February 2022

In a rather stunning outcome, Union City High School’s girls basketball team dropped a 35-29 decision to Gracemont in the fifth-place game of the 2022 Washita Valley Conference Shootout, hosted by Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

The score was a head-turner considering Union City had defeated the Lions by 25 points in the regular-season conference meeting and was riding a two-game win streak into the shootout.

Gracemont, meanwhile, had won only three games this season and only once since the turn of the new year.

Charles Brandley, 79, passed away Feb. 4, 2022, going to his heavenly reward, surrounded by loved ones in his home on the farm where he was raised.

Charles dedicated his life to God and his church, his family and friends, his community and the family farm.

A third-generation native of El Reno, Charles was born Aug. 13, 1942, to Vernon and Laverne “Bobbie” (Johnson) Brandley.

Scott Allen Bollinger went to be with his heavenly Father on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022.

He was born Aug. 23, 1952, in El Reno to TJ and Alice Bollinger. He is the younger of two children, brother to Sandra. Scott resided in Union City and was 69 years of age. He married his wife, Martha on Nov. 23, 1973.

He was preceded in death by his mother and father, one unborn child, and a granddaughter in heaven.

Scott is survived by his wife and their 11 children, Kari, Kory, Karli, Kayli, Kami, Kolby, Kynzi, Kyler, Kwyn, Kade and Kolton.

LAWSUITS

Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC vs. Tyler H. Due for $1,855.92 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC vs. Amelia J. Snyder for $3,882.97 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Synchrony Bank vs. Geoff Pirtle for $4,770.67 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

TD Bank USA N.A. vs. Jeffrey K. Covey for $1,553.85 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

With the Omicron variant fueling January’s surge in COVID-19 cases both in Canadian County and across Oklahoma, residents received a break in finding those elusive at-home test kits.

The United States Postal Service has begun delivering the first batch of the test kits to Americans who placed an order on the national website COVIDTests.gov.

The use of the at-home method is promising to help take the burden off hospital emergency rooms and doctors offices that have been swamped with residents seeking coronavirus testing.

El Reno was hit by its second winter mix of 2022.

The city was covered with several inches of snow as temperatures stayed in the single digits to low teens through Thursday.

Randy Hurst has been awarded the Oklahoma Music Educators Association (OkMEA) President’s Award. The presentation came at a Jan. 20 ceremony that was a part of the OkMEA Winter Conference held at the DoubleTree in downtown Tulsa.

El Reno police arrested a man after he was found to allegedly be in possession of numerous illegal drugs, several stolen driver’s licenses and credit cards as well as a U.S. passport reported stolen in Ardmore and Marietta as well as in Gainsville and Muenster, Texas. 

Police said Casey Bradbury was found shortly after 2 a.m. on Jan. 17  “passed out” in a Chevrolet pickup parked in front of a closed energy business on SH 66. Police said Bradbury told them he lived in Ardmore.

The Canadian County Children’s Justice Center has created a support group intended to help those grandparents who find themselves raising grandchildren.

Legislative redistricting has created a new State Senate district that will cover much of Yukon. Oklahoma Senate District 18 will officially move from eastern Oklahoma.

The district’s revised boundaries will include a significant part of the Yukon area and Oklahoma City in eastern Canadian County and Bethany and Woodlawn Park in western Oklahoma County.

Senate District 18 will include most of Yukon city limits, except for south of Interstate 40 and west of Mustang Road.