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The city of El Reno will argue before the Oklahoma Supreme Court that a convicted sex offender should not be allowed to live within 2,000 feet of a park. The hearing is set for 10 a.m. Nov. 30 in the courtroom of the Supreme Court inside the State Capitol.

Kelly Patrick Donaldson brought suit against the city after being told he was not allowed to live within 2,000 feet of Lake El Reno.

The city contends the area is a park. Donaldson contends it is not a park and is zoned agricultural.

With more than 600 head of bison managed by the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, the tribes were a natural choice to work with the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority in promoting a documentary created by one of America’s best-known storytellers.

The tribes herd was recently spotlighted through a film by Ken Burns titled “The American Buffalo.”

C&A leaders were part of those involved in a screening and panel hosted by OETA and the tribes at the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City.

The El Reno Tribune has partnered with El Reno VFW Post 382 and Auxiliary to hold a silent quilt auction to help raise funds for El Reno High School’s annual Gifts for the Yanks program.

Started during World War II, the nationwide Gifts for the Yanks began raising funds to purchase Christmas presents for American military personnel.

El Reno High School joined the effort 77 years ago and today is the only known high school in the United States to take part in the program continually since adopting it.

Fewer than 1 percent of U.S. newsroom employees are Native American.

But one local news coordinator, CATV Director of Operations Randy Burleson, is hoping a new partnership will make a difference in raising those numbers among Native youth in Oklahoma.

Since late September, Cheyenne and Arapaho Television has been broadcasting OU Nightly, the student-led daily news broadcast of Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma.

What was reported as a trespassing call escalated into a stabbing that left a 54-year-old man dead, Canadian County Undersheriff Kevin Ward said.

Ward said deputies received a call Friday about 5:45 p.m. reporting a “trespassing” issue at 2935 N. Old Highway 81. While driving to the scene, deputies were notified the matter had escalated to a stabbing.

City workers spent days putting up the Christmas lights in Legion Park as El Reno jumps into the festive season.

Some of the displays were erected during mild weather, but crews could be seen working in less than perfect conditions on other days.

The lights are shining and motorists have been seen driving by to take in all the Christmas color.

The Canadian County Sheriff’s Office has been awarded a grant from the Oklahoma Attorney General’s “Safe Oklahoma” for the purchase of body cameras.

The grant is for $56,735 and will purchase body cameras for 50 deputies, Sheriff Chris West said in a press release.

This is the second year in a row the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office has received the award.

The body-worn cameras will augment the move to the electronic filing of criminal charges and cases presented to the district attorney’s office.

Thirty-one El Reno High School students from the Forensics and Criminology classes got the privilege of visiting the brand new Crime Scene House at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond.

The students were able to learn about forensics careers such as Crime Scene Investigators (CSIs), behavioral analysts, fingerprint experts, DNA experts, pathologists, anthropologists and many more.

This trip was made possible by the Gear Up grant.

A January trial is set in a lawsuit against Canadian County Sheriff Chris West filed by former employees who allege they were wrongfully terminated.

County commissioners met in executive session Nov. 13 to receive confidential communications from legal counsel about the civil suit.

Two separate lawsuits - filed in April 2022 by former sheriff’s investigator Marty Burns and deputy Chelsea Adkins - were consolidated this June as one case in Canadian County District Court.

A jury trial is set Jan. 8 before Canadian County Special Judge Khristan K. Strubhar.

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