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While cutting down the deficit margin, Redlands Community College men’s basketball team’s recent struggles to get into the win column continued last week with a 79-72 setback to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M.

The Cougars were slated to play at Seminole State on Thursday and will make up a home game with Northern Oklahoma College of Enid on Saturday, with tipoff at 7 p.m.

Redlands has lost two games in a row and four of its last five by an average margin of 15 points. The setback to the Golden Norsemen was the closest of the four losses.

The first El Reno Now breakfast of 2023 featured some new hosts, but continued with the familiar theme of promoting all that is good about El Reno.

Mayor Steve Jensen, along with School Superintendent Matt Goucher and City Manager Matt Sandidge served as hosts for the event.

El Reno Now was created in 2018 as a monthly event by former Mayor Matt White and now retired Superintendent Craig McVay.

The format has been adjusted to a quarterly get-together and several businesses have been added as breakfast sponsors.

City leaders took the next step in securing funding for major improvements at the El Reno Regional Airport when a resolution supporting several projects received unanimous support from the city council.

The vote came during a special meeting of the council and the Airpark Authority. The bodies are comprised of the same council members.

Councilman Pete Stapperfend made the motion to support the resolution and newly appointed councilwoman Amy Neathery provided the second.

The vice president of Economic Development for the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce said El Reno and Canadian County should be prepared to see more growth in the coming years.

Jeff Seymour spoke at last week’s El Reno Now breakfast. He said Canadian County is one of the fastest, if not the fastest-growing counties in the United States.

Seymour said the I-35 corridor stretching from Texas through Oklahoma and to Kansas City is the fastest-growing area in the nation in terms of job creation and population expansion.

El Reno’s Merritt Dotson pushes the accelerator handles all the way forward on her sitting electric three-wheeled scooter over the weekend at Rinehart Park.

Temperatures were in the mid-60s on Saturday but dropped into the 20s on Sunday as the city braced for its second round of winter weather.

Canadian County commissioners agreed to proceed with finalizing an agreement to use a construction manager for a proposed repair/remodeling project at the historic county jail.

Yukon’s Erick Westfahl of Redhawk Construction has been tapped to provide construction management services for the old jail building, at the corner of Rogers and Evans.

New State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters unveiled a budget plan for Oklahoma schools that would increase state school spending by $330 million.

Under Walters’ proposal, the state appropriation for schools would increase from $3.18 billion this year to $3.51 billion next year.

Walters’ critics responded by claiming the $330 million increase is actually a funding cut.

Banner School’s basketball teams recently competed in the Middleberg Invitational.