March 2021

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.