December 2023

As we approach the joyous holiday season, we find ourselves reflecting on the incredible achievements of our students and the remarkable strides our academic community has made.

Three cheers to Gov. Kevin Stitt for walking back a decision to apply for a new private school tax credit program that he championed just months ago. At the very least, it’s a bad look for a millionaire to apply for a tax credit that GOP lawmakers promised would help poorer families.

COMANCHE – Three and a half months removed from prison, Kara Chapman is striving to rebuild her life. The 38-year-old mother works most days waiting tables at a catfish restaurant in Comanche.

Oklahoma State University 2020 winter wheat variety Butler’s Gold is growing more prominent on the commercial market, and researchers want to ensure that producers know when and how to plant it.

“You people of the South don’t know what you are doing,” William Tecumseh Sherman told David F. Boyd in 1860. “This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization!

MARRIAGE LICENSES Joshua David Von Tress and Kory Suzanne Knowlton. James Ruben Cowns III and Jennifer Lee Bennett. Gerald Edward Galbreath and Rebecca Gomes. Bradyn Scott Edwards and Lynnette Eden Lineback Paonessa. Kayli Cheyenne Strain and Hannah Doris Sue Keeney.

HARRAH - Jennifer Douglas has been waiting to see what the outcome would be when her talented group of El Reno High School basketball players came together as a team. It took just five games to get that answer.

HARRAH – Having scrimmaged Classen SAS during the preseason, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team used that knowledge of the Comets to post a win when it counted for real.

El Reno High School’s wrestling team suffered its worst loss of the dual season last week, dropping a 63-9 decision to Class 4A’s top-ranked Tuttle Tigers. The Indians, ranked seventh at the time in the Class 5A poll, slipped to 2-2 on the year with its second straight setback.