October 2025

To the Editor: I don’t think it matters if you have lived here three to five years, or 30 to 50 years, you have to be pretty impressed with what you see going on all around you.

Estelle Bushyhead of Edmond passed away Oct. 16, 2025, in Guthrie. She was born July 16, 1937, in Sentinel to Latrelle and Chester Mayrhofen.She was raised in El Reno. In 1955, she married Robert Bushyhead. In 1965, they moved to Edmond where they were lifelong residents.

LAWSUITSMidland Credit Management Inc. vs. Randy Skinner for $17,000.52 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.Tania Landgraf and David Landgraf vs. Allstate Indemnity Company for an amount in excess of $75,000 for alleged actual and punitive damages.Capital One N.A. vs. John Johnson...

Playing through a steady rain for three and a half quarters, El Reno High School’s football team stayed in the hunt for a berth in the postseason with a 66-8 blowout of John Marshall.El Reno moved to 3-5 overall with its largest winning margin of the season.

Services for Gary Osborne are pending with Huber-Benson Funeral Home.Gary died Oct. 23, 2025, at his home in El Reno. 

Second-half goals from Paige Treat and Ashanti Lewis lifted Redlands Community College women’s soccer team to a 2-0 win over Northeastern Oklahoma A&M.By winning the regular-season finale, the Cougars charge into the NJCAA Region 2 Championship for the first time since 2018 as the third seed out of...

Editor’s Note: These remarks and prayers were delivered Sunday evening at the community vigil for Sgt. Thomas Duran by his friend and fellow officer, Lt. James Ramey.

A statement from Mark NelsonPresident, Oklahoma Fraternal Order of Police With the permission of the Duran family, and at the request of Chief Brown and the El Reno Fraternal Order of Police, I want to update everyone who has been praying and sending well wishes for Sgt. Thomas Duran, a 14-year...

With demolition of Canadian County’s old administrative office building starting next week, a groundbreaking ceremony for a new county courthouse will be planned for January.The four-story, 112,407-square-foot courthouse is expected to open by mid-2027.After recently approving the building’s final...