Maple School’s girls basketball team earned a second straight trip to the Oklahoma Rural Elementary Schools state tournament with a runner-up finish in the Division III West Championship.
The Eagles open state Thursday at Shawnee against Moffett. Tipoff is set for 6 p.m.
While pushing its win streak to 20 games, Calumet High School’s boys basketball team clinched the title in the 2023 Washita Valley Conference Shootout with an 85-28 win over cross-county rival Union City.
Calumet, ranked fourth in Class B, improved to 22-1 on the season with the win over the Tigers. Union City had its six-game win streak snapped in the loss, slipping to 18-4 overall.
Dalton Belcher led the Chieftains in scoring with 18 points, while adding four steals, three assists and two rebounds.
Hunter Arnold chipped in 15 points and four rebounds.
Chelsea Reed enjoys singing about as much as she loves to teach, so it was only natural she merge the two worlds inside her classroom at Rose Witcher Learning Center.
“I love to sing to my kids and we do a lot of movement in the classroom every day,” said Reed.
“They don’t all learn the same. Some are visual learners, some learn by hearing and others by movement. First-graders can’t sit still for very long and it’s very challenging to keep them entertained, so we do a lot of movement and extra things because not only are they learning, but they are exercising.”
The El Reno Chamber of Commerce will partner with the El Reno Tribune to host a candidate forum, this time for the upcoming El Reno Public School Board election.
The Chamber and Tribune hosted a candidate forum for the November city council and mayoral race and like the earlier one, the school board forum will be held at Redlands Community College.
The forum is set for 6:30 p.m. Feb. 7. It will run for one hour.
Proponents of a $4 million bond issue at Riverside School call the election “historic.”
Since it appears the only other time the dependent pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade school on Foreman Road held a bond election was in 1968, that may be a fitting description.
Lisa Derryberry, Riverside superintendent, said the bond issue supported at the beginning of the Nixon administration in ‘68 was for $35,000.
Times have changed.
Oklahoma’s business taxes are not a major factor in business expansion or relocation decisions, but the state’s personal income tax remains a challenge cited by many business officials, according to a review conducted by the Oklahoma Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT).
Oklahoma State Treasurer Todd Russ sent a letter and questionnaire to a list of national financial institutions, including fund managers and banks, to determine which companies “boycott energy companies” in Oklahoma.
Russ said this move is the first step in compiling the list of companies Oklahoma government entities are prohibited from doing business with because of their environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies.
One question will appear on the March 7, 2023, Special Election Ballot.
This initiative petition was placed on the ballot by gathering signatures from citizens.
The question is reprinted here as it will appear on the ballot followed by a brief summary
State Question 820:
Legalizing recreational use of marijuana for persons 21 or older.
INITIATIVE PETITION 434
STATE QUESTION 820
