September 2024

A project described as critical near Banner School is moving forward.An Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) contractor will be hired to make improvements to the intersection of Jensen and Banner roads, south of Interstate 40.County commissioners last week approved four offers to purchase...

Drive by The Lord’s Harvest food ministry on west Sunset Drive and you will most likely see people standing outside.What you don’t see is the work going on inside the building.That work, so far this year, has provided food more than 35,770 times for people in El Reno.And the year is not over. 

It’s Blue and Gold sausage season! Mine was delivered just last night by Paula Cooper, owner of Cocobella’s Gifts, downtown El Reno.She was helping her grandson, Bryson Cooper make his deliveries. He sold a lot, so he needed the help! Bryson is a freshman at Calumet High School. 

Voters in Canadian County who want absentee ballots mailed to them for the Nov. 5 General Election as well as the City of El Reno Ward 1, City of El Reno OG&E Franchise and City of Yukon Charter Changes should apply now, said county election board secretary Allen Arnold.Absentee ballots are...

LAWSUITSFreedom Mortgage Corporation vs. Derek Nix for $110,120.45 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 7, Block 15, Colony Pointe Phase III Addition, Oklahoma City.Nationstar Mortgage LLC vs. Shonda Orr for $170,901.10 to pay a debt plus interest,...

When Abner Doubleday created baseball in the mid-1800s, it’s safe to say he never imagined the sport evolving to the point where electronic communication devices are being placed in catcher’s masks, let alone infielders wearing watches that tell them in real time what pitches are being called from...

The comforts of home brought little relief for El Reno High School’s volleyball team in the Indians effort to break free from a recent losing streak.Playing at Jenks Simmons Field House for the first time in 19 days, El Reno dropped a 3-0 match to Class 4A’s seventh-ranked Cache by scores of...

MIDWEST CITY – El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team will be on the road for the upcoming Class 5A regional playoffs after dropping its final two games of the district race.Needing a win over Carl Albert to get into a possible tie for second place and the right to host a home regional, El...

Calumet High School’s baseball team had its five-game win streak snapped last week in the finals of the Ripley Invitational, losing 9-8 to Class A’s 10th- ranked Navajo.The Chieftains had the tying run, Carson Cooper, at third base in the bottom of the seventh inning via a single and two sacrifice...

UNION CITY – Struggling to break free from the loss column, Union City High School’s fast-pitch softball team closed out the regular season with an 8-1 setback to Class B’s fourth-ranked Lookeba-Sickles.The loss was the second in a row for the Tigers and three out of the last four games.