July 2024

Lizard and lemonade

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Caylee Massey, 9, along with her pet lizard, Speedy Stewart, were offering fresh lemonade last week.

A sale was interrupted when Speedy fell off Caylee’s arm, but after a quick search in the grass, Caylee’s business partner was returned to his station.
 

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Donated USAF jet makes slow taxi down Route 66

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In a journey which took over two hours to complete, Canadian Valley Technology Center was the final destination on the flight log for a T-1A Jayhawk aircraft.

Donated from the United States Air Force, the Jayhawk is a twin-engine medium-range trainer used in the advanced phase of specialized undergraduate pilot training for students selected to fly airlift or tanker aircraft, according to the USAF website.

The swept-wing aircraft is the military version of the Beechcraft 400A and has structural enhancements for increased bird strike resistance and added fuselage fuel tank.

Workers pull the T-1A Jayhawk down Route 66 Sunday morning

Chase through town ends in man's arrest

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El Reno police officers patrolling the area of Country Club and Shuttee were flagged down by a person who said a man had just stolen a work truck with a trailer attached.

This happened on July 11 at about 5:40 p.m., Assistant Police Chief Kirk Dickerson said. 

Officers began to search the area and soon located the vehicle near Foreman Road and North Keith Avenue.

Cool sliding

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In an effort to cool off last week from the near triple-digit heat in El Reno, brothers Ethan (left) and Hudson Mize slide through a wall of water at the end of a sliding lane outside their home.

Temperatures are expected to dip close to 15 degrees later this week and into the weekend.

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Sliding into fun

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After three days of workouts on fundamentals, El Reno High School’s youth softball camp ended with some fun with a round water slide and snow cones.

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GOP convention to go on as planned in Milwaukee, Trump to attend

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WASHINGTON — Thousands of Republicans will gather in Milwaukee beginning Monday for the party’s presidential nominating convention — a typically joyous occasion that will likely take on a different tone this year after a gunman shot at Donald Trump, injuring him, on Saturday.

Trump, who will be formally nominated as the GOP’s presidential nominee on Thursday, still plans to attend the convention and officials stress the four-day event will go on as normal.

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Public Records - 7/17/2024

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MUNICIPAL COURT

Kelli Dawn Osage, El Reno, failure to use child restraint, $145.

Joel Reyes Perez, Lampasas, Texas, disorderly conduct, $595.

William Joseph Allen, El Reno, trespassing on private property, $295.

Jessica Martin, Choctaw, petit larceny and failure to appear warrant, $840.

Jared Thomas Booth, El Reno, speeding, $165.

Jose Juan Camacho Garcia, Albuquerque, N.M., failure to wear seat restraint and expired tag, $150.

Nicholas Shane Pugh, El Reno, speeding, $185.

Latin Don Everheart, El Reno, speeding, $165.

Who runs the country?

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Who runs the country?

I’ve been hearing variants of that question a lot over the last few weeks, mainly in forms like - “Given Joe Biden's age and apparent mental decline, can we trust him to run the country for another four years?”

For the last eight or nine years, I’ve also heard it a lot, in slightly different forms, about Donald Trump.

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