January 2025

Services for Wesley E. Moore of El Reno were held Dec. 31 at First Christian Church with Rev. Colton Lott officiating. Burial followed in the El Reno Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.

Patrick Sheehan of Calumet died Dec. 27, 2024, at the Oklahoma Veterans Center in Clinton.

Services will be announced at a later date by Huber-Benson Funeral Home. 

Graveside services for Billy Jack “Jackie” Finch of Minco were held Monday, Dec. 30 at the Evergreen Cemetery in Minco. Services were under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home.

Jackie died Dec. 20, 2024, at SSM Midtown in Oklahoma City. He was born Oct. 26, 1952, in Cogar. He was a lifelong resident of Minco. He had been employed as a truck driver and did odd jobs and mechanic work.

Jackie is survived by his son, B.J. Finch of Oklahoma City; and sisters, Terri Ventris of Cement, Diane Morefield of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, and Davelon Finch of Tuttle.

LAWSUITS

Discover Bank vs. Richard Bibbs for $15,632.27 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Discover Bank vs. Stephen Winstead for $12,712.82 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Discover Bank vs. Kaylie Bucher for $16,988.70 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Bank of America N.A. vs. Randy Franklin for $13,871.72 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Bank of America N.A. vs. Edwin Goodloe for $10,709.78 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

El Reno High School’s boys basketball team has been dominating opponents in the paint over the first six games of the 2024-25 season.

The Indians have scored 114 baskets in the paint off 51 percent shooting.

Dunks have become an early calling card for El Reno, with at least two in each outing and 38 total.

Senior guard Carter Roman Nose has 11 dunks on the season.

Senior Tre Davis has two or more dunks in each game and 22 on the season.

Kason Haydon is third on the team in dunks with five.

Calumet High School senior Kyler Thiessen (seated center) took advantage of the early signing period to ink with Cowley County College based out of Arkansas City, Kan.

The Tigers are a NJCAA Division I program playing out of Region 6.

When the Redlands Community College women’s basketball team jumps into NJCAA Region 2 play next week, it’s going to be a shootout from the first game to capture a postseason tourney berth.

The Cougars are slated to open the 2025 portion of their schedule Tuesday at Oklahoma Wesleyan before kicking off the 16-game run through Region 2 games.

The first will be at home Thursday with Northeastern Oklahoma A&M.

Redlands closed out 2024 with a 91-60 win over Southwestern Christian University’s junior varsity to improve to 6-4 on the season.

A high octane offense over the first half of the season has many thinking that the 2024-25 campaign could be the year the Redlands Community College men’s basketball team will make some postseason noise.

Redlands made the NJCAA Region 2 postseason tournament five of the last seven years, but head coach Jose Molina has yet to have a team post a playoff victory.

“We are aiming for our first playoff win this year,” said Molina.