October 2021

To the Editor: On Oct. 7, 1948, a beautiful fall day, my mom, grandmother, our dog, Bootsie, and myself came up over the top of the north overpass from Herington, Kan., in a 1939 Plymouth loaded down and ready for a new life. I thought El Reno was the most beautiful little town I had ever seen.

One of the great myths of politics is that the policy stances of medical associations reflect the views of most doctors. But that claim is being dispelled more and more as medical associations continue to take political stances far afield from the mainstream of society.

Sitting at 0-5 on the season and coming off back to back District 5A-1 setbacks, El Reno High School’s football team is in desperate need of a mark in the win column. And it doesn’t matter who its against said head coach Chuck Atchison. “We want a win period.

El Reno High School’s volleyball team took over sole possession of third place in the Suburban Conference standings last week with a 3-0 road win over Del City. The 25-6/25-16/25-16 victory over the Eagles lifted El Reno to 2-2 in the league standings.

Take away two defensive breakdowns and Etta Dale’s seventh-grade football team would have had a total domination of the Guthrie Bluejays on both sides of the football last week.

LAWSUITS Ajax Mortgage Loan Trust vs. Gerald Keith Hall for $83,736.14 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 2, Block 6, Ranchwood South Addition, Yukon.

What started out as a promising sight quickly turned to a disastrous first period as El Reno High School's football team dug itself a hole in which the Indians could not climb out from Friday night in a 49-8 loss to Lawton MacArthur.

The first El Reno Community Day and Fly-In was hailed as a “great event.” That 2020 celebration of El Reno and aviation attracted an estimated 2,000 people to the El Reno Regional Airport.

Jason Gipson was 23 years old when he spent a year as a U.S. Army Infantryman in Iraq. That was in 2004. Today, Gipson is 40. He has a wife and daughter. He also has nightmares. That’s why he’s very thankful to have Dale.

A 13-year-old Maple School student was airlifted to OU Medical Center Monday after the school bus he was riding in ran off the road and into a ditch.