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Music, burgers and parade highlight All Classes Homecoming Rally

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El Reno High School will host an All Classes Alumni Homecoming Day Rally on Friday.

The event will begin at 8:30 a.m. at Jenks Simmons Field House, with a get-together open to all EHS grads and guests.

At 9 a.m., a sign-in will be held with name tags and graduation year coordinated. There will be 1950s and ‘60s music as well as a roaming photographer.

At 10 a.m., Johnnie’s Food Truck will be available for a classic El Reno fried-onion hamburger and other food items.

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Homecoming court

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The 2023 El Reno High School All Sports Homecoming Ceremony will be held Friday night at 6:30 prior to the start of the home football game with Elgin at Memorial Stadium.

One of these EHS male and female students will be crowned king and queen.

Each sport and the marching band at the high school, if they choose to participate, select a king and queen candidate to compete for the title, with winners picked by voting by the student body. 

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State’s mental health hospital to relocate

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OKLAHOMA CITY — State health officials have announced plans to relocate the state’s largest inpatient mental health treatment facility to Oklahoma City from Norman, where it has stood for more than a century. 

The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services said a $147 million replacement facility for Griffin Memorial Hospital will be built on the Oklahoma State University’s Oklahoma City campus near Interstate 44 and West Reno Avenue.

Lankford, others question FBI

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), along with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and other Republican senators sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after new evidence surfaced in August contradicting FBI Director Wray’s March 8, 2023, testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Public Records - 9/20/2023

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MARRIAGE LICENSES

William Melvin Thomas, 52; Amy Louise Paskoff, 49.

Caleb Michael Case, 29; Tori Breann Dodson, 27.

Morgan Mark McClelland, 59; Kelley Renee Collingwood, 52.

Kade Michael Woods, 22; Keleigh Jayne Koehn, 20.

Mario Palacios Barragan, 31; Carla Faride Gallegos Villalba, 49.

Justin Dewayne Stamper, 42; Carrie Lynn Pittman, 46.

Alfred Jamie Decoteau, 60; Andrea Denise Selph, 58.

Jariel Alberto Padilla-Agosto, 28; Karina Tanon De Jesus, 28.

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Let the real games begin

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While it may seem odd calling three regular-season games your preseason, that’s just the philosophy being taken by El Reno High School’s football team coming out of its bye week.

“We’re excited to get into district play. District games are what gets you into the postseason and the first three games were our preseason. Now it’s time to take them one game at a time and go from there,” said El Reno head coach Russell Cook.

El Reno had last week off due to its zero week defeat of Chickasha in the U.S. 81 Battle.

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Redlands road woes with Region 2 leaders continue in shutout loss

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Facing the second of three matches against the upper echelon of the NJCAA Region 2 standings, Redlands Community College women’s soccer team was handed another shutout loss by Seminole State. The Trojans dropped Redlands to 1-6 on the season and 1-5 in the standings with a 7-0 win, which was the program’s 100th.

Redlands was limited to two shots, one each from El Reno natives Carlie Golden and Payton Brickey.

Kaitlynn Runnels was in net for the Cougars, allowing all seven goals against 17 saves.

RCC will host NEO Sunday at 2 p.m.