Rose Witcher is thrilled to welcome you to the 2023-2024 school year. We are working hard preparing the school for another wildly fun year.
The teachers and staff of Rose Witcher are eager to begin the school year. We are passionate about ensuring each student’s achievement and aim to inspire excellence.
Students need many different supplies to help them move to the head of the class. Teachers frequently post lists online before school begins or advise students in the early days of the new year. Therefore, parents may want to wait to go back-to-school shopping until they learn what’s needed. There is one piece of gear, however, that students will definitely need: a backpack.
Welcome to the 2023-24 school year at Hillcrest Learning Center.
We are super excited to have “groovy” learners and share some “groovy” memories as students begin their learning journey at Hillcrest. We are enthusiastic and ready to start another year to ensure every student’s achievement and inspire excellence.
Our staff has been busy preparing our school to meet our groovy Head Start, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students.
An all-night wake for Phillip Keith Redbird was held Thursday. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 11 at the Concho Emergency Response Center. Burial will follow in the Concho Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.
Phillip died Aug. 4, 2023, at Integris Southwest Medical Center in Oklahoma City.
He was born Jan. 7, 1992, in Kingfisher. He lived most of his life in Oklahoma City.
Funeral services for Robert Earl “Bob” Vincent, 80-year-old El Reno resident, will be held Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, at 2 p.m. at Sickles Community Church with Tom Clifton officiating. Burial will follow in Eakly Cemetery under the direction of Lockstone Funeral Home of Weatherford.
Bob was born Dec. 10, 1942, in Weatherford to Lige Thomas and Katie Lee (Herron) Vincent. He passed away Monday, Aug. 7, 2023, at SSM St. Anthony Healthplex west of El Reno.
In Kirby Woolard’s backyard on his El Reno property, he has built his own 48-inch, horizontal sawmill.
He cuts a lot of wood these days.
A large cedar tree trunk waited to be turned into the boards needed for a pergola on a mid-July day.
Woolard’s Next Level Pergolas are made from the wood he saws into lumber to use.
It is hard work too, but his supply is ready for building about two pergolas a week. A pergola provides shade and a canopy from elements that cover backyard patios.
Kirby and his wife, Morgan are in the busy summer season.
The filing period for El Reno City Council Ward 1 and Ward 4 elections is Aug. 28 to Aug. 30, said Canadian County Election Board officials. Candidates can file at the election board in downtown El Reno from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Amy Neathery is the current Ward 1 council representative. Ward 4 is currently represented by Dr. Brian Schafer. Both were appointed to fill unexpired terms.
Both Neathery and Schafer said they plan to file for the election which will be decided in November.
The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes cut the ribbon officially opening the new expanded Emergency Youth Shelter.
The first tribal youth shelter was opened by the tribes in 1991. Sophie Burgess was the houseparent on-site.
More than 30 years later, Burgess witnessed the opening of the new youth shelter, where she continues to serve as the houseparent on-site.
Four-year-old Donna Franklin of El Reno runs through a wall of water while cooling off in the downtown splash pad recently.
After several days of triple-digit heat, temperatures are forecasted to cool slightly into the 90-degree range with storms possible over the weekend.
