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Jason Little is living proof that just when you think you have everything under control, life can throw you a curve ball.

As it turns out, the pitch looked too good for the veteran coach not to take a swing.

El Reno High School’s new softball coach took the EHS job just a day after accepting the assistant coaching position at Piedmont High School under longtime friend and summertime collaborator Keith Coleman.

The switch was perpetrated by a chance email from El Reno Athletic Director Rodney Haydon.

Before heading off to Oklahoma State, El Reno High School graduate Ty Vincent had a little work left to be done with his playing career in baseball.

Vincent started for the North squad in the 2023 Western Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association’s Large School All-Star Game. The event was played at Radar Park in Weatherford.

“It was fun and it was pretty cool. It was the last time to play baseball before I moved on and I got to represent El Reno again in an All-Star game,” said Vincent.

While they still have a few more days of school remaining, El Reno High School held its graduation ceremony Saturday at Memorial Stadium.

There were 218 seniors making up the Class of 2023.

Speeches were heard from the seven students earning either valedictorian or salutatorian honors.

Memorial Day services will be held in El Reno, Fort Reno and Union City on Monday, May 29.

In El Reno, American Legion Post 34 will direct this year’s service. The Legion and VFW Post 382 alternate coordination of the annual ceremony each year.

Michael Pruitt, acting commander at the American Legion, said the service is set for 11 a.m. at the El Reno Cemetery.

Gaylord News In-depth reporters have spent the past year producing a one-hour television show marking the anniversary of the 2013 Moore and El Reno tornadoes that killed 33 people.

“Hell in the Heartland: 10 Years” examines those traumatic two weeks in May and explores what has happened in the years following the storms that changed Oklahoma forever. 

Initially developed five years ago as part of a student’s service-learning project, the Redlands Community College Student Food Pantry opened its doors to meet the needs of its students who were experiencing food insecurity.

Now, as one of six Oklahoma public colleges and universities selected to receive an inaugural grant through the Oklahoma Hunger-Free Campus Act pilot program, Redlands intends to expand the service and streamline the operation.

Dolores Williams and Cynthia Bennett were longtime educators with El Reno Public Schools. When these two women passed away, their families asked that memorials be sent to El Reno Public School Foundation, focusing on Rose Witcher and Hillcrest libraries.

Understanding the impact these two had on all grade levels, the Foundation requested a grant from the Mary Kay Ashbrook Foundation

MARRIAGE LICENSES

Aaron Emmanuel Hendrix, 23; Shaylynn Marie Fisher, 22.

Connor Creed Delaney, 21; Madchen Sage Dahlvang, 19.

Devin Hunter Price, 29; Courtney Dawn Bowie, 27.

Michael Royce Williams, 47; Karrie Newman-Arnhart, 46.

Kenneth Wayne McMullen, 35; Alexandria Paige Thompson, 33.

Roscoe K. Gardner, 83; Lois Ann Olivier, 79.

Zacheriah Kane Wills, 27; Celine Victoria Wodka, 22.

Bradford Chapman Ellsworth, 53; Melissa L. Ellsworth, 47.

Richard Sean Witten, 43; Heather Marie Rich, 41.