A longtime Canadian County judge’s bailiff is being recognized for her outstanding career by having a conference room named in her honor inside the county courthouse.
Tammy Perando officially retired Jan. 31 after 27 years as a bailiff at the Canadian County Courthouse.
County commissioners have approved a proclamation naming the “Tammy Perando Conference Room B” in the county’s judicial building, 301 N. Choctaw.
The Canadian County Sheriff’s Office plans to add several more counties that will accept county inmates.
An agreement with Logan County was formally approved Jan. 18 to house county inmates at a rate of $41 per inmate per day.
For several years, Canadian County has signed contracts with Dewey, Grant, Ellis and Washita counties to transport and house its inmates when bed space is full inside the county jail.
Other jail housing contracts – with Grady and Noble counties – will be considered by county commissioners.
Both the El Reno High School student section (first photo), and head coach Rodney Haydon (second photo) were puzzled by a call late in the Indians game with Kingfisher inside Jenks Simmons Field House.
After road games at Del City last week, El Reno’s two state-ranked basketball teams were set to return home to face cross-county rival Piedmont Tuesday night before hitting the road again to play Noble on Friday.
Both games are Suburban Conference outings.
The Oklahoma CareerTech Testing Center, a division of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, is expanding a partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety to offer written tests for commercial driver’s licenses.
The two agencies began a partnership in 2021 to offer Class D written driver’s license and motorcycle license tests.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Logan Phillips, R-Mounds, has filed legislation for the upcoming session that would establish the Southeast Asia Economic Trade Office.
The office would be housed in Taiwan to advance Oklahoma’s interests in the country and region.
According to Phillips, this legislation is necessary to strengthen Oklahoma’s already strong relationship with Taiwan and open up the state to new economic investment opportunities.
DIVORCES GRANTED
Cari Ann Edwards vs. Christopher Michael Edwards.
Yuqing Liu vs. Yuanjun Sun.
Heather Gibson vs. Andrew Gibson.
Salvador Rodriguez vs. Crystal Rodriguez.
Hayli K. Perdue vs. David R. Perdue.
John Hartley vs. Tammy Barnwell.
Stevie Dunning vs. Jeremy Dunning.
Holly N. Farmer vs. Raymond H. Farmer.
Mackenzie A. Amend vs. Raymond F. Savage.
William H. Morrison II vs. Crystal L. Morrison.
Stephen D. Burgess vs. Janelle G. Burgess.
The 100th day of classes for El Reno Public Schools ended with a triple-digit milestone for Jennifer Douglas and her high school girls basketball team.
The Indians pushed three players into double digits as El Reno went on the road to defeat Del City 50-36, and earned Douglas her 100th career victory as a head coach.
The 14-point win avenged an earlier loss to the Eagles and moved El Reno back into second place in the Suburban Conferences standings behind Carl Albert.
After dropping a 28-point game to Class 5A’s top-ranked Del City in their first meeting 17 days earlier, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team played the Eagles to their closest league contest to date in the rematch last week.
The Eagles needed double-digit scoring efforts in each of the first three periods to hold off the upset-minded Indians 48-38 to remain undefeated in Suburban Conference action.
El Reno, meanwhile, slipped to 3-2 in the league.
The Indians, ranked eighth in Class 5A among West-side teams for the upcoming playoffs, are now 8-8 overall.
