El Reno’s junior high football teams played their final home games of the 2022 season last week against Noble in Suburban Conference action.
The seventh-grade team improved to 2-4 on the season with a 36-0 shutout of the Bears after getting a pair of 30-yard touchdown runs from Leo Willis in the first period
and a 4-yard touchdown from Brent Parker before half.
Playing through 41-degree temperatures and wind speeds in double digits, Redlands Community College’s golf team wrapped up its fall slate with a fourth-place finish at the 2022 NJCAA Women’s National Preview.
Playing the Buffalo Dunes Golf Course in Garden City, Kan., the Cougars posted a 36-hole total of 616 (303/313) to beat Iowa Western (637) and Coffeyville (875) community colleges.
Redlands was eight strokes out of third but well off the winning pace of 586 by Odessa College, Texas.
Redlands Community College’s soccer team ended a tough four-match stretch over seven days with a 3-0 loss to undefeated and league-leading Seminole State College, ranked third in the nation.
The loss gave SSC the season sweep over the Cougars but the match was scoreless at half and showed marked improvement for Redlands – which lost to the Trojans 9-0 less than a month earlier.
It was just the sixth time in 13 matches for SSC to be held to under five goals.
Running on a fast Texas course in Wichita Falls, Redlands Community College’s cross country team posted a pair of 12th-place finishes at the 2022 Mustang Derby, hosted by Midwestern State University.
“It was a fast course and we had some great times and faced some great higher division competition,” said RCC head coach Natalie Graves.
The Redlands men ran the 8-kilometer (4.97-mile) course with an overall time of two hours and 30 minutes, with an average runner time of 30:03 en route to a 320 points total.
Downtown El Reno will be the spooky place to be the last week of October as the annual Spooktacular returns. The colorful Main Street event will be preceded by a new Haunted Trolley Rides event courtesy of the El Reno Arts Council.
The Haunted Trolley Rides will take place from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25. Ticket holders will board the Heritage Express Trolley at 317 S. Grand.
The ride downtown will include a spooky tour through the area and features the El Reno Haunted Barn where a cast of goblins and surprises awaits.
A state grant has funded 20 new portable radios for Canadian County sheriff’s deputies.
The Canadian County Sheriff’s Office recently was awarded a 2023 Safe Oklahoma Grant totaling $62,355.
The grant program has distributed $2 million among 58 law enforcement agencies across Oklahoma.
Canadian County’s $62,355 grant award – the third largest in Oklahoma this year – was used to purchase 20 new 800-megahertz (MHz) radios.
A proposed upgrade at the Canadian County Assessor’s Office will provide property owners with better online access to detailed information about property values and other data.
The assessor’s office plans to convert to a new Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal (CAMA) system.
Estimated cost is $250,000 to $300,000 to cover the conversion and ongoing maintenance.
As farmers and ranchers across Oklahoma are dealing with the financial repercussions of the 2022 drought, Oklahoma State University Extension is stepping in to help ease some of the financial strain.
From Oct. 5 through Dec. 31, the Soil, Water and Forage Analytical Laboratory at OSU is offering reduced costs for nitrate toxicity, forage and feed testing and livestock water testing.
