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Proponents of a $4 million bond issue at Riverside School call the election “historic.”

Since it appears the only other time the dependent pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade school on Foreman Road held a bond election was in 1968, that may be a fitting description.

Lisa Derryberry, Riverside superintendent, said the bond issue supported at the beginning of the Nixon administration in ‘68 was for $35,000.

Times have changed.

Oklahoma’s business taxes are not a major factor in business expansion or relocation decisions, but the state’s personal income tax remains a challenge cited by many business officials, according to a review conducted by the Oklahoma Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT).

One question will appear on the March 7, 2023, Special Election Ballot.

This initiative petition was placed on the ballot by gathering signatures from citizens.

The question is reprinted here as it will appear on the ballot followed by a brief summary 

State Question 820: 
Legalizing recreational use of marijuana for persons 21 or older. 

INITIATIVE PETITION 434
STATE QUESTION 820

The first El Reno Now breakfast of 2023 featured some new hosts, but continued with the familiar theme of promoting all that is good about El Reno.

Mayor Steve Jensen, along with School Superintendent Matt Goucher and City Manager Matt Sandidge served as hosts for the event.

El Reno Now was created in 2018 as a monthly event by former Mayor Matt White and now retired Superintendent Craig McVay.

The format has been adjusted to a quarterly get-together and several businesses have been added as breakfast sponsors.

The vice president of Economic Development for the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce said El Reno and Canadian County should be prepared to see more growth in the coming years.

Jeff Seymour spoke at last week’s El Reno Now breakfast. He said Canadian County is one of the fastest, if not the fastest-growing counties in the United States.

Seymour said the I-35 corridor stretching from Texas through Oklahoma and to Kansas City is the fastest-growing area in the nation in terms of job creation and population expansion.

El Reno’s Merritt Dotson pushes the accelerator handles all the way forward on her sitting electric three-wheeled scooter over the weekend at Rinehart Park.

Temperatures were in the mid-60s on Saturday but dropped into the 20s on Sunday as the city braced for its second round of winter weather.