Maple School April Students of the Month, front row from left, Andie Fudge, pre-kindergarten; Legend Gatz, second grade; Brinlee Bland, third grade; Aniyah Chaffin, first grade; and Penelope Badillo, kindergarten; second row, Cale Wedman, fourth grade; McCray Whitman, seventh grade; Alice Park, eighth grade; Raina Crawford, fifth grade; and Audrey Eisenhour, sixth grade.
LAWSUITS
Discover Bank vs. Randall Franklin for $17,947.05 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.
Nationstar Mortgage LLC vs. Michael George for $87,062.69 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 28, Block 2, Westbury Addition, Oklahoma City.
FundBox Inc. vs. Travis Tech for $38,226.17 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.
TD Bank N.A. vs. Kyle Edgar for $24,550.23 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.
BLANCHARD – Cooper Park had just one desire over the final 18 holes of the 2024 Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association’s Class 5A Boys Golf Championships – post a sub-80 score.
The El Reno High School senior came within inches of doing just that as his 14-foot par putt on the 18th green rolled just past the cup. Park would tap in for a bogey and final round of 80.
“It was just the putting. I just needed to turn those three putts into two putts,” said Park.
Local seniors will have little time off before taking the diamond again with six players earning roster spots for the two outings of the Western Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association’s All-Star Games.
Being played Wednesday in Weatherford, El Reno High School will be represented by Grady Lesperance and Austin Castanon in the Large School Game at 4 p.m.
Calumet will have four players in the Small School Game at 7 p.m. Those selections are Hunter Arnold, Dalton Belcher, Hunter Navanick and Derrick Krantzman.
Redlands Community College’s baseball team may have lost the war in its season-ending series against No.14 Western Oklahoma State College, but the Cougars did win one battle – in a big way.
Cade Sims, a redshirt freshman from Waxahachie, Texas, tossed a no-hitter against the Pioneers in a 3-0 win between losses of 16-10 and 5-0. It was the first no-hitter of the season for a RCC pitcher and the first since Josh Harrell in 2019.
Wet weather for the 36th Annual El Reno Burger Day Festival did not keep the world’s largest onion-fried burger from hitting the grill to the delight of thousands of hungry visitors.
See Saturday’s edition for more coverage.
Each year, Janice Cox dreams of setting a record for the National Letter Carriers Association Food Drive in El Reno.
And each year she comes up a bit short.
But this Saturday, May 11, is a new drive and maybe, just maybe, that elusive 10,000-pound goal the veteran letter carrier has set in her mind will be achieved.
Cox has been coordinating the Letter Carriers Food Drive in El Reno for the past 18 years. She would love to hit the 10,000-pound mark for donated food items.
Two new windows have been installed at the Historic Fort Reno Visitors Center.
Debra Kauffman, president of Historic Fort Reno Inc. and full-time volunteer, said 23 windows in the building need to be replaced.
“So far, this is only the beginning,” she said.
Kauffman said Historic Fort Reno, a nonprofit organization, received a $50,000 grant from T-Mobile to purchase windows. That grant will cover replacement of 11 windows, she said.
