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Riverside Principal’s Honor Roll for the first semester, front row, Bailey Ashley, Sawyer Baker, Jace Abshire, Rosario Ramos, Alice Schumacher, Colten Price and Carolyn Trujillo; second row, DonTrel Webb, Westley Wilkerson, Ramiro Valdez, Dawson Sneed, Jose Zuniga, Shayla Altizer, Haley Al-Mufleh, Avery Cameron, Sassy Brushwood and Lathen Childers; third row, Maddax Lehman, James Hudson IV, Abel Kerr, Dax Macias, Korbyn Kraft and Lexi Matias; back row, Alexi Evans, Auttum McLearen, Greyson Imoe, Michael Queen, Aldo Saldana, Emily Saldana and Maggie Calzada.

Riverside Superintendent’s Honor Roll for the first semester, front row, Isaac Shropshire, Malachi Lockler, Emma Royse, Kamryn Rucker, Alx Grant, Brylee DuPris, Gisela Madai and Avry Royse; back row, Nahla Cabrera, Piper Sneed, Camrynn Foster, Makay Wooten and Beau Hernandez.

Lamplighters OHCE of Canadian County met recently at a local church. Carol Stine opened the meeting and led members in the flag salute. Maxine Little read minutes from the previous meeting, with Patricia Morrison giving the treasury report.

A thank-you card was read from the sheriff’s department for the blanket throws that were given to them. The officers keep them in their patrol cars for children or adults in crisis situations.

Yearbooks were passed out and leader lessons were assigned for the coming year. Janice Taylor presented the lesson titled “Our Brain Health.”

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Southwestern Bell Telephone Company vs. Pathfinder HDD LLC for $14,753.38 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Guild Mortgage Company LLC vs. Heather Renee Walton n/k/a Heather Renee Bradley for $74,535.28 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 6, Block 2, Jerome Addition, El Reno.

El Reno High School’s basketball teams had only one date scheduled last week, a road trip to state-ranked Kingfisher.

However, those games were canceled due to winter weather and have been rescheduled for Feb. 13. Game times will be 6:30 p.m. for varsity girls and 8 p.m. for boys.

Both teams will return to action Tuesday night at Lawton MacArthur.

El Reno High School’s wrestling team headed west to California recently as one of two programs from Oklahoma to compete in the 2023 MidCals Classic – placing fifth overall.

The 68-team tournament is hosted by Gilroy High School, south of San Jose, which is coached by former NCAA All-American and UFC champion Daniel Cormier. He wrestled at Oklahoma State for two seasons with El Reno head coach Tyrone Lewis and both trained on the Olympic circuit from 2004 through 2008.

Maple School will see plenty of basketball this weekend as the dependent school west of El Reno hosts the west area basketball playoffs for Divisions II and III in the Oklahoma Rural Education System Playoffs.

Superintendent Chuck Hood said Maple would play host to the games starting Jan. 28, and continuing Jan. 30 and Feb. 2 and 3.

Hood said 24 games will be played at the Maple gymnasium, with teams from Darlington, White Rock, Robin Hill, Maple, Oak Grove, Riverside, Banner, Middleberg, Friend and Pleasant Grove competing.

Okarche High School’s girls basketball team seems to be hitting a late-season stride as the Warriors have put together a double-digit win streak after beating Class A’s 18th-ranked Okeene 61-24 in the title game of the Coyle Invitational.

The 37-point win pushed Okarche’s current win streak to 10 games as the Warriors, ranked seventh in the same Class A poll, improved to 16-4 on the season.

Okarche, which has scored no less than 49 points in any game over the win streak, defeated Mulhall-Orlando (91-31) and Southwest Covenant School (73-38) to reach the Coyle finale.