August 2025

Yukon outscored El Reno High School’s softball team 8-2 over the final two and a half innings as the Millers broke a 5-all tie and pulled out a 13-7 victory over the Indians.The loss dropped El Reno to 0-2 on the season following a 9-1 road setback a day earlier to Enid.El Reno tied the game with...

Though the scores improved each game, El Reno High School’s volleyball team found itself on the short end of a 3-1 score against Southwest Covenant School in the 2025 season opener.El Reno won game three 25-18 and led in game two by a pair of points before falling 25-20.

El Reno High School’s football program was slated to jump into full pads on Friday after the mandatory heat acclamation period of four days in shorts and helmets mandated by the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association.El Reno will have its lone preseason scrimmage on Friday (Aug. 22) at...

Lawson Geheb and Callie Cramer logged a home run each as Okarche High School’s fast-pitch softball team posted season-opening wins over Amber-Pocasset (6-1) and Chattanooga (7-1).Geheb (.571) logged four base hits total for the two games, including two doubles, as the Warriors went 16-of-49 as a...

Bonnie Jean Wiewel was born July 14, 1956, in Oklahoma City to Frank and Berniece (Holland) Welch.She passed away Aug. 9, 2025, after a brief battle with a rare illness.Bonnie married Billy Wiewel in 1975. Soon after they married they moved to California where they raised their four children.

CALUMET – Without an extra base hit, Calumet High School’s baseball team kicked off the 2025 fall season with a 7-2 wire-to-wire victory over Drummond.Calumet, the Class B state runner-up, outhit the Bulldogs 9-3 with Konnor Thiessen and Talon Arnold logging three singles each on seven combined...

November 13, 1951 - August 5, 2025Keith Goodwin passed away Aug. 5, 2025. He was a decent man and was raised by his father as a Southern gentleman. He was a strident socialist Democrat.

Proposed non-structural design changes are being reviewed for the third and fourth floors of the new Canadian County Courthouse project. Construction will start this fall on a four-story county courthouse at 201 N. Choctaw.

NEXUS Animals is partnering with animal shelters and others to host a “Clear the Shelter” pet adoption event.

I would like to encourage you to do whatever you can to celebrate our city, our school system, our community, our veterans and our rich heritage as the quickly approaching year of 2026 will mark two huge anniversaries significant to our community, our state, our nation, and arguably the entire...