April 2025

Seniors Carter Roman Nose and Tre Davis joined a long and esteemed list of El Reno High School players to earn the highest honor allocated to a senior – a spot on the Oklahoma Coaches Association’s All-State squad.

Roman Nose and Davis were named to the Large West squad for the 2025 OCA All-State Boys Basketball Games to be played July 30 at Tulsa Memorial High School.

The pair were joined by Calumet’s Kyler Thiessen and Okarche’s Hunter Mueggenborg, who were named to the Small West team. The West teams will take on squads from the East at 7 and 8:30 p.m.

El Reno High School senior Brooklynn Huggins (seated in white) signed last week to wrestle for Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa.

El Reno High School senior Brailyn Pfeifer (seated center) signed recently with the University of Central Oklahoma for cheer.

Dropping its team score for a second straight outing, El Reno finished second to archrival Carl Albert at the 2025 El Reno Girls Golf Invitational hosted at Crimson Creek Golf Course.

The Titans, ranked second in Class 5A in the OSSAA rankings and seventh statewide, carded a 338 to win by 15 strokes over El Reno. 

The Indians, ranked third in 5A and 18th overall, shot their best round in more than four years with a 353.

El Reno High School’s boys golf team now has a barometer of where it needs to go by season’s end to be in the running for a state ticket, opening up its 2025 schedule with a 13th-place effort in the Southern Oklahoma Invitational.

Playing at the Duncan Golf Club, El Reno carded a 371 to finish as the seventh best Class 5A team in the field. 

Class 3A’s Plainview won the event with a 308. Marlow (314), Velma-Alma (315), Duncan (328) and Elgin (328) rounded out the top five.

Design plans and a project budget are close to being finalized with construction due to start later this fall on Canadian County’s new courthouse complex.

Commissioners met March 31 with representatives of Lingo Construction and MA+ Architecture, approving a scope of work for the project to proceed.

Also participating were members of the Canadian County New Courthouse Building Committee.

I love dogs, I always have. I know a lot of people don’t understand it and that’s OK. To each their own.

So when my editor/brother asked me if I wanted to go cover a story about dogs at the high school, I of course said yes!

The El Reno High School Leadership Class, which is led by teacher Jacqueline Smith, has been working on an ongoing fundraiser this year to help raise money and items for the El Reno Animal Shelter. 

A woman was stopped Thursday morning in Geary after she allegedly took her child from her El Reno home. The woman, identified as Shanea Bell, did not have legal custody of the child, police said. 

El Reno police said they were called to 2429 Stone Glen Drive about the incident shortly after 6 a.m. on Thursday.

Officers learned the child had been taken from the home by Bell. The woman allegedly left the residence after packing clothes for the child.

An Oklahoma City bombing survivor will be the guest speaker at “Voices for Justice: A Crime Victim Rights Panel and Proclamation” presented by the Canadian County Coordinated Community Response Team.

Dennis Purifoy will share “A Story of Hope” at this event set for 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday, April 7 at Archery Traditions, 328 Elm in Yukon. Residents across Canadian County are invited to hear his message.

These boxes of clothes and shoes were left on the ground by Wesley United Methodist Church’s Blessing Boxes.

A program official urges area residents wishing to make clothing donations to either contact the church office in advance to make such donations or take those items to local charities set up to handle clothes and shoes.

The Blessing Boxes program is designed for non-perishable food and hygiene products.