September 2023

Each step Johnny Hensley took across the parade grounds at Fort Reno was like a step back in time.

The Oklahoma Transportation Commission next week is expected to consider hiring a contractor to construct a permanent upgrade to the State Highway 66/Banner Road intersection.

Hundreds gathered at Fort Reno for the opening ceremony of the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall. The wall was greeted with sunshine and a U.S. flag that waved in the breeze far above the parade grounds where the wall was set up.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Rhonda Baker, R-Yukon, will examine potential updates to Oklahoma’s graduation requirements and student pathways to meeting those requirements in an upcoming interim study before the House Common Education Committee, which she chairs.

Canadian County’s elected officials are considering adding Juneteenth to the county’s holiday calendar. Juneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates the emancipation of African American slaves.

A Yukon woman has been sentenced to prison for her part in an armed robbery at a truck stop in far west Canadian County. Hilary Ebera Iannuccilli, 56, recently pleaded no contest to second-degree robbery, conspiracy and trafficking in illegal drugs.

Services for Mary Isabel Hanneman will be held Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, at 2 p.m. in the Huber-Benson Funeral Home Chapel. Isabel entered heaven on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, in Norman with her children by her side.

There’s an old saying that you don’t really appreciate something until you don’t have it anymore. We all know that to be true in our personal life with each loss of a lifelong friend or family member. It’s no secret many newspapers in the United States have closed in recent years.

Joe William McComas passed from this life on Sept. 23, 2023, in El Reno. He was born Dec. 25, 1928, to Grover and Mabel (Jensen) McComas on the farm west of Minco. Joe attended Minco schools, graduating in 1947. He married Arlene (Sis) Feddersen on July 14, 1950, in Union City.

OKLAHOMA CITY – A date has been set for Rep. Ross Ford’s interim study on finding ways to better assist domestic violence victims and to address the generational impact of such abuse.