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One more hurdle in the process was cleared when Canadian County commissioners approved a resolution for “intersection modifications” at Banner Road and State Highway 66.

The project agreement is between Canadian County District 1 and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.

The estimated $400,000 project is on ODOT’s September bid letting schedule.

The resolution outlines ODOT’s engineering, land acquisition and construction responsibilities.

The intersection will become a permanent four-way stop, District 1 Commissioner Tom Manske said.

Actors and a filming crew from Boiling Point Media, based out of Oklahoma City, were back in El Reno last week to shoot scenes for the third installment of the Jurassic Pet series.

The movie, according to Boiling Point’s Chris Hoyt, is titled The Adventures of Jurassic Pet 3: Return to the Wild. It’s the second time parts of the city have been used as backdrops for the series.

Filming will return to locations in El Reno in early August.

Hoyt said the crew and actors are non-union and not affected by the current strikes in Hollywood by actors and screenwriters.

Truth matters.

The story of what really happened on Nov. 29, 1864, at the Sand Creek Massacre site in Eads, Colo., is being told through an exhibition titled “The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal That Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever.”

In a booming eastern Canadian County, families are a driving force of development.

Families move in for the schools, for the houses and for the communities, said Carol Hefner, the spokeswoman for a development that has landed a future amphitheater that will bring family entertainment to the area.

Students from Yukon’s St. John Nepomuk Catholic School helped out at The Lord’s Harvest last week in what founder and director Nikki Pruitt called a “wonderful blessing.”

The Lord’s Harvest is an El Reno food ministry founded and operated by Pruitt, her family members and community volunteers.

The St. John’s students helped stock shelves, unload trucks and scrubbed pallets used to stack food items.

Organizers asked that only the first name and initial be used to identify the students.

WASHINGTON – Despite heated comments and opposition from minority Democrats, the House Appropriations Committee has adopted a Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Bill for the 2024 fiscal year.

Subcommittee chairman Tom Cole (R, Moore) said Oklahoma will be in line for a significant amount of funding under the legislation.