June 2023

OKLAHOMA CITY — A discovery at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is paving a path toward a more accurate and less intrusive diagnosis of Sjögren’s disease, an autoimmune disorder affecting up to 4 million Americans.

Services for Debbra Jean Jaques will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, June 23 at Huber-Benson Funeral Home. Debbra died June 18, 2023, at Norman Regional Hospital. She was born June 10, 1959, in Oklahoma City.

Signing bonuses of as much as $50,000 are what Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters said is needed to attract new and retired teachers to the classroom. That’s also what makes his new bonus plan a risky policy.

MUSTANG – Having lost yet another doubleheader due to the lack of players by its opponent, El Reno High School’s Varsity 1 baseball team made its first road trip of the summer having played two games in eight days. The lack of diamond time showed.

LAWSUITS TD Bank USA N.A. vs. Davida McClellan for $3,515.46 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees. LVNV Funding LLC vs. Angelica Herrera for $1,907.27 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Lamplighters OHCE of Canadian County met recently at Mt. Zion Methodist Church. Carol Stine called the meeting to order and led in the Pledge of Allegiance, while also offering the devotional and prayer titled “Blessings to Come.”

What differentiates David Charles Grusch -- who claims that the U.S. government has in its possession “intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin” -- from previous people making similar claims? The big and obvious difference is that his back story seems to check out.

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned the unconstitutional right to an abortion, a devastating error from the Roe v. Wade ruling in 1972.

The El Reno Tribune was named one of nine divisional winners of the Sequoyah Award during voting in the Oklahoma Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest. The award was presented at the OPA’s annual convention held at the Grand Casino Hotel and Resort in Shawnee June 9-10.

City of El Reno worker Jacob Horn checks the water flow through a colorful array of plants in this planter he filled in the downtown area last week. The city uses a trailer equipped with a water tank to water all the different planters around El Reno each week.