March 2025

Members of the Underwood Club of Oklahoma Home and Community Education met recently in the home of Vicki Duncan for their March meeting.Attending were Delpha Miklautsch, Ann Ricketts, Michele Rivers, Renee’ Schweitzer, Bernita Davis and Janan Fletcher.Duncan gave the lesson titled “Sleep is a Super...

Seth Levi Harrison of Oklahoma City passed away March 15, 2025, at the age of 45. Seth was born in El Reno on March 21, 1979, but after his father, James passed away, they moved to Stonewall, where he grew up.

Shortly after the El Reno girls won their second straight Class 5A state championship, I was stopped on press row and asked a question I was not ready to answer.“You’ve got to be excited,” inquired one media member.

To the victor go the spoils as El Reno High School’s boys basketball team, the outright league champion, claimed nine spots on the five lists making up the 2025 All District 5A-1 Team.Three of those honors were superlative awards as Rodney Haydon was named Coach of the Year.

Michael Gene Brown (Mike) was born May 26, 1954, in Waurika, Oklahoma, to Charlene (Snider) and Homer Brown. He passed from this life on Friday, March 14, 2025, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the age of 70.

El Reno High School fell a few pounds and points shy of winning its second championship of 2025 as the boys squad earned a runner-up finish at the 2025 Oklahoma Powerlifting Coaches Association’s State Meet.The Indians had seven lifters in the high school division as El Reno racked up 47 points.

El Reno High School’s girls golf team posted its first sub-400 team score of the 2025 season but now know they have work left to do to make an impact on the state tourney level.Playing the Class 5A Girls State Preview at Lincoln Park, El Reno took seventh with a 394.

OKLAHOMA CITY – For just the third time in the storied 60-year history of the Jim Norick Arena, the Class 5A Girls Oklahoma State High School Basketball Championships was settled between a pair of past winners.El Reno, the defending state champion, was expected to have an uphill battle in defense...

With her body aching from a hard fall taken a quarter earlier, Raegan Bugaj stepped to the free-throw line at the Jim Norick Arena with 5.7 seconds left in the state title game.She gently lifted up her glasses and wiped away a mixture of sweat and tears from under each eye.“It was tears,” said...

A grand opening ceremony opened the newly constructed Cheyenne and Arapaho Travel Center, located off Exit 108 on I-40, west of El Reno. Beatrice Fingernail, general manager for the new travel center, welcomed those attending the celebration.