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The El Reno City Council last week adopted a plan designed to transform Sunset Drive from Choctaw to Country Club as the “official vision of the city.” Council also said farewell to two long-serving members.

The Sunset vote was unanimous and could possibly move the city closer to making the changes recommended in the plan that was created by the University of Oklahoma Institute for Quality Communities with direction from Oklahoma City architect Michael Hoffner of Hoffner Design Studios.

Jana L. Knott will serve a three-year term on the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Board of Governors starting January 2023.

She will be part of the OBA’s 17-member Board of Governors, which meets monthly and governs the association.   

She will represent Supreme Court Judicial District Nine, which consists of Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and Tillman counties. 

Knott joined Bass Law in 2018, where her practice focuses primarily on appellate litigation, advocacy, briefing and consultation.

Despite facing an opponent supported by tens of millions of dollars in dark-money political advertisements, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt decisively won a second term Tuesday night, finishing with more than 55 percent of the vote and momentum heading into another four years of potential conflict with the groups that most opposed his re-election.

Brian Rukes is relentless.

When it comes to honoring the American veterans who gave their lives in service to freedom and this nation, Rukes simply will not be distracted. He especially wants to remember and recognize those who once sat in an El Reno Public Schools classroom.

A reception to honor Matt White on his 15 years of service as mayor of El Reno will be held Thursday at the Public Safety Center off SW 27th Street.

Billed as the “Thanks a Lot, Matt White” reception, the come-and-go event will be from 4 to 6 p.m.

Eariler that day, White and El Reno School Superintendent Matt Goucher are scheduled to host the El Reno Now gathering, also at the Public Safety Center. El Reno Now begins at 7:30 a.m.

Many people have watched the hit series Yellowstone, or at least have heard of the series. What many may not know is Christian Wassana, a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, will be debuting in his first acting role in Season 5, set to begin Sunday, Nov. 13.

Wassana’s character will be introduced in Season 5 of Yellowstone.