December 2021

On Tuesday, hundreds of visitors from Oklahoma and across the United States gathered at the USS Oklahoma Memorial to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Three well-spaced offensive runs helped El Reno High School’s girls basketball team, ranked third in the first Class 5A poll of the season, keep Shawnee at bay in a battle of top 10 teams.

Oklahoma State came within inches of winning the Big 12 Championship over the weekend but was turned away 21-16 by Baylor.

While the majority of its scoring came from closer to the basket, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team had four first-half shots from the perimeter which were game-changers.

El Reno High School’s wrestling team continued its tough season-opening run through the cream of the crop in Class 6A, losing 54-16 last week to Edmond North, ranked third in the state. El Reno, ranked second in Class 5A in the first tournament rankings of the season, slipped to 0-2.

Though you won’t be able to see them, dinosaurs will be walking the streets of El Reno. Filming for a Lionsgate live-action movie titled “The Adventures of Jurassic Pets: The Lost Secrets” is set to begin in downtown El Reno and other locations around the city Dec. 18.

Rev. Aaron Kotila arrived in El Reno in September of 2020. The new pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church got here just in time to experience a crippling ice storm in October as well as the lingering and at times, devastating local effects of COVID-19.

Work on the new City of El Reno Christmas Tree shifted into high gear last week as well as work on all the holiday decorations around Petree Plaza. The 23-foot pre-lit artificial tree was assembled off a base that is secured into the ground and can be taken down after the holidays.  

Calumet cheerleaders wore pink shirts and used pink pom-poms, while players wore pink warm-up shirts. The district was taking part in the nationwide Coaches Versus Cancer Drive.

The 2021 wheat harvest yields top the charts in many fields throughout Oklahoma. The 2022 crop looks very promising for area wheat farmers.