April 2022

LaVerne “Bobbie” Brandley, 99, surrounded by family at home, left her earthly life to meet her beloved Jesus in Heaven on April 9, 2022. Bobbie was born in 1923 in Minco, Oklahoma, the youngest of 10 children.

Funeral services for Terri L. Burleigh will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Benson Memorial Chapel, with burial following in the El Reno Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home. Terri died April 3, 2022, in El Reno. She was born Jan. 17, 1962, in Oklahoma City.

MARRIAGE LICENSES Garrison Andrew Kingery, 28; Alexis Brooke Busby, 23. Antone LaJuan Prince, 42; Jacquelyn Shunta Gordon, 37. Douglas Henry Cook, 53; Laurie Ann Brown, 52. Mason Allen Smith, 26; Kailee Nicole Graves, 22. Noah Cameron Webster, 24; Makenna Kamryn Burge, 22.

Losing both its battles with a strong south wind and Kingfisher, El Reno High School’s tennis teams dropped to 1-2 on the dual season with a 5-2 loss to the Yellowjackets. El Reno posted a 2-2 record on the girls side, losing both singles matches.

El Reno High School hosted a freshman tournament at Crimson Creek Golf Course last week with the Indians placing third with a nine-hole team score of 242.

Mayor Matt White told about 30 people Tuesday night he wasn’t going to ’tell them what they wanted to hear” concerning a planned drilling operation near their homes. “But I’m going to tell you the truth,” he said. “I’m not going to lie.”

When Steve Maddox approached the city council with the proposal of creating an El Reno Film Commission with $10,000 in start-up money, it seemed to be an idea whose time had come.

El Reno police took a man armed with a handgun into custody March 29 after he allegedly threatened people inside a home at 511 North R. Major Kirk Dickerson said police were called to the residence shortly before 10:30 a.m. after receiving reports a man with a firearm was involved in an...

Ross Seed Company was busy shuffling and watering plants in preparation for its Plant Daze sale which started Thursday and runs through Saturday.

El Reno hired a new firm to manage its water and wastewater operations. In a special city council meeting at noon on Tuesday, council voted 4-0 to hire Inframark to manage both systems. Councilman Peter Stapperfend was absent from the meeting.