An open house last week was held to celebrate the new Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes El Reno Indian Health Center.
The 16,000-square-foot medical clinic on Parkview Drive is a partnership between the C&A and Indian Health Services. Capt. Joe Bryant of IHS was on hand as was C&A Gov. Reggie Wassana to welcome visitors to the spacious new clinic.
Tours were provided and refreshments were served. An official grand opening will be celebrated later.
Mayor Matt White didn’t announce his candidacy for the District 3 county commission seat at last week’s El Reno Now gathering. But he did say he is looking at possibly throwing his name into the mix.
The filing period opens April 13 and ends on Friday, April 15.
Current District 3 Commissioner Jack Stewart chose to seek a new Senate seat in Yukon, leaving the door open for a new face on the three-member commission.
Marc Hader, District 1 commissioner, has drawn an opponent in Tom Manskey.
Luke Cooper is a strong advocate for foster care. Without it, he said, he would probably be “either dead or in jail.”
Cooper, 38, made the comment at last week’s El Reno Now gathering.
Hosted by Mayor Matt White and School Superintendent Craig McVay, the monthly event started up again this month after being on but mostly off again thanks in part to the COVID pandemic.
El Reno water customers will be getting a notice in the mail concerning an issue that occurred in May of last year at the water treatment plant.
City Manager Matt Sandidge said the city is required by the Department of Environmental Quality to notify the community of the incident.
Sandidge said the contractor hired to manage the treatment plant did not notify the DEQ within a required 24-hour period after excess air leaked into the water system. He said the extra oxygen posed no threat to the public.
Statewide election activity officially begins at 8 a.m. Wednesday, April 13 when the filing period opens, Wanda Armold, secretary of the Canadian County Election Board said.
Candidates for state offices file with the secretary of the state election board. Candidates for county offices file with the secretary of the county election board.
Armold said the following offices are expected to be filled this year:
An inmate at the Canadian County Jail could face charges after allegedly setting a mattress on fire.
Sheriff Chris West said the inmate “somehow” was able to set the mattress in his cell on fire Sunday evening.
The fire caused smoke alarms to go off and led to one detention officer being treated for smoke inhalation. West said there were no other injuries reported and damage, other than the mattress, was limited to smoke.
The El Reno Fire Department responded to the scene and was able to contain the smoke.
A plan to spend some $150,000 to replace the roof on the historic Canadian County Jail moved a step closer to reality.
County commissioners voted 3-0 last week to approve a partial release of a lease between Canadian County and Preservation El Reno Inc. for the old county jail building at the corner of Rogers and Evans.
When the New York Post broke its “Hunter Biden Laptop” stories in October 2020, mainstream media tried to ignore it.
On the social media side, Twitter banned linking to them and Facebook used its algorithm to minimize discussion of them pending “fact checks” that apparently never happened.
The Streisand Effect -- a tendency toward keen public interest in anything that looks like a cover-up -- came to the rescue.
If you were the least bit interested in presidential politics, you knew as much as you wanted to about the matter (and then some) in short order.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Mark Vancuren, R-Owasso, secured passage of a bill that would make an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) available for school employees, mirroring what is currently available to all state employees.
House Bill 4109 would create an Education EAP within the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
Early in the morning on March 24, 2022, Patsy Ruth Creed of El Reno entered her new life in heaven. She is surrounded by her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, her brothers, Jack and Mark, sister, Mary, her mother, Ruby Mae, and her beloved grandmother, Mrs. W.B. Woolard.
Patsy was born in Durant on July 10, 1941. Her mother, Ruby Mae Woolard, passed away early in life. Patsy, along with her brothers and sister, were raised in the Baptist Children’s Home in Waxahachie, Texas.
