November 2024

Thirteen different players scored as Calumet High School’s boys basketball team kicked off the 2024-25 season with a Canadian County rivalry win over Union City.The Chieftains, who have now won 26 straight regular-season games dating back to last year, moved to 1-0 in the Washita Valley Conference...

Redlands Community College women’s basketball team remains undefeated on the season with a 71-57 win over Southwestern Christian University’s junior varsity.The Cougars are now 3-0 on the year after shooting 22-of-71 (31 percent) from the field.

Shooting a combined 56 percent over the three-game span of the Thunderbird Classic in Hobbs, N.M., Redlands Community College men’s basketball team moved to 4-1 on the year with back-to-back victories.The Cougars opened the event with an 89-60 loss to No.13 New Mexico Junior College, but bounced...

Memorial services for Dorothy Mary McMurray of Colorado Springs, Colo., will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22 at Northwest Community Center in El Reno with Brother Lee Walker of Rogers Street Church of Christ officiating.

Four graduates of El Reno High School were recognized for their accomplishments last week during the annual “Thousands of Reasons Gala, Celebrating Distinguished Alumni and Educators.”The event is sponsored by the El Reno Public School Foundation.

A new member has been appointed to the Canadian County Free Fair Board.Farmer and rancher Jimmie D. Smith, a former Calumet and Darlington school administrator, succeeds Dan Wedman as a District 3 representative on the nine-member fair board.Wedman, of Calumet, recently retired after 46 years of...

Union City High School's basketball mascot watches the action from the sidelines as the Tigers kicked off the 2024-25 season last week.Small schools in the state of Oklahoma not playing football were allowed to open their respective hoop seasons the first week of November.

Redlands Community College TRIO Student Support Services is taking matters into its own hands – or feet – to raise funds for scholarships.The program is taking donations of gently worn, used and new shoes and will receive funding from the Funds2Orgs based on the total weight of the shoes...

Sheriff Chris West said his office is gathering information after a video circulating on social media shows a longtime investigator cursing at a man who came onto the lawman’s property.

District Attorney Tommy Humphries launched a new website he said to enhance communication between his office and the public.