February 2024

The Redlands Community College Livestock Judging Team is bringing home numerous awards, including overall team championship honors from the Fort Worth Stock Show and the National Western Stock Show in Denver.

At the competition in Denver, the Redlands team was named High Team Overall and High Team Overall in the Carload Contest, and finished High Team in Reasons, Cattle and Swine, and Third High Team in Sheep and Goats.

Family members from left, Sherwin Harmon (dad), Billie Black (mom), Latreece Black-Harmon (sister), Kathrine Black (grandmother) and Mary Kenney (aunt) hold up banners honoring El Reno High School senior Pauline Black-Harmon, who surpassed the 1,000-point career scoring mark last week in a road game at Western Heights.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Gov. Kevin Stitt caught some lawmakers off guard when he called for consolidating public colleges and universities in his State of the State speech.

Stitt offered few specific details in his speech except to say he wants to see legislation that incentivizes higher education models that fulfill state workforce needs. Colleges that aren’t meeting those demands should be consolidated, he said.

Legislation to give local school boards more leniency in deciding how best to protect their districts will be up for consideration before the Senate Education Committee this month.

Senate Bill 1767 by Sen. Jessica Garvin, R-Duncan, would authorize district boards of education to establish qualifications for additional individuals to carry firearms on public and private school property, along with the currently allowed school personnel and others outlined in law.

Over three years of Biden administration, foreign policy has led to national security crisis after crisis. First, the Biden administration has provided worse than absentee leadership on our immigration system and border security policy.

WASHINGTON – Oklahoma’s entire congressional delegation, in a move led by Sen. James Lankford, joined together on a letter sent to the Federal Aviation Administration in support of the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City. The letter came a day after the FAA installed a new air traffic control tower training system at an airport in Austin, Texas.

According to a report issued by Special Counsel Robert K. Hur on Feb. 8, his investigation found “evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.”

Teddy L. Sullins was born in Elk City on Aug. 22, 1939. He joined the Oklahoma National Guard at age 15 and later served in the U.S. Air Force.

After his discharge he used his Air Force training in aircraft hydraulics to become a hydraulic specialist at Tinker Air Force Base.   

He was a former resident of El Reno and a member of the Mustang Church of Christ.

Teddy is survived by his brother, Billy Sullins of Edmond; sister, Freida Lundy of Elk City; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Graveside services for Lloyd Jasper Anthony of Ninnekah were held Tuesday, Feb. 13 at the Evergreen Cemetery in Minco, under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home.

Lloyd passed away Feb. 5, 2024, at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital South in Oklahoma City. He born Nov. 18, 1940, in Bartlesville. He was raised in the Pocasset community and graduated from Minco High School.

A former El Reno resident, he was a carpenter by trade.

MUNICIPAL COURT

Janice Frantz, Yukon, expired tag, $165.

Austin Randall Woods, El Reno, failure to stop at stop sign, $165.

Ignacio Trujillo, Calumet, expired tag, $165.

Daniel Maurice Thompson, El Reno, failure to stop at red signal and expired tag, $295.

Tarren Amber Sherman, El Reno, speeding, $165.

Adam Kirkland, El Reno, speeding, $165.

Henry Gonzalez, Oklahoma City, disobeying traffic light and driving without license issued, $417.

Lafonda Lynn Cataline, Yukon, speeding, $165.