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LAWSUITS Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC vs. Samuel Brence and Jana Brence for $117,697.73 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 6, Block 69, Mustang Heights Phase II Addition Section 10.

Editor’s Note: Education, crime, fundraising and festivals made the news in El Reno as the year rolled into spring and early summer. Here’s a glimpse of some of those happenings as we say farewell to 2023.

Friends of the El Reno Animal Shelter, a new organization, hosted an opportunity for families to bring their pets to take Christmas pictures with Santa and the Grinch. Almost 50 furry friends took advantage of the opportunity, which was a fundraiser for the Friends of the Shelter group.

If at first you don’t succeed … After its first proposal was denied, Youth and Family Services was successful last week in its effort to acquire land owned by Canadian County. Commissioners accepted Youth and Family Services $100,000 bid for vacant land near the county’s juvenile center.

Lena Corona was sitting on the porch of her Seminole home, blood dripping from her hand, when police arrived at 2:45 a.m. Her dad stood behind her, pressing a T-shirt over the wound on his chest where Corona had plunged a shard of glass.

LAWSUITS LVNV Funding LLC vs. Carol Hill for $1,126.99 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees. LVNV Funding LLC vs. Maria Guest for $1,069.26 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Editor’s Note: Like every new year, 2023 provided fresh opportunities, challenges and celebrations for many. Others may not view the happenings of the year, now in the rearview mirror, as opportunities, but rather distractions, obstacles and sadly, heartache.

A Canadian County judge has ordered a defendant to be held without bail in an El Reno murder case. Norman’s Delsin Joshua Tsotigh, 21, is housed in the Canadian County Jail after being charged Nov. 9 in Canadian County District Court with first-degree murder – deliberate intent.

Canadian County voters will head to the polls in March to decide whether to update the county’s liquor laws. Canadian County is the only county in Oklahoma that prohibits sales of alcohol by the drink from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, although 15 counties have other Sunday restrictions.

Ella McReynolds of El Reno is among 13 Oklahoma State University undergraduate students selected as Niblack Research Scholars for the 2023-24 school year, earning an $8,000 scholarship and the opportunity to conduct research with faculty across campus.