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A civil suit filed by a contractor over the Canadian County Courthouse construction bidding process has been dismissed.

On Feb. 18, District Judge Paul Hesse signed an order granting Lingo Construction Services and the Canadian County Public Facilities Authority (CCPFA)’s motions to dismiss the case. A Feb. 20 hearing was stricken from the court docket.

Lingo and the CCPFA were named as defendants in the suit filed Jan. 2 in Canadian County District Court.

A former Mustang High School teacher will be in prison for at least 14.45 years after pleading no contest to six felony counts for his repeated sexual assaults of a high school student between December 2014 and June 2017.

Yukon’s Raymond Thomas Garner, age 63, became a convicted sex offender when he was formally sentenced Feb. 23 in Canadian County District Court.

Jamie Von Tungeln stopped by the Tribune last week and shared this note with me. 

“Most Sundays in 1967 and 1968, our mother, Dorothy Riley, baked this banana bread recipe. It was wrapped in wax paper and aluminum foil and put in a shoe box to mail, always adding a note of encouragement.

The smell of sewage was pungent in Teresa Ralls’ Oklahoma City apartment.

Following runner-up finishes at Little Axe, Dibble and Bethel meets, El Reno High School’s boys powerlifting team placed six lifters in the top five at the recent Chickasha Invitational.

The effort, a tuneup for the Oklahoma Powerlifting Coaches Association’s regional meet, left El Reno in third place in the large school standings with 111 points.

Edmond North (165) and Ardmore (141) had the top two spots, while El Reno edged Woodward (104) and 19 other schools.

El Reno High School will have three lifters in the Oklahoma Girls Powerlifting Coaches Association’s State Championships, which start Monday in Durant.

Competing in the North Regional, Brailynn Pawnee (105) took third place to punch her state ticket with a total weight of 430 pounds. Her best was a 195-pound deadlift, followed by a 155-pound squat and an 80-pound bench.

Izzy Birdsong was fifth in the same weight class with a 370-pound total. The senior had a 155-pound deadlift, a 135-pound squat and an 80-pound bench.

NOBLE - Critical-moment points and an untimely injury kept El Reno High School’s boys wrestling team from adding to its list of qualifiers for this weekend’s Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association’s Class 5A Wrestling State Championships.

Competing in the 5A West Regional, El Reno collected 85 points to take 10th in the standings.

Three grapplers secured state passes, while three more will serve as alternates.

El Reno High School senior Izzy Birdsong (center) recently signed to play college softball for the Royals of Ecclesia College.

The program plays on the NCAA Division I level and is based in Springdale, Ark.