February 2023

El Reno High School’s Carter Roman Nose made a pair of game-changing plays in the final two and a half minutes which helped the Indians become the first Class 5A team to defeat Carl Albert this season.

Double-digit scoring in all four periods helped Calumet High School’s boys basketball team extend its win streak to 21 straight games as the Chieftains defeated Carney 88-48 to win the Class B, Area 1, District 1 Championship.

Okarche High School’s girls basketball team reached the 20-win plateau for a second straight year with a 58-24 win over Canton in the title game of the Class A, Area 2, District 5 Championship.

Three candidates for an El Reno School Board seat fielded questions, some prepared in advance and others from the audience, at a forum last week leading up to the Feb. 14 primary election.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two Canadian County school leaders traveled to the nation’s capital to attend an Advocacy for Public Schools Conference and Educational Equity Symposium.

Canadian County restaurant owners - along with local leaders and residents - want voters to decide whether the county’s 38-year-old Sunday alcoholic beverage sales restriction should be removed. Since 1985, the sale of liquor by the drink before 2 p.m. on Sunday has been prohibited in the county.

Canadian County commissioners have been asked to call an election on proposed changes to the county’s liquor rules restricting Sunday sales. But commissioners are limited on when such an election can be called for voters to decide the issue.

Special donations were made to three local nonprofits in honor of Margaret “Sue” Terneus, former El Reno Public Schools special education teacher. Terneus died Dec. 25, 2021. Sue was an EHS special education teacher for more than 20 years.

Joyce A. Lee passed away peacefully in her sleep the morning of February 2 in El Reno at River Oaks Skilled Nursing & Therapy. Joyce was born to Carl and Ada (Baker) Boyer on May 8, 1942, in Geary, Okla. She was the oldest of four daughters.

Kathryn (Kathy) Louise Havener was born Sept. 23, 1955, at Kingfisher Regional Hospital to Joseph Irwin Farrell and Betty Lou Farrell. She passed away Feb. 7, 2023, in Oklahoma City. Kathy was the middle child of four brothers, Greg, Mark, Jeff and James Farrell.