December 2022

Guard Carson Elliott hit a 3-pointer with just over two seconds left to catapult Choctaw past El Reno High School’s boys basketball team 56-55 in the championship game of the 50th Annual Harrah Panthers Classic.

Undefeated in dual meets, El Reno High School’s wrestling team proved it’s a salty tournament team as well following a fourth-place finish in the 2022 Mid-America Nationals. The field of 35 teams came from Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas and Utah.

Watching Julie Holdcraft work with her lab, Birdie, is like watching kids play the game “red light, green light.” Holdcraft, 18, keeps a whistle in her mouth while her dad or mom fling a hunk of rubber tied to a piece of rope as far as they can.

Organizers of a community Christmas dinner for members of the Oklahoma National Guard and their families called the event a “huge success.” “Our community certainly came together to make it happen,” said Nancy Salsman of the El Reno VFW Post 382.

In a partnership with Oklahoma Higher Ed, the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes will offer training in fiber optic installation to tribal members who are reintegrating into society after having served time in jail.

Family, friends, attorneys, fellow judges and district court personnel converged at the Canadian County Courthouse to bid farewell to Jack McCurdy II. The Yukon native has retired after 39 years in the legal profession, the last four as a Canadian County district judge.

Canadian County lawmen arrested Chase Berg, 21, of El Reno on complaints of being in possession of child pornography. The arrest was made Dec. 1 by deputies with the sheriff’s office.

A Yukon man was one of three victims of a Monday night plane crash at Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport near Yukon. David Lamb, 78, of Yukon was one of the passengers in a 1971 Beechcraft Bonanza F33A Aircraft operated by 53-year-old Christopher Lamb of Perry.

Students from Holy Trinity Catholic School in Okarche arrived in El Reno last week to help with food distribution at The Lord’s Harvest.

This surplus military watercraft made a stop in El Reno last week. According to the man hauling the craft, it has been used in the making of several movies including Seal Team 6 and GI Jane. Its destination was unknown.