School

In May, many members were involved in County and District Food Showdown and Cupcake Wars. At the county level in the Junior Division, Owen Bellamy, Maddox Morgan, and Wyatt Morgan placed  second; Rylee Sims and Garrett Sims tied with Morgan Matzke and Savelina Ofiu for 3rd place. In the Intermediate division, Emma Schubach and Rebecka…

The Cherokee High School Auditorium will be the site for the 2021 Miss Cherokee, Miss Cherokee High and Junior Miss Cherokee pageants, featuring 13 contestants. The contest will start at 7 p.m. Aug. 5. The auditorium is located at Sixth Street and Massachusetts. This year there will be three crowns handed out. The first is…

Farmerettes OHCE Group held their July meeting in the home of Terri Woods.  President Elisa Crowder called the meeting to order and led in the Flag Salute.  Cheryl Poe gave the devotional “Solomon’s Request” with emphasis on wisdom and a final thought “Imitate the Life of Jesus.” Thirteen members answered the Roll Call Question, “Name…

Area seniors were awarded scholarships from the Alfalfa County Conservation District. L to R: Kelly Fanning, District Manager, Dane Wilber, Vice-Chair, Kacie Eshleman, Drake Williams, Joel Pecha, Kale Campbell, Neal Gordon, Secretary, and Scott Cormack, Chairman.

Heather Gottsch, Cherokee FCCLA Adviser, is one of 13 honorees across the nation selected by Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) to receive the 2020-2021 Adviser Mentor Award. FCCLA honored all Adviser Mentor Award recipients during the Hybrid National Leadership Conference, June 27-July 2, 2021, in Nashville, TN. The FCCLA Adviser Mentor program…

The University of Central Oklahoma recently announced the students named to the university’s honor rolls, a distinction given to those who achieve the highest academic standards. For the spring 2021 semester, 1,479 students were named to the President’s Honor Roll, an honor achieved by those who recorded a “straight-A” or 4.0 GPA. Jacey Jantzen, Cherokee,…

Around 75 campers across Oklahoma recently graduated from the SAGE STEAM Camp held at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford. The Southwest Alliance for Girls’ Enrichment (SAGE) in Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts/Humanities, and Mathematics (STEAM) Camp was a weeklong, residential summer camp hosted on SWOSU’s campus for girls who are entering the eighth and…

Alec Tidwell, left, and Lucas Heim, right, both received superior ratings (I) on their piano solos at the Seiling Music Festival. Tidwell also received a superior rating at Tri-State. Both are students of Nita Cox.

Josh Rauch, Aline-Cleo Junior, has been awarded his Oklahoma Department of Welding 3G Certification.  His Northwest Technology welding instructor is JP Parker.