June 2025

Aiden Williams loves to play baseball, so much so, that he pitched in last week’s Oklahoma State Games despite recovering from a serious thumb injury.“I feel like if I took the whole summer off, then that’s just wasted opportunity to get better and get stronger.

The City of Oklahoma City hosted the Champions Parade to celebrate the Thunder’s first NBA Championship in franchise history.Hundreds of thousands of fans lined the parade route and Thunder players regularly walked the parade route to high-five and celebrate with fans.

Janice Kay Plumley was born Dec. 8, 1947.She passed away peacefully June 19, 2025, in El Reno, surrounded by the people she loved. Janice was the daughter of Raymond Ruskin Stovall and June Evelyn (Banta) Stovall. She was a graduate of Minco High School.

Fireworks could be heard in the skies over El Reno just moments after the Oklahoma City Thunder won the state’s first-ever major league sports championship with a 103-91 victory over the Indiana Pacers.The 12-point win in Game 7 of the 2025 National Basketball Association Finals gave the Thunder...

Surfing the wave of excitement with the Oklahoma City Thunder being in the NBA Finals, the city of El Reno’s Fast Connect fiber optic network passed a major field test last week.Literally.In the grass field east of the main pavilion at Lake El Reno, the city hosted a free watch party.More than 125...

The centennial of the Mother Road is coming in 2026.

The historic Route 66 highway crosses Canadian County.

Children involved in Project Transformation took a field trip last week to the El Reno Regional Airport. Airport Manager Scott Law took the group on a tour of buildings and offices at the airport.

Canadian County sheriff’s investigator Preston Hodge earned the U.S. Attorney Award for Community Impact, signed by Acting U.S. Attorney John E. Childress.

OKLAHOMA CITY – A federal jury has convicted Ronnie Allen Barton, 48, of Canadian County, of two counts of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor, one count of commission of a sex offense by a registered sex offender and one count of attempted receipt of child pornography, said U.S. Attorney...