September 2024

Ken and Donna Posey are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary.

At the 2024 State Fair of Oklahoma, The Pride of El Reno won 5A Band Competition, first place, 5A Drum Major, first place, 5A Color Guard, first place, and 5A Drum Line, second place.

Several Canadian County students were honored recently by the Oklahoma State University Ferguson College of Agriculture with academic scholarship support for the 2024-2025 academic year.These scholarships are part of the more than $1.8 million that students receive from the Ferguson College and its...

Ed and Barbara Zweiacher hosted visitors from Switzerland last week. Katja Zweiacker and Bjorn Schmid were traveling on Route 66 from Flagstaff, Ariz., to Chicago and stopped to visit in El Reno.They are from Jegenstorf, Switzerland, where Ed’s grandfather came from.

Madison Basler, 11, and Abby Bass, 10, will appear in the Southwest Playhouse production of the beloved musical which opened Friday, Sept. 20 and runs for two weekends.

The ground is turning colors of yellow and brown on ranches, farms and fields and for lawns and water supplies. Dust devils swirl in the September wind.The extreme drought returned to Canadian County in mid-September.

Making a late push for one of the top two spots in the district standings and hosting rights for the regional round of the playoffs, El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team defeated Noble 10-6 last week.The Bears, who defeated El Reno six days earlier, entered the game in the second spot in...

El Reno is off this week and will open district play at home Sept. 27 against Altus. 

El Reno High School freshman Ethan Brooks continued his assault on breaking the 16-minute barrier, running the 5-kilometer course at the 2024 Choctaw Invitational just 33 seconds shy of that feat.Brooks posted a time of 16 minutes, 33.58 seconds to take first place over Yukon senior Austin Bucher,...

Road matches continue to be a tough path to the win column for El Reno High School’s volleyball team as the Indians dropped a close 3-2 match to state-ranked Santa Fe South.El Reno won games two (25-10) and four (25-22) but lost the other three by a combined 17 points – including a 15-11 margin in...