March 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY – While a loss to Wilson in the championship battle was not the end game Calumet High School was expecting, head coach Jacob Mayfield still considers both the state tourney and the 2023-24 season a success.

“You’re supposed to play a good team in the finals. We played better than everyone else up to that point, we just didn’t get it done on the day.

“It was still an excellent season,” said Mayfield.

LAWSUITS

LVNV Funding LLC vs. Christy Snyder for $4,346.74 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Barclays Bank Delaware vs. Don Levings for $4,204.57 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

LVNV Funding LLC vs. Roney Myers for $2,604.59 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

LVNV Funding LLC vs. Jorge Martinez for $1,474.66 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Barclays Bank Delaware vs. Joan Olejua for $2,138.71 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

CENTRAL

Arcadia: March 4.
Elevation is normal and stable, water temperature 50°F and stained.
Largemouth bass fair on crankbaits, jerk baits and plastic baits around brush structure, creek channels and points. Crappie slow on hair jigs, minnows and slabs around brush structure, docks and rocks. Blue and channel catfish slow on cut bait, hot dogs and shad around channels, coves and points.

El Reno’s elected city council covered a lot of territory during a special work session last week. Some of the issues discussed will no doubt please many in the community, while others will be met with, more likely, groans.

Such is the world of municipal government.

Mayor Steven Jensen, Vice Mayor David Black and council members Amy Neathery, Pete Stapperfend and Dr. Brian Shafer met with city staff, department heads and consultants during the roughly three-hour session.

An El Reno man was one of four erosion control company owners or managers who pleaded guilty to rigging bids and fixing prices as part of a conspiracy targeting a total of more than $100 million in publicly funded transportation construction contracts across Oklahoma.

Roy Henry Henrich, 65, of El Reno; Stanley Mark Smith, 65, of Claremore; Ryan Ashley Sullivan, 46, of Lawton; and James Travis Feazel, 50, of Weatherford have all pleaded guilty.

A common desire among nursing students is to help others.

“I chose to pursue a career in nursing because of my innate desire to assist others in any way possible,” said Kassidy Brinlee, a Redlands nursing student and a student ambassador. “Witnessing my grandmother’s battle with dementia deeply impacted me and highlighted the importance of helping others facing similar challenges.”

A semi carrying a piece of equipment apparently struck the Union Pacific Railroad crossing bridge on Sunset Drive last week.

El Reno police and Union Pacific crews were on the scene. Police said no injuries were reported.

It’s not known what, if any, damage occurred to the bridge. More information was not available as of press time.

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed legislation to implement free market principles and assert states rights in high-voltage transmission construction and ownership.

Rep. Trey Caldwell, R-Lawton, authored House Bill 4097, which would give Oklahoma the right to decide how critical transmission infrastructure located within the state would be owned and maintained.

“I sat through hundreds of hours of meetings to help Oklahomans who are living on a fixed income or struggling to make ends meet,” Caldwell said.

LAWSUITS

Cavalry SPV I LLC vs. Brady McCrary for $1,184.53 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Cavalry SPV I LLC vs. Ashley Woodward for $2,302.04 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Capital One N.A. vs. Connie Romo for $6,281.11 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

LVNV Funding LLC vs. Brandi Wagner for $896.95 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

LVNV Funding LLC vs. Alexandria Charest for $5,213.92 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

EDMOND – Having beaten Shawnee in two close games during district play, El Reno High School head coach Jennifer Douglas and her players knew it would take four solid periods to defeat the Wolves for a third time.

Mission accomplished.

El Reno played four solid periods on both ends of the floor to post a 64-29 win over Shawnee in the Class 5A West Region 1 championship game.

The 35-point victory, the 24th of the season by double digits, lifted the Indians back into the state tournament for a fourth straight season.