August 2022

Following the recommendations of the Municipal Authority, the El Reno City Council held a special meeting last week to approve three agenda items which totaled nearly $470,000.

After battling triple-digit heat last week for marching practice, El Reno High School band members cooled off with water fights.

Canadian County commissioners are in the process of hiring a new emergency management director. Andrew Skidmore recently resigned as Canadian County’s emergency manager and safety coordinator, a post he had held since September 2018.

“Hope in the City” is coming to First Assembly of God in El Reno. The church is partnering with 19 other churches and organizations in the area to distribute a total of 5,000 backpacks filled with school supplies.

Roberta Mae Shelley Grulkey, 87, was born in El Reno to Roy R. Shelley and Ollie Lee Lawson Shelley on Aug. 28, 1934, and passed away at her home on July 28, 2022. Roberta was a lifetime resident and 1954 graduate of El Reno High School.

A pair of El Reno High School’s key players over the past two seasons wrapped up their prep careers the same way they started it together – in the win column.

Oklahoma schools have received millions of dollars in annual funding to teach English to bilingual students who have already mastered the language, apparently allowing schools to inflate their budgets without providing extra services, a state watchdog agency has found.

Funeral services for Rhoda Mae Youngbird Braxton were held Monday at the Emergency Response Center in Concho. Burial followed at Concho Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home. Rhoda died July 27, 2022, at her home in Kingfisher. She was born May 9, 1941, in Concho.

El Reno High School’s softball team kicked off its preseason scrimmage schedule last week at home against Rush Springs. El Reno is slated to host Union City in a scrimmage this week in preparation for the season opener Aug. 8 against Yukon.