May 2025

This young basketball player was sporting his Oklahoma City Thunder jersey at the recent El Reno High School Boys Youth Basketball Skills Camp.The Thunder won the Western Conference title and will play for the NBA title starting Thursday.

Donna Lou Nelson, beloved mother, sister, grandmother and friend, passed away on May 23, 2025, at the age of 71.Born in Mulberry, Ark., at Kirksey Hospital on Oct. 25, 1953, Donna lived a life marked by warmth, generosity, and a boundless love for the simple joys of life.A proud retiree of...

Three El Reno High School graduates are among the 10 area baseball players to pick up postseason awards, the most notable coming from the Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association.Gavin Tinsley, Davin Shamblin and Hernan Blanco were selected to the 2025 OBCA’s Class 5A All-Star by Class West squad.

Judith Wilma Clovis, born Jan. 2, 1942, was taken to heaven on the wings of angels on Sunday, May 18, 2025, at the age of 83. Judy, as she was known, attended El Reno High School. She was an extremely hard worker and extraordinarily independent.

El Reno High School’s boys basketball team recently held its 2025 Youth Skills Camp inside Jenks Simmons Field House and Annex.Forty-two campers spent three days learning offensive and defensive team fundamentals as well as individual skills on both ends of the floor.

Carolyn Sue Kennedy, born on May 27, 1941, to Albert and Della DeLaughter in El Reno, Oklahoma, peacefully entered the presence of her Savior on May 23, 2025, at the age of 83.

Services for Gary Irvin Penwright will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, May 30 at Huber-Benson Funeral Home.Gary died May 23, 2025, at his home in Calumet.

Graveside services for Andrea Marie “Andi” Douglas of Minco will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, May 30 at the Evergreen Cemetery in Minco, under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home.Andi died May 26, 2025, in Oklahoma City.

Recently I saw Congressman Frank Lucas in an interview with Oklahoma City television station KWTV. The topic was Fort Reno.Long before Lucas was elected to Congress in the early 1990s, the Cheyenne and Arapaho people argued Fort Reno rightfully belongs to them.

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, a Native American nation in Oklahoma, is trying to negotiate with the Trump administration to see if it can help win back a piece of land that was taken over by the federal government more than 150 years ago.The nearly 10,000-acre patch of land located near El Reno...