Gladys Van Buskirk celebrated her 107th birthday on Nov. 6. She has lived on the same road all of these years.
When she was a little girl, Gladys would get a new pair of shoes and she told her mother she wanted to walk to Harry’s house to show them to her friend.
Her mother would walk with her the three-fourths- mile trek to Harry’s house where little Gladys would show off her new shoes.
Riverside October Citizens of the Month are Archer Kerr, Isaac Benson, Colton Price, Izzy Vincent, Camryn Rinehart, Greyson Walker, Alivia Ontiveros, Arrelyn Muskett and Dreydan Shawnee.
Also, Solomon Baker, Hazel Dillion, Rylee Deshields, Greyson Perez, Kason Ward, Lane Clark, Yitzel Casanova, Shane Funk, Kevin Factor and Whitney Sneed.
Acknowledging their decision was practically a toss-up, Canadian County commissioners selected a company to conduct the county’s bridge inspections for a two-year period.
Commissioners voted 3-0 Monday to use CEC Corporation of Oklahoma City to perform routine bridge safety inspections in the county from April 1, 2026, to March 31, 2028.
Commissioners recently interviewed vendors from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s pre-qualified bridge inspector list.
The El Reno Wranglers recently held their October meeting, with Trisha Duncan opening with the flag salute and Gary Sorrells leading in prayer.
The group discussed the upcoming Veterans Day Parade and the annual Thanksgiving dinner/auction set for Nov. 16.
The club nominated and voted in new officers and board members. They are as follows: Julie Huber, president; Gary Sorrells, vice president; Betty Johnston, historian; Queen Trisha Duncan and Princess Lidy Novak.
On May 18, 53-year-old Carl Kachel stepped into line for a routine blood sugar check in the Cleveland County Detention Center. They turned out to be his last steps.
Jailed on a 16-year-old Jackson County warrant with a $1,000 bond, Kachel’s end came after a string of evictions that also began in 2009. The last one on record was filed on Dec. 2, 2020, by Brigid Kennedy, one of thousands she filed in central Oklahoma that year.
EDMOND – Set to run alone and having some butterflies in her stomach, El Reno High School junior Lilly Owen admits she was feeling anxious before her biggest race of the season.
“I was really nervous at first,” said Owen.
Then the gun sounded to start the 2025 Class 5A Girls Oklahoma State Cross Country Championships and those nerves simply vanished.
Both Union City High School basketball teams jumped into the win column to start the 2025-26 season, defeating Verden on the road.
The boys posted a 67-63 win after outscoring Verden 20-12 in the third period to erase a one-point halftime deficit, 32-31. The eight-point spread was key as VHS tried to rally behind a 19-16 break in the fourth.
A see-saw battle ended on a sour note as Redlands Community College women’s basketball team dropped its season opener to Kansas-based Neosho County 75-71.
Redlands trailed 16-15 after one period and it remained a one-possession game until late in the second period. The Panthers hit several 3-pointers to cap a 16-12 run and took a 32-27 lead into halftime.
The Cougars battled back in the third period with a 26-24 edge to close the gap to 56-53, but Neosho County outscored RCC 19-18 over the final 10 minutes.
