April 2024

Roger Dean Rinehart passed from this life peacefully on April 6, 2024, surrounded by family. He was born June 17, 1931, in El Reno. He married the love of his life, Ruby Jane Ogle in Tulsa during law school in 1955 and they returned to El Reno in 1956.

To the Editor: Help me understand how we have let the public school system wage a war against the taxpayers and parents who either have had kids in school or currently do? Why do we have board and bond elections at times when very few are paying attention?

LAWSUITS The Credit Union Loan Source LLC vs. Luis Castilleja for $73,652.98 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Spurred by three sub-50 scores on the front nine, the Indians golf team took ninth place out of 16 teams at the 2024 El Reno High School Girls Invitational.

It was a mixed bag of results over a 24-hour period for El Reno High School’s boys golf team last week, driven mostly by a shift in playing conditions. In near perfect playing conditions, the Indians carded a 337 team score to place third in the 2023 Weatherford Boys Invitational.

Following a big rally for a run-ruled pool victory over Weatherford, El Reno High School’s baseball team dropped a close 6-5 game to Class A’s 14th-ranked Laverne in cross-bracket play in the 2024 Kingfisher Invitational.

In the only scheduled home action of the season, El Reno High School’s tennis teams were competitive but dropped a varsity/junior varsity outing to Harding Charter by an 11-1 score at the Legion Park courts.

El Reno’s Carnegie Library got a boost in helping to digitize historic records with a grant from the Oklahoma Historical Society.

This Canada goose seems to be walking off the distance for a birdie putt for Redlands Community College sophomore Clara Peake (background) on the 18th green at Crimson Creek Golf Course last week.

A Canadian Valley Technology Center board member withstood a challenge to retain his Board of Education post. Incumbent Dean Riddell of Yukon on Tuesday won CV Tech’s Zone 1 board election by a 62.67 percent majority.