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As Missouri-based Mansion Entertainment Group attempts to tweak the design of the $2 billion American Heartland Theme Park and Resort it has proposed near Vinita, a Canadian firm hired to design the massive project has filed a lien claiming it is owed nearly $5.5 million from unpaid invoices. The filing comes as the Oklahoma Legislature continues to consider a $35 million request from the city of Vinita for water infrastructure upgrades to accommodate the project.

The Ladies Frisco Cemetery Association met recently for a luncheon at a Yukon restaurant.

The organization is celebrating 108 years.

President Pat McDaniel conducted the meeting. She welcomed everyone and called upon Mary Culver to read minutes of the December meeting as well as the treasury report.

The ladies discussed a newly installed bulletin board at the cemetery in a display case built by Cotton Ruzicka, chairman of the Frisco Cemetery Board.

It shows all the burial plots at Frisco Cemetery.

The 2024 Okarche High School baccalaureate program was held recently in the school gymnasium.

The program was hosted by the Okarche Apron Annies OHCE.

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It’s often said the best way forward, in an effort to create lasting change, is to take a step back.

That's just the path the El Reno School Board took last week, reaching into the past for its next high school varsity softball coach.

On the recommendation of Athletic Director Rodney Haydon, the board voted to hire Brianna Michalicka to replace Jason Little, who resigned earlier this spring.

Michalicka, whose maiden name is Dow, was impressive in her interview, said Haydon.

She was one of five interviewed for the position among the 19 coaches who applied.

Football is back, even for a limited time, and Russell Cook could not be happier.

“We are excited to get things going,” said Cook, who begins his third season at the helm of the Indians program.

El Reno High School kicked off its window for spring practices last week with a series of two-hour drills. The Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association allows schools 21 calendar days after the conclusion of all spring sports to hold football drills.

Four more El Reno High School athletes have signed national letters of intent to play at the college level next season. 

BlueSTEM AgriLearning Center recently held its 2024 Agriscience Symposium. The event showcased advanced experiential research projects conducted by students from El Reno, Calumet, Yukon, Mustang and Epic Charter high schools, all part of the BlueSTEM program.

The forum was held in the Austin Family Conference Center at Redlands Community College.

BlueSTEM is headquartered at Fort Reno. It was established in 2015. In the past nine years, 180 high school students and one middle school student have been part of the BlueSTEM program.