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The city of El Reno was awarded a grant for more than $640,000 and promptly bought a new street sweeper and a couple of dump trucks. 

The funds came from an Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality program that was created from the Volkswagen Clean Diesel Settlement.

The funding will support the replacement of aging municipal fleet vehicles with newer, cleaner and more efficient models.

The new street sweeper replaces a 1999 model. It was purchased for $369,295, while the two medium-duty dump trucks cost more than $135,000 each. 

Redlands Community College will celebrate its new mural with a ribbon-cutting.

The event will be 10 a.m. Monday at RCC.

Titled the Spirit of Redlands, the 16’x73’ mural painted on the east wall of the gymnasium will give the public the opportunity to meet artist Tox Murrillo, who designed and painted it.

The creation is a tribute to RCC’s 11 competitive teams and honors the school’s contributions to education, community and the path ahead. 

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma has made drastic improvements in reducing the number of structurally deficient bridges and now ranks fourth in the nation for favorable conditions, the head of the state’s transportation agency said.

The new ranking is a marked improvement from over two decades ago when Oklahoma ranked 49th and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation had nearly 1,200 structurally deficient bridges, said Tim Gatz, the agency’s executive director.

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ID Wholesaler vs. U.S. Technologies Inc. for $14,629.64 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Velocity Investments LLC vs. Myron Gordon for $11,758.59 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Jefferson Capital Systems LLC vs. Andrew Smith for $11,611.01 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Ronald Perez-Medina vs. Oleg Dimov and Taylor Gunnar for an amount in excess of $75,000 for injuries and damages alleged to have occurred during an automobile accident.

When state schools were allowed to open preseason workouts July 15, El Reno High School volleyball coach Kristin Koehler faced a puzzling situation.

With the majority of her team at Falls Creek Church Camp for a week, Koehler had to choose between holding practices with a limited number of players or delay the start of workouts.

While scaled down dramatically from their life-sized crafts, size is about the only real difference between remote-controlled racing and the competitions found on either the drag boat or offshore powerboat circuits.

More than 100 R/C boat racers descended on Lake El Reno last week for the inaugural Oklahoma Shootout. They came from six different states, the furthest California, driving campers and pulling trailers filled with boats, supplies and replacement parts.

El Reno faced Union City in a home scrimmage last week.

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