December 2021

Holding Hinton to single-digit scoring for three of the four periods, Calumet High School’s girls basketball team picked up back-to-back wins for the second time this season. The 56-28 win over the Comets lifted unranked Calumet to 4-4 on the season going into the Canton tourney.

For the first time since 2017, Calumet High School’s boys basketball team has two losses before the holiday break after Hinton stunned the state-ranked Chieftains 73-67. The loss dropped Calumet, which fell to No.8 in the latest Class A poll, to 6-2 on the season heading into the Canton tourney.

Redlands Community College women’s basketball team bounced back from its worst loss of the season to defeat Southern Nazarene University’s junior varsity squad 81-63. The non-conference win lifted the Cougars to 6-4 on the season. Redlands shot 38 percent in the win, hitting 30-of-79 shots.

In yet another high-scoring game, Redlands Community College men’s basketball team had its two-game win streak halted recently with an 89-72 loss to Dallas College North Lake.

El Reno VFW Post 382 and Auxiliary are partnering with Feed the Children to provide free groceries and hygiene products to local families. The event will be Friday, Dec. 10 from 1 to 3 p.m. outside the VFW, 1515 S. Rock Island.

Robert Edgar Monday Jr., also known as Bob, was an Aviation Radioman First Class for the U.S. Navy during World War II. A graduate of El Reno High School in 1936, he passed away on Nov. 11, 1944, due to a head injury sustained in an earlier incident while in the service. He was 26 years old.

A brisk north wind greeted the annual Christmas parade in downtown El Reno on Saturday. People lined Rock Island and Bickford as the El Reno High School Marching Band and the Heritage Express Trolley led the colorful parade.

El Reno High’s drama department turned the parking lot into its own Bedford Falls for a live radio broadcast of It’s a Wonderful Life last week.  

City Manager Matt Sandidge called the latest housing permit numbers issued for El Reno “impressive.” Community Development Director Shelly Dalla Rosa released the figures last week. With one month left in 2021, El Reno so far has issued 147 permits for new housing.

A new Canadian County district map has been finalized. State law requires all counties in Oklahoma to be divided into three districts “as equal in population as practical,” according to an amended resolution approving county commissioner district boundaries.