April 2025

Body Stepping up a classification for just the second time this season, El Reno High School’s baseball team dropped a 10-2 road game last week to Class 6A’s Norman North.The loss moves El Reno to 1-1 against the state’s largest classification and 14-9-2 on the season.

Body The Burger Day Festival is a tribute to the fried onion hamburger, cooked daily in El Reno since the early 1900s. It’s the burger that has helped make the community a destination for food lovers and those trekking along historic Route 66.

Body 10:30 a.m.Story Time with El Reno Carnegie Library11:00 a.m.Jeremiah Goodblanket11:30-12:30Mad Scientist12:45 p.m.Guerreros De La Pista Dance Group1:00-2:30 p.m.Extreme Animals2:30 p.m.Canadian River Howlers3 p.m.Arts Council Talent Show

Body The Smokin’ Oaks is a four-piece band from Yukon, started in early 2023.

Body Memorial service for Haydon Shrum of Wakita will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 3 at the El Reno Cemetery with Taylor Shrum officiating.Haydon passed away Feb. 28, 2025. He was born June 2, 1963, in Siloam Springs, Ark. 

Body Following are letters from second-graders at Rose Witcher Learning Center on How to Cook the Big Burger:In my opinion the best way to cook the most humongous Burger Day burger is buy 50,000 pounds of meat. That’s how I think the burger is made.

Body El Reno was one of the communities targeted for expansion by WEOKIE Federal Credit Union, said Jeff Carpenter, president and CEO of the Oklahoma financial institution.