October 2022

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes have received a $7 million grant from the USDA to help create a more climate-friendly way to raise bison. The award is from the 2022 Partnerships for Climate Change Commodities Grant.

El Reno Masonic Lodge #50 recently presented a check to the Redlands Community College Aggie Club for $10,417 to support the organization’s scholarship program for agriculture students.

A Canadian County Jail inmate already facing 12 years in prison for allegedly stealing a car and breaking into a house now faces five more years for allegedly punching a detention officer.

Funeral services for Marietta Cheryl Poe will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8 in the Benson Memorial Chapel with Pastor Mark Fryar officiating. Services are under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home. Marietta passed away Sept. 26, 2022, at her home in El Reno at the age of 77.

An exciting movement is under way in our nation. It is in accordance with former Sen. Tom Coburn’s final instructions to our nation, recorded in his last published book.

CHECOTAH ― Participants will have the opportunity to build their own Civil War-style wooden ammo crate on Saturday, Oct. 15 from 1 to 3 p.m. during a special make-and-take workshop at Honey Springs Battlefield.

Gary Gene Wagner, 64, of Watonga, passed away Sept. 26, 2022, in Amarillo, Texas. He was born Nov. 24, 1957, in Sentinel to John F. and Francis Leona Wagner.

El Reno High School’s football team will be facing a few new wrinkles brought on by this week’s District 5A-1 home game against Midwest City – first starting with the day.

While the play took only a few seconds to unfold, it seemed like a lifetime to El Reno High School linebacker Diante Palmer. “It was going in slow motion. I could see the ball coming into the end zone,” said Palmer.

It’s taken over four decades but Calumet High School’s baseball team has found its way back to the state baseball tourney after winning the Class B, Region 3 Championships.