June 2025

Four El Reno High School graduates made key impacts for their teams in the 2025 Oklahoma Native All-State Association’s Basketball Games played in Okmulgee.Lilly Thomas and Emmary Elizondo played the second of three elite games, helping the girls Blue team to an 81-66 win over the Red.For only the...

Calumet High School’s Cody Thiessen was looking forward to coaching his son, Kyler one last time in the 2025 Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association’s All-State Game.Thiessen was selected to coach the Small West team along with Cashion’s Blake Mounce.

El Reno will begin operating a municipal ambulance service July 1.

Rain forced some changes to A Small Town Weekend, but participants and spectators appeared to be having too much fun to notice.

Happy Father’s Day! This past weekend I went to the Oklahoma Press Association’s annual convention. It was held in Shawnee at the Grand Casino.It was nice to see my fellow newspaper friends from across the state.

Project Transformation (PT) is an eight-week summer reading camp hosted by Wesley United Methodist Church. About a month before the camp was scheduled to open, leaders learned that the federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cut funding to all Oklahoma AmeriCorps Programs.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said an El Reno teen was killed and another injured when the vehicle they were in crashed in Caddo County.The accident occurred just before 4 a.m. June 10 at the intersection of US-281 and County Road 1120, two miles north of Lookeba.

With clouds and rain gone by noon on Saturday, cars and crowds descended on Adams Park to take part in or watch A Small Town Weekend’s burnout, closed cruise and drag racing events.Twenty drivers paid $20 each to bring their engine-rumbling and roaring sports cars and pickups to the ready line of...

Members of the El Reno Fire Department keep a close eye on the gauges while testing the water pressure and spray pattern on the water cannon attached to the department’s new platform truck.

A Canadian County jury is recommending life in prison for Agustin Salazar-Fraire after he was convicted last week of two counts of lewd acts to a child under 16 and four counts of rape in the first degree.