April 2025

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.The Indians scored two runs in the...

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.

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

The Smokin’ Oaks is a four-piece band from Yukon, started in early 2023.Beginning at a young age, relatives of Grady Cross (Cross Canadian Ragweed), Slaid Cross (lead guitar and harmony vocals) and Colton Blake (vocals and rhythm guitar) joined together with Noah Morris (drums and percussion) and...

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. 

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.

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.That plan came to fruition March 31, when El Reno RIL Credit Union officially joined the WEOKIE Federal Credit Union.