September 2025

The City of El Reno won the Municipal Innovations Award for the Filling Station project. 

The award was announced at the recent Oklahoma Municipal League Conference. 

In 1996, OML created an award to recognize cities and towns for their innovative ideas. With this award, the goal is to encourage the sharing of ideas among OML members and to celebrate the innovations of Oklahoma’s municipalities.

The Filling Station has been a must stop for tourists since first opening in early May.

Police have presented information to the district attorney’s office for possible charges after a man driving the Heritage Express Trolley apparently moved an El Reno ambulance several feet to allow the trolley to pass by. 

Police said the incident took place Sept. 6 shortly after 2 p.m. 

Police received a call from El Reno emergency medical personnel who were attending to a patient at the Intrada Apartments, 319 S. Grand.

El Reno is expected to have a new car wash on Country Club Road.

Rachel Spurger said she and her partners, including her husband, Scott, have closed on property purchased by Mighty Wash.

The land is on the east side of Country Club, across from Redlands Community College.

Mighty Wash is said to operate a “tunnel car wash.”

Spurger said Mighty Wash purchased one and a half acres. Construction, she said, is expected to begin in March of 2026. 

There is another four and a half acres attached to the property that is in the planning process for development.

Canadian County employees will receive a 3 percent pay raise in the new $40-plus million county budget.

The fiscal year 2026 general fund budget includes a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increase for approximately 333 county employees.

That total excludes around 31 Sheriff’s Department employees who will receive specific position raises.

Canadian County’s FY2026 budget also incorporates updated tiered benefit allowances for county employees that will now match the state of Oklahoma’s employees.

Members of the Underwood Club of Oklahoma Home and Community Education met recently in the home of Vicki Duncan. Others attending were Ann Ricketts and Janan Fletcher.

Duncan read a devotion from Prayers of Grace. Fletcher gave the treasurer’s report and noted yearly dues will be collected next month.

Discussion was held from the lesson on Cast Iron Basics. 

It was noted the Underwood Club’s booth received third place in the points contest.

An effort to replace Oklahoma’s current election system with one like California’s model, which often limits voters general-election choices to two Democrats with no alternatives, can proceed under recent decisions issued by the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

The court also held that the signature-collection process, which could place the California model before Oklahoma voters, will not be subject to reforms passed by the Oklahoma Legislature this year.

LAWSUITS

LVNV Funding LLC vs. Amy Jameson for $1,705.61 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Brianna Adams for $1,474.27 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Jason Anderson for $975.86 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Bracen Frost for $5,515.45 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Growing up in the Czech Republic, Amalie Kalcevova was focused on two simple life goals - see the world and go to college.

“I wanted to experience a new culture, new people and get better at English before I go to college,” said Kalcevova.

So what does a teenager in the capitol city of Prague, with a population of 1.4 million people, do to achieve such ambitions?

Kalcevova turned to the world of sports, more specifically, softball.

“I’ve been playing softball for a long time and I always wanted to go to the United States for college.” 

Returning home from an eight-game road slate, El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team dropped a 14-0 game to league-leader Carl Albert at the Ashbrook North Complex.

The loss dropped El Reno to 6-11 on the year and gave the Titans the sweep in District 5A-2 play. The Indians remain fourth in the league standings with a 2-4 mark, three games back of Midwest City and Guthrie for second place.

El Reno was handcuffed to one base hit, a single by Amalie Kalcevova, as the team struck out nine times with no walks.

Fifteen aces and a 90 percent serving effort powered El Reno High School’s volleyball team to a 3-0 home win over Class 6A’s Putnam City in a non-conference match.

El Reno, ranked 12th in Class 5A, jumps back into the win column to 14-10 on the season with the 25-16/25-11/25-15 decision.

The Indians held a 15-3 edge in aces, getting four each from Radley Miller and Deyana Cookston and three from Jaida Richardson. Ava Felton, Daily Maples and Brantlie Charmasson had one ace each.