El Reno High School’s baseball team held a Little League Night recently at the Hub Reed Complex.
Players from the El Reno Young Guns took the field with their high school partners for the national anthem and then snagged foul balls during the game.
El Reno High School’s girls soccer team clinched a playoff berth last week with a 7-0 road win over Western Heights as the Indians remain locked in a tie for first place in District 5A-2.
The win was El Reno’s fourth straight shutout in league play as the Indians are now 5-0 in the 5A-2 standings and tied with Carl Albert, which visits Memorial Stadium Thursday night.
El Reno currently holds a lead over the Titans in tiebreaker points, 20-17, with Southeast (4-1/12) lurking close behind in third after a loss to Carl Albert last week.
Chances of making the playoffs for El Reno High School’s boys soccer team took a major blow last week as the Indians dropped a 2-1 road match to Western Heights.
The loss was the second straight in league play for El Reno, which slipped to 3-7 on the season and 1-4 in the District 5A-2 standings. The Indians are sitting in seventh place with two matches left, needing to leapfrog to fourth place to make the playoffs.
El Reno hosts district leader Southeast (5-0) and third-place Carl Albert (3-2) this week.
El Reno High School senior and two-time state qualifier Hannah Koen (center) signed a national letter of intent last week to wrestle at Baker University in Kansas.
Millions of Oklahomans looked toward the sky last week to watch the solar eclipse.
Parts of southeastern Oklahoma viewed a total eclipse, while much of the state, like El Reno, viewed in the 90 percent range.
Rumors that the city of El Reno is out to do away with A Small Town Weekend are greatly exaggerated.
That was the message from City Councilman Dr. Brian Shafer at last week’s council meeting.
While city leaders said the popular Route 66 event is important for the community in a number of ways, there are liability concerns.
Especially with the Sunday afternoon drag races.
City Manager Matt Sandidge said drag racing on Route 66 “gives our public safety officials and legal counsel concern.”
Around here, most know Jana Knott as the city attorney for El Reno. But further east, she’s known as being part of the legal team that is trying to secure some form of justice for the last known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Knott calls the experience “humbling.”
Because she specializes in appellate matters, Knott was asked to join the legal team representing Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Ford Fletcher, and the late Hughes Van Ellis Sr.
The Oklahoma City Council denied a rezoning request to allow a new outdoor amphitheater in eastern Canadian County. Council members voted 7-2 at their April 9 meeting against Planned Unit Development (PUD) 1983, which would have allowed the proposed Sunset Amphitheater in the 280-acre Mustang Creek Crossing development near the Kilpatrick Turnpike.
The eastern Canadian County site, which is now zoned agriculture, is west of Sara Road and north of S.W. 15th.
