January 2024

ANADARKO - A steal and a coast-to-coast layup by Nazhoni Sleeper sent El Reno High School’s girls basketball team on the path to a wire-to-wire win over the host team in the championship game of the 2024 Anadarko Warriors Classic.

Services for Agnes Estella “Aggie” Siegrist of Yukon will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10 at First Presbyterian Church in El Reno with Rev. Jan Burns-Hintze officiating.

ANADARKO – Scoring from both in the paint and from the 3-point line, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team used a 16-12 break in the first period to kick-start its defense of the championship from the 2024 Anadarko Warriors Classic.

In its fourth dual of the season against a ranked opponent, El Reno High School’s wrestling team dropped a series of matches early and late in a close 41-36 loss to Class 5A’s 12th-ranked Guthrie. The loss dropped the Indians, ranked ninth in the same poll, to 3-3 on the year.

Funeral services for Edward Ray McDaniel of Fort Worth, Texas, will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10 at 4300 Ramona Avenue, Dallas, Texas, with burial at 11:15 a.m. at DFW National Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Golden Gate Funeral Home. Mr. McDaniel passed away Dec. 29, 2023.

A Canadian County Sheriff’s deputy standing outside his patrol pickup was struck by a vehicle early Friday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

The effort to preserve the old Canadian County Jail will be highlighted in a webinar hosted by the State Historic Preservation Office on Wednesday, Jan. 10, starting at noon. The featured speaker is Amy Neathery with Preservation El Reno.

Editor’s Note: A new president at Redlands Community College, an offer to partner the C&A with the USDA, a big boost for STEM education and heavy rains that filled Lake El Reno just in time for Smoke on the Water were some of the stories that drew attention as the community moved from summer into...

A Yukon man who claimed in a viral YouTube video that he was wrongfully arrested in September in the lobby of the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office now faces a misdemeanor charge related to the incident.

The Education Building at the old Canadian County Fairgrounds is under new management. County commissioners made it official when they voted unanimously last week to assign the administration of the Education Building to Canadian County’s OSU Extension Service.