January 2024

Services for Jean Ann Widdifield will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 25 at Ingram, Smith and Turner Mortuary in Yukon. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Jean Ann, a compassionate and dedicated registered nurse, passed away peacefully on Jan. 15, 2024, at the age of 67.

A few minutes into the fourth period of El Reno’s semifinal game of the Shawnee Invitational against Coweta, Jennifer Douglas called Pauline Black-Harmon to the end of the bench and asked her one simple question. “Do you want to get it today or tomorrow?” said Black-Harmon.

Broken water pipes at Jenks Simmons Field House forced Mobile Meals to shut down, hopefully for no more than a week. El Reno Schools Superintendent Matt Goucher said the pipes that broke overnight on Jan. 16 were on an exterior wall at Jenks.

El Reno firefighter Gage Pittman (left) holds a set of battery-powered spreaders as fellow firefighter Nathan Dewberry (center) uses battery-operated cutters.

According to a biologist with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, birds this time of year are looking for unfrozen water to migrate toward and with recent temperatures below freezing, when unfrozen ponds are located, they become crowded such as the one near the overpass (second...

Canadian County commissioners have agreed to spend more to stabilize the subgrade for a parking lot resurfacing project outside the county assessor’s building. The commissioners, at their weekly meeting Jan. 16, voted 3-0 to approve a $15,296 change order for the long-awaited parking upgrade.

The Canadian County Sheriff’s Office will begin training staff on crisis intervention, said a statement from the sheriff’s office. The first of seven, five-day, 40-hour crisis intervention team training sessions began Jan. 22. The final block will be taught in October.

In an effort to alleviate some of the college expenses for students, faculty at Redlands Community College are identifying free course materials.

Peyton was a loving husband, father, PaPa and friend. He was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, on Oct. 29, 1954, and passed away Jan. 17, 2024, in El Reno, where he lived most of his life.

A former Canadian County sheriff’s deputy charged criminally with sexual misconduct is now being sued by an alleged victim. David Wayne Loman is defendant in a lawsuit filed Dec. 22 in Canadian County District Court.