September 2021

The new Rock Island overpass will be officially opened on Sept. 24. That’s when a ribbon-cutting ceremony is set. The dedication is planned for 2 p.m. The structure is open to traffic now, but some finishing touches are expected to take a few more days.

A two-and half hour special meeting of the El Reno School Board last week focused on training members in the proper methods to conduct the search for the district’s next superintendent.

A semi reportedly struck this pole at a former convenience store on Rock Island, just south of Wade last weekend. Security video from Rock Island Credit Union shows the truck striking the pole around 12:30 a.m. on Saturday. Calls to the number posted on the vacant building were not returned.

A fight injured a half dozen inmates early Monday at the Canadian County Jail after a power outage, Sheriff Chris West said. Shortly after 2 a.m. Monday, Sept. 6, members of the Canadian County Special Operations Team were activated to assist with an altercation in the county jail.

Etta Dale Junior High teacher Chip Whitworth discusses with his students a video shot in 2001 of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center Towers in New York City.

Blades of wheat, identified by a local farmer as tall stocks of Johnson grass, seem to hug the setting sun next to empty farmland just southwest of Calumet High School’s baseball field.

It’s happening at big box chain stores and locally-owned markets. After the rush of panic buying a year ago, a few empty shelves still haunt grocery stores, and food costs continue to climb.   

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Nicole Miller, R-Edmond, hosted an interim study to examine Oklahoma’s existing expungement system and potential avenues to further reform in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Gross Receipts to the Treasury in August grew by almost 20 percent over the year with a rebounding fossil fuel industry leading the way, State Treasurer Randy McDaniel said last week.

The Canadian County Association for Oklahoma Home and Community Education (OHCE) raffled off two quilts at the Canadian County Fair. The winners were Patsy Shropshire of El Reno and Cora Hart of Yukon. The quilts were made using the blocks from the 2019 Quilt Block Challenge Contest.