Technology Center BioMedical Sciences instructor, Stacey Davis, was selected as a Fund for Teachers grant recipient to participate in the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and European Conference on Computational Biology in Berlin, Germany this July. Davis, along with fellow BioMedical Sciences instructor, Renee Tanner, from Tri County Technology Center will head to Germany and learn a multitude of information t...
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AIS assistant principal killed in tragic accident
Frederick “Rick” James Roop, of Altus, was tragically killed in an accident at the Tillman Producers Co-Op Fertilizer Plant in Frederick Thursday. According to reports from Frederick Chief of Police Joel Neely, officers were called to the facility at about 6:27 p.m. to assist Tillman County Ambulance Service with a person who had fallen from a railroad grain car and was unresponsive. Roop was found lying on his back between two train tracks, ...
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Entries being taken for 1st annual Battle of the Bands
Something new is coming to town with this year’s 15th annual Rock and Rumble Car Show and Cruise - a Battle of the Bands contest. The event will take place on Friday night, May 3, starting at 6 p.m. Contenders will vie for the top five spots that will be competing for a $500 prize. Five finalist bands will compete to take home the killer $500 cash prize and be known as the hottest rock band in Southwest Oklahoma, and YOU will choose the win...
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Networking Breakfast to feature Made in Oklahoma speaker
It’s “All About Connections” with this free business networking breakfast on April 17, geared toward women business owners and entrepreneurs. The breakfast will be held from 7:45 to 9 a.m. at the Southwest Technology Center, 711 West Tamarack Road in Altus. Registration is requested and may be made online at www.reiwbc.org . The quarterly Business Connections breakfast allows entrepreneurs to network, market their businesses, obtain re...
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