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Union City High School’s girls basketball team slipped to the .500 mark in conference play, closing out the 2023 portion of its schedule with a 41-31 loss to Thomas/Fay-Custer.

The 10-point setback to the league’s newcomer left the Tigers with an 8-5 overall record and a 3-3 mark in the Washita Valley Conference standings.

The setback came on the heels of a 51-20 homecoming win over Mulhall-Orlando in non-conference action.

Calumet’s Hunter Arnold was honored recently for reaching the 1,000-point mark for career scoring.

Just a few games after teammate Hunter Arnold surpassed 1,000 career points, Calumet senior Dalton Belcher reached the milestone in the Chieftains win over Thomas/Fay-Custer in Washita Valley Conference action.

Jett Mueggenborg popped off a season-high 31 points as Okarche High School’s boys basketball team posted its best offensive night of the season to close out 2023.

The Warriors, ranked fifth in Class A, moved to 6-2 on the season with a 97-32 win over Watonga. It was Okarche’s highest point total of the season but the fifth game with more than 70 points and the second over 90 points.

The 65-point winning margin was the widest of the season, surpassing the 57-point decision (74-17) over Coyle and the 52-point win over Lomega (95-43).

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Colsen Girty was smiling down from heaven over the weekend as one of his dreams became reality.

With the help of his mother, Whitney Sides, the El Reno Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 151 was able to provide 45 area children with a brighter holiday season through the 16th Annual Christmas With a Cop.

Girty was killed in a car accident in 2021 at the age of 10, but his mother said one of his dreams was to give Christmas presents to children in El Reno. In his memory, Sides created a trust to honor that wish and funded it with a charity event earlier this year.

El Reno city leaders officially celebrated the beginning of the municipal Internet system being created by lighting up a sign outside of City Hall.

Mayor Steve Jensen turned on the lighted sign promoting the infrastructure project as council members, city staff and the crew working to build out the system applauded.

Known as El Reno Fast Connect, the more than $3 million city-owned Internet system is now available to some 270 homes. Assistant City Manager Tim Young said four businesses along Country Club have also signed on to the system.

Note: Knowing Jolly Old St. Nicholas is a subscriber and reads the El Reno Tribune each edition, the staff decided to help him out and deliver local children’s Letters to Santa in print. Letters will appear over the next few editions but in time for his Christmas Eve flight from the North Pole.