October 2025

LAWSUITS

U.S. Bank Trust National Association vs. Lon Darley III and Janis Darley for $124,900.79 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 3, Block 47, Surrey Hills Addition 6, Oklahoma City.

Capital One N.A. vs. John Thibodeau for $11,697.94 to pay a debt plus interest and costs.

Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC vs. Jessica Langford for $255,363.15 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 4, Block 2, Twin Oaks Canyon Phase II Addition, Oklahoma City.

Peggy Josephine Zehr was born Sept. 26, 1936, in Shamrock, Oklahoma, to Richard and Hazel (Owensby) Cooper. She passed away Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, at the age of 89. She grew up in Torrance, California, and graduated from Narbonne High School in Harbor City, Calif., where she was a twirler in the band that marched in the Rose Bowl Parade.

Admittedly I was not a fan of the design or aspects of the new coliseum at the Oklahoma City Fair Park when it was first announced.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Basketball and wrestling state championships for all classifications in the state for basketball and wrestling will be decided in the Oklahoma City metroplex through the year 2030.

The Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association announced a new five-year deal between the OG&E Coliseum at OKC Fair Park and the University of Oklahoma’s Lloyd Noble Center to host the championship tournaments beginning in 2026.

El Reno High School’s football team (2-5) has three games left in the regular season.

The Indians were slated to play John Marshall at Memorial Stadium.

Here is the latest Associated Press’ Oklahoma High School Football Poll. Records through Oct. 21.

El Reno Tribune Sports Editor Glen Miller is a voting panel member.

Class 6A-I
Place/Team (Rec) Previous
1. Bixby (7-0) 1
2. Jenks (6-1) 2
3. Owasso (5-2) 3
4. Broken Arrow (5-2) NR
5. Mustang (5-2) NR
Others receiving votes: 6, Edmond Memorial 5. 7, Norman 4.

Redlands Community College women’s soccer team closed out the regular season with a 2-0 win over Northeastern Oklahoma A&M at Memorial Stadium.

The Cougars made the NJCAA Region 2 Championships for the first time since 2018 and play Thursday (10/30) in Enid.

A 25-year-old El Reno man was taken into custody last week after police said he was responsible for the incident that put a veteran officer in an Oklahoma City hospital where he is listed in critical condition. 

A prayer vigil was held Sunday evening in downtown El Reno for Sgt. Thomas Duran, a 14-year veteran of the department.

Duran is reported to be in the Intensive Care Unit at OU Medical Center. 

The El Reno City Council approved a zoning change for property at 16399 W. Highway 66 where it’s expected a landscape design business plans to locate. 

Site One Landscape Supply requested the zoning change from Rural Agricultural District (A-1) to Moderate Industrial District (I-2) and Commercial Office District (CO). Council unanimously approved the request. 

A representative for the company said Site One Landscape Supply has operations in several states. He applauded the City of El Reno as being one of the more business-friendly towns the firm has worked with.

Red Tulip Designs is a female and veteran-owned business based in EI Reno.

The firm was named the REI Business Lending Direct Borrow of the Year at a recent event celebrating businesses supported by REI, an economic development program that supports Oklahoma businesses.