February 2024

Funeral services for James Harold Anquoe Sr. will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9 at First Baptist Church of Anadarko with interment in the Anquoe Cemetery in Mountain View. Services are under the direction of Ray & Martha’s Funeral Home, Anadarko.

OKLAHOMA CITY – It took less than three minutes for El Reno High School post player Pauline Black-Harmon to etch her name into the program’s record books for a second time this season.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Josiah Reveles knocked down six 3-pointers in the first half and Carter Roman Nose posted his first triple-double of the season as El Reno High School’s boys basketball team defeated Western Heights 78-44.

El Reno High School junior Carter Roman Nose was recently presented the trophy ball and poster honoring his milestone of surpassing 1,000 career points. Pictured from left are his father, Perry, mom, Stephanie, brother, Evan and EHS head coach Rodney Haydon.

El Reno High School’s powerlifting teams have found mixed results during the first meets of the 2024 season. The boys varsity squad placed three in the Little Axe Invitational, led by a gold-medal effort of 810 pounds from Jeremiah Ortiz in the 123-pound bracket.

Jacob Mayfield admits that keeping a zero in the loss column was not a preseason goal of his Calumet High School boys basketball team when the season started in November. “Sure, we wanted to win every game we played, but going undefeated was not a goal,” said Mayfield.

Calumet High School’s girls basketball team will charge into the postseason on a high note after snapping a seven-game losing streak with a 41-35 win over Gracemont in the Washita Valley Shootout. The win lifted the Chieftains to 2-20 on the season.

After having its 13-game win streak snapped by a four-point loss to Class 2A’s fourth-ranked Hennessey, Okarche High School’s boys basketball team rebounded with back-to-back wins.

Country music fans in the area will have a rare treat to step back in time when the Twitty & Lynn Show plays at the Centre Theatre in downtown El Reno.

El Reno High School cheerleaders (from left) Ainslee Bailey, Serenity Schnider and Bella Hart accented their Pink Out shirts with pink sunglasses as did the rest of the EHS cheer squad.