PIEDMONT – Three upper-weight wins allowed El Reno High School’s boys wrestling team to avoid being shut out in a 50-15 road duel loss to Piedmont – ranked No.7 in Class 6A.
El Reno dropped its fifth straight outing, all to top-15 teams, and slipped to 1-5 on the season.
El Reno lost four weights by falls and a fifth by technical fall. The team also forfeited three weights, which added 18 points to Piedmont’s total.
Luis Moreno was 7 years old when his mother brought him to El Reno. They came from Mexico. That was in 2001. His father was already living here. The young family was reunited.
Moreno would grow up, graduate from El Reno High School and help care for his four younger siblings, all who were born here.
He met a young woman. They had a baby. Now at 31, his young family is separated.
Homeland Security personnel stopped Moreno on Dec. 2, a couple of blocks from his El Reno home, said Jordan Evans.
El Reno plumbers are suggesting residents drip faucets in their homes during the upcoming cold weather.
With the forecasted arctic temperatures, residents should also consider a pencil lead-sized stream, say plumbers.
An Oklahoma City advisory board has OK’d a request to rezone property in far west Oklahoma City adjacent to Yukon city limits that would allow development of a 480-acre data center campus.
The Oklahoma City Planning Commission, at its Jan. 15 meeting, voted 7-0 to recommend approval of two planned unit development (PUD) applications rezoning 111.5 acres at 3025 N. Frisco Road and 184 acres at 13921 NW 23rd Street in Oklahoma City Ward 3. The applicant is BLE (Beltline Energy) Landholdings, a renewable energy developer based in Atlanta, Ga.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma’s public utilities and transportation agencies say they are prepared for dangerously cold temperatures, snow and ice moving into the state.
The brunt of the storm is expected to hit Friday and continue through the weekend, according to the National Weather Service. Some will see low temperatures in the single digits.
A Canadian County teen has pleaded guilty to an attempted hold-up last month at a local convenience store.
Gary Justin Johnson, 18, entered that plea Jan. 9 to an amended charge of attempted larceny from a person after a plea agreement with the district attorney’s office.
Johnson originally was charged Dec. 19, 2025, in Canadian County District Court with attempted robbery with a weapon stemming from a Dec. 13 incident at 7-Eleven, 1601 S. Mustang Road.
The City of El Reno has created a map for travel as a major winter storm is expected to hit the area over the weekend.
El Reno High School December Students of the Month are, Layni Wright, Preston Ashford, Kyndall Couch, Easton Ray, Aspen Witherspoon, Gavin Grissom, Amy Puente and Codee Skaggs.
