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After being shut out in the first game back from spring break, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team has reeled off five straight victories to break into the double-digit win total for the season.

The Tigers, ranked 20th in Class A, improved to 12-7 on the season with wins over Ninnekah (10-9), Calumet (10-8), Verden (14-8), Fort Cobb-Broxton (11-10) and Watonga (10-3).

Union City hit .441 as a team for the five-game stretch, logging 64 hits, 21 of those going for extra bases. The Tigers had 44 walks and seven strikeouts.

El Reno High School kicked off the 2021 track season recently by competing in the 2021 Bethany Invitational, with eight runners earning places in the 58th annual event.

El Reno’s boys were led by distance runner Jacob Long, who placed 17th in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 12 minutes and 21.51 seconds. He also ran the mile (5:39.38) to place 28th.

Matthew Chaffee took 23rd in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:33.69, followed by Wyatt Mehan (2:35.50) in 25th place.

El Reno High School’s Christian Diaz battles for control of a bouncing ball in front of the Southeast goal during last week’s District 5A-1 match at Memorial Stadium. The Indians lost 4-0 to the Spartans for their fourth straight shutout loss. EHS is now 1-7 on the year and 0-1 in district play.

Tea towels may very well help preserve the first mural painted in downtown El Reno. And possibly help create some more.

The El Reno Chamber of Commerce and the Main Street program are partnering in an effort to preserve the mural created by the late Charlie Beecham.

Beecham painted the History of El Reno mural in the early 1980s. It can be seen above the MidFirst Bank drive-thru on Woodson, between Rock Island and Bickford.

Redlands Community College will again be on the front lines of the state’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, after hosting Canadian County’s first large-scale shot portals earlier this year.

Redlands has partnered with Indian Health Service to offer vaccines to both its student body as well as its college employees. The first pod will be Friday, April 2, with a follow-up pod set for April 30.

Redlands students and employees wishing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 on those dates must register online.

El Reno Live focused on the upcoming Burger Day festival and included applause for the Indian Health Service and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes for helping to vaccinate area residents against COVID-19.

Mayor Matt White and Main Street Director Shana Ford were joined by Morgan Schwarz, owner of Hot Mess Station in the weekly program that airs live on the city’s Facebook site.

WASHINGTON -- The House used Women’s History Month to serve as the backdrop for passing legislation to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act and to remove the 1982 deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

House Democratic women dressed in suffragette white to commemorate the occasion and to usher through what they say are landmark pieces of legislation to advance women's rights.

WASHINGTON — Tribes in Oklahoma are both hopeful and anxious as they wait for the funds and spending rules from the American Rescue Plan that President Joe Biden signed last week.

Native American tribes nationwide will receive more than $31 billion as part of the American Rescue Plan, the largest one-time investment to Native American communities in history.

However, the amount of money set to be given to Oklahoma tribes on an individual basis is largely unknown and likely will be until further tribal consultation has occurred.