February 2024

Redlands Community College’s baseball team secured bookend wins around back-to-back losses to split a four-game road set with Dallas College-Cedar Valley.

El Reno is showing positive growth in the area of sales tax, Assistant City Manager Tim Young reported at the February city council meeting. Young said El Reno’s share of sales tax for the month totaled almost $1.2 million. He said that was a 3 percent increase over the same period a year ago.

A jury trial is set in May for a Canadian County man charged with his wife’s murder. Vaughn R. Cannon, 41, is accused of shooting to death Jordan Cannon in August 2023 at their eastern Canadian County home.

Canadian County will implement a purchasing card program after approving a new county policy and designating eight card holders. County commissioners approved the change last week. “We’re moving into the p-card world,” Commissioner Tom Manske said. “This is a great start. I’m excited about this.

Voter registration is nearing 100,000 in Canadian County, having increased by 5,450 voters (7.1 percent) in the past 12 months. Canadian County’s total number of registered voters now surpasses 99,000.

El Reno High School cheerleaders, from left, Harper Looper, Zoe Wood and Maecy Eaton cheer on a wrestler during last week’s Oklahoma State High School Wrestling Championships.

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Senate last week sent Gov. Kevin Stitt a bill that would eliminate the state’s sales tax on groceries. House Bill 1955 passed by a vote of 42-2.

A handful of House Republican lawmakers joined Democrats to kill a bill that would have moved school board elections to the November ballot.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Anthony Moore, R-Clinton, secured unanimous subcommittee passage of a bill that would extend the Oklahoma Promise Scholarship to all children of a certified, full-time teacher who has taught for at least 10 years in an Oklahoma public school classroom and is currently teaching.

LAWSUITS CKS Prime Investments LLC vs. Shadra Llewellyn for $1,462.87 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees. CKS Prime Investments LLC vs. Shari Peacock for $1,028.34 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.