Tea towels may very well help preserve the first mural painted in downtown El Reno. And possibly help create some more.
The El Reno Chamber of Commerce and the Main Street program are partnering in an effort to preserve the mural created by the late Charlie Beecham.
Beecham painted the History of El Reno mural in the early 1980s. It can be seen above the MidFirst Bank drive-thru on Woodson, between Rock Island and Bickford.
Redlands Community College will again be on the front lines of the state’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, after hosting Canadian County’s first large-scale shot portals earlier this year.
Redlands has partnered with Indian Health Service to offer vaccines to both its student body as well as its college employees. The first pod will be Friday, April 2, with a follow-up pod set for April 30.
Redlands students and employees wishing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 on those dates must register online.
El Reno Live focused on the upcoming Burger Day festival and included applause for the Indian Health Service and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes for helping to vaccinate area residents against COVID-19.
Mayor Matt White and Main Street Director Shana Ford were joined by Morgan Schwarz, owner of Hot Mess Station in the weekly program that airs live on the city’s Facebook site.
WASHINGTON -- The House used Women’s History Month to serve as the backdrop for passing legislation to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act and to remove the 1982 deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
House Democratic women dressed in suffragette white to commemorate the occasion and to usher through what they say are landmark pieces of legislation to advance women's rights.
WASHINGTON — Tribes in Oklahoma are both hopeful and anxious as they wait for the funds and spending rules from the American Rescue Plan that President Joe Biden signed last week.
Native American tribes nationwide will receive more than $31 billion as part of the American Rescue Plan, the largest one-time investment to Native American communities in history.
However, the amount of money set to be given to Oklahoma tribes on an individual basis is largely unknown and likely will be until further tribal consultation has occurred.
OKLAHOMA CITY - Woodward slipped three goals past Kinley Golden and one by Krystiana Guzman as the Boomers edged out El Reno High School’s girls soccer team 4-3 in a shootout for third place in the 2021 Northwest Classen Invitational.
The Boomers win on penalty kicks gave Woodward the match by a 5-4 score as El Reno slipped to 4-2 on the season. The Indians went 1-2 in the tourney, held at Taft Stadium, beating the host team 3-0 before losing in the semifinals to Edmond Memorial, 5-1.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Tough defense from three straight opponents kept El Reno High School’s boys soccer team off the scoreboard and out of the win column in the 2021 Northwest Classen Invitational.
El Reno dropped matches to the host Knights (3-0), Yukon (2-0) and Woodward (1-0) to slip to 1-6 on the season heading into this week’s District 5A-1 opener with Southeast.
In the setbacks to the Millers and Woodward, El Reno had only seven total shots. Edgar Garcia, Angel Martinez and Cohlton Fertig had two shots each and Christian Diaz added one shot.
Putting up eight runs in the fourth inning, El Reno High School’s baseball team completed the 2021 Washita Valley Invitational with an 8-4 win over Fletcher in bracket play.
The win over Class A’s 11th-ranked Wildcats gave El Reno a 2-2 record for the event. The Indians defeated Lawton 7-6 with two runs in the top of the eighth inning.
The losses were to Bridge Creek (6-5) and Class A’s second-ranked Fort Cobb-Broxton (8-0).
The split of the four-game set left El Reno with a 5-6 season record.
With only one player on the roster having any varsity experience, El Reno High School’s girls golf team has been going through some early-season growing pains.
“I’m proud of the girls for keeping with it and having a good attitude, especially for not having practice for two weeks. We’re going to keep getting better and that is our motto,” said head coach Sarah Brower.
El Reno opened the season at the Weatherford Invitational, placing eighth out of 12 teams with a team score of 472. Shane Castrop and Madi Patswald tied for the team’s low score with duplicate 116s.
Redlands Community College’s baseball team suffered its first two losses in NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 action last week, dropping home games to Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa.
The 14-11 and 8-3 setbacks dropped the Cougars to 6-14 on the season and last in the league standings at 0-2.
Redlands batted .281 for the twinbill, belting out 18 hits leading to 14 runs.
The team had 15 walks but struck out 20 times,
