Banner geography bee
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Select students in fourth through eighth grades competed in the Banner School Geography Bee. Seven students won their individual classrooms geography bee and earned the privilege to compete in the
January 2020
EHS Students of the Month - December 2019
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El Reno High School December Students of the Month, from left, freshmen Kira Taber and David Coffman; sophomores Monserrath Gallegos and Hayden Pugh; juniors Kenzie Holsted and Savaughn Watkins (not
Canadian County to host blood drive in honor of El Reno woman
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For some people, the perfect Valentine’s gift would be a few units of blood. Canadian County is sponsoring a blood drive called “You’re Somebody’s Blood Type.” This will be the
El Reno holds final Route to the Future Open House
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The fourth and final Route to the Future Open House was held Thursday at Wesley United Methodist Church. About a dozen people showed up to see what was going on,
Bye, bye bank?
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Union City residents have been notified that plans are in the works to possibly level the Richardson Building, known as the old Bank Building. School Superintendent Todd Carel said the
Flowing along
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El Reno is entering Phase 2 of some major drainage work.
A new Community Development Block Grant was accepted by the city recently which means $105,000 in federal money was received, boosting to $650,000 as funding for the new project.
Over the past year, the city has employed contractors to improve the drainage system near Legion Park and Sunset.
Neighborhoods in that area have seen significant flooding in the past, and the new work was intended to make the drainage systems more effective.
Back to state
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El Reno High School’s wrestling team is going home.
One of the state’s prolific programs for more than a decade in the mid-1990s to 2000s snapped an 11-year hiatus away from the Class 5A Dual State Championships Thursday with a 44-36 win over No.6 Lawton MacArthur.
El Reno, ranked No.7 in the state, won the 2020 Class 5A, District 4 Championship with the win over the Highlanders and a 58-16 defeat of Carl Albert. Ardmore forfeited to all three teams.
Sharon Williams
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Funeral services for Sharon Sue Williams of Maysville were held Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, at Winans Funeral Home Chapel in Maysville with Brother Aaron Hembree officiating. Burial was in the Maysville Cemetery under the direction of John W. Williams of Winans Funeral Home.
Cecil Hill
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Funeral services for Cecil F. Hill of El Reno were held Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2020, in the Wilson Funeral Home Chapel.
Mr. Hill passed peacefully on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, at Mercy Heart Hospital. Cecil was born July 7, 1940, to Norman and Goldia Hill in Casa, Ark.
He was a retired railroad worker, a true patriot, an avid hunter and fisherman, and a loving husband, father and grandfather.
Lylith Lanigan
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Funeral services for Lylith Faye Beaver Lanigan will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Concho Community Hall with burial in the El Reno Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.
Lylith, daughter of Dale and Eva (Roman Nose) Beaver, was born Sept. 30, 1939, in Clinton. She was a homemaker and lived in California for many years before returning to Oklahoma in 1981.
