An engineering firm will be paid $90,836 in preparation for parking lot upgrades at two Canadian County buildings.
A contractor will be hired to rebuild parking lots outside the Canadian County Children’s Justice Center, 7905 E. State Highway 66, and Canadian County Assessor’s Office, 200 N. Choctaw.
County commissioners approved a service agreement with GUY Engineering Services for “design and geo-tech work” on the new parking lots.
Rylan Fleenor of El Reno is a new junior member of the American Angus Association, reports Mark McCully, Association CEO, with headquarters in St. Joseph, Mo.
Junior members of the Association are eligible to register cattle in the American Angus Association, participate in programs conducted by the National Junior Angus Association and take part in Association-sponsored shows and other national and regional events.
The American Angus Association is the largest beef breed association in the world, with more than 25,000 active adult and junior members.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Rhonda Baker, R-Yukon, said the initial allocation of Redbud School Funding Grants by the Oklahoma State Department of Education should help state schools, including El Reno Public Schools.
The department last week allotted half of $38.5 million to 330 brick-and-mortar public schools statewide.
The remainder will be distributed to qualifying schools this summer.
Since 2020, Congress has approved three rounds of federal COVID-bailout funding, providing more than $2 billion combined to Oklahoma school districts to mitigate viral spread, address challenges created by the pandemic, and reverse learning loss tied to COVID shutdowns.
But more than 70 percent of that money remains unspent today, according to figures presented to state lawmakers during a budget hearing for the Oklahoma State Department of Education.
EHS’ game at Noble last week was rescheduled for Feb. 17 due to winter weather.
EHS was to host Lawton MacArthur (Monday) and Guthrie (Tuesday) before traveling to Carl Albert on Friday.
Trading second-half scoring blitzes, Calumet High School’s boys basketball team outscored Union City 20-19 in the fourth period to hang on to defeat its cross-county rival 68-63.
The late-season meeting was for third place in the 2022 Washita Valley Conference Shootout. Calumet, ranked sixth in Class A, swept the season series with the Tigers after a 40-point win back in November.
The Chieftains head into the playoffs with a 19-6 record.
In a rather stunning outcome, Union City High School’s girls basketball team dropped a 35-29 decision to Gracemont in the fifth-place game of the 2022 Washita Valley Conference Shootout, hosted by Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
The score was a head-turner considering Union City had defeated the Lions by 25 points in the regular-season conference meeting and was riding a two-game win streak into the shootout.
Gracemont, meanwhile, had won only three games this season and only once since the turn of the new year.
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