El Reno VFW Post 382 and Auxiliary will host a free breakfast for all veterans and their families.
The event will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 4 at the VFW.
VFW State Service Officer James Dockemeyer will be the speaker. The purpose of the breakfast is to get new changes explained to veterans and their families.
Some of these changes veterans may not be aware of yet, said Nancy Salsman.
El Reno police were told to be on the lookout for a white vehicle driven by a white female with a black male passenger after the pair had allegedly robbed a convenince store west of El Reno.
The hold-up, police said, took place at mile marker 108 on I-40 at about 11:35 p.m. Feb. 19.
What police didn’t know until an officer spotted it was that the vehicle was traveling the wrong way along the I-40 loop just west of the Federal Correctional Institution.
A 27-year-old El Reno man remains in the Canadian County Jail while a first-degree murder case filed against him is in limbo, pending a March 20 hearing.
Kyler Wayne Barber is accused in the fatal stabbing of Adam Lee Frogge, 35, of Oklahoma City.
He faces a single count of first-degree murder with deliberate intent and is being held without bail.
Wayman LeRoy Smith, 80, passed away Feb. 8, 2023, at his home in Moore, surrounded by family.
LeRoy was preceded in death by his infant son; brother, Lonny Ray; father, Grady Wayman; and mother, Florence Estella Slate Smith.
SAN DIEGO - Petty Officer 2nd Class Cameron Wahweah, a native of El Reno, serves aboard the U.S. Navy warship, USS Boxer, home-ported in San Diego, Calif.
Wahweah, a 2018 El Reno High School graduate, joined the Navy two years ago. “I joined the Navy to travel,” said Wahweah.
“Eventually, I want to go back to school, and the Navy will help pay for my education.” Skills and values learned in the Navy are similar to those found in El Reno.
Canadian County CASA will hold a banquet, awards ceremony and auction on Thursday, March 30 beginning at 6 p.m.
The event will be held at the Dale Robertson Center, 1200 Lakeshore Drive, Yukon.
Tickets are $30 per person or $15 for CASA volunteers.
To purchase tickets, RSVP at 405-264-5508 or at dana@canadiancountycasa.org.
During practices leading up to the Class 5A West Region 3 Championships, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team spent extra time drilling long vertical passes to highlight its transition game.
The work paid off in the title game.
After defeating 14th-ranked Mount St. Mary 78-29 in the semifinals, El Reno used those long passes to pick apart 11th-ranked Guymon 79-37 to win the championship.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Reps. Mark McBride, R-Moore, and Rhonda Baker, R-Yukon, called on State Superintendent Ryan Walters to hire a chief financial officer for the Oklahoma State Department of Education immediately to take care of the needs of state public school students.
“With federal grant application deadlines looming, Oklahoma school superintendents are worried about having these critical dollars to continue to serve the needs of their students,” the lawmakers said in a joint statement.
A day removed from shooting under 40 percent, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team hit 56 percent of its shots from the 3-point arc en route to a 75-53 win over Mount St. Mary to win the Class 5A West Region 3 Championships.
“We take things game by game and play to our strengths. Our shots were not falling yesterday but this was a different day and different game. Our shots were falling today,” said guard Alex Elizondo.
When reviewing the more than 100 individuals inducted into the Oklahoma Educators Hall of Fame since 1985, Ruth Genevieve Hudson stands out — because Hudson, inducted in 1994, is one of the very few career classroom teachers to make the cut.
While Hudson spent 45 years primarily teaching music at Sand Springs, Tulsa and Blackwell Public Schools, as well as in the state of Kansas, her lengthy classroom service is in stark contrast to many of the other people honored in the educators hall.
