Carol Nichols knows about the 23rd Psalm. She has lived it. She has sobbed and prayed her way wandering in the “valley of the shadow of death” and now she has written about it.
She had to write about it. What else could she do? She had lost the love of her life, her husband. And then, as if death hadn’t cut her soul deep enough, her only son was told he had months to live.
The darkness of death had swallowed Carol Nichols.
Reggie Jammer from Fort Cavazos in Kileen, Texas, reaches back to shoot a balloon off a post during the mounted pistol competition at the 2023 U.S. Cavalry Competition held last week at Fort Reno.
Riders navigate a series of jumps on horseback and must fire and bust a balloon at each station.
The rounds fired do not carry any live ammunition.
Mike Gallaway puts his aerobatic plane into a vertical climb during El Reno’s Fly-In and Community Day Saturday at the El Reno Municipal Airpark.
See Saturday’s edition for coverage from the event.
Some 300 certified master gardeners from across Oklahoma will visit Canadian County to hear from experienced horticulture professionals and tour local gardens.
Canadian County Master Gardeners will host the Master Gardeners State Conference on Friday, Oct. 6 at Canadian Valley Technology Center, 6505 E. Highway 66.
The theme is “Honoring Our Past, Growing Our Future.” The program will be inside CV Tech’s seminar center and three classrooms, with on-site vendor and educational booths.
The Oklahoma District Attorneys Association has honored Sen. Lonnie Paxton with its highest award, the Soaring Eagle.
Paxton was the only recipient of the Soaring Eagle, an award bestowed to the association’s greatest champions. Paxton earned the award for his efforts to increase penalties for dangerous drive-by shootings into dwellings as well as his efforts to help law enforcement deal with illegal marijuana operations that are plaguing so much of rural Oklahoma.
OKLAHOMA CITY — A new poll shows Oklahomans overwhelmingly support cutting the state income tax and gradually eliminating the tax entirely.
According to the survey, conducted by WPA Intelligence (WPAi) on behalf of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) and Americans for Prosperity (AFP), 65 percent of Oklahoma voters support cutting the state income tax, while only 22 percent oppose income-tax cuts. The survey also found that 67 percent of voters support elimination of Oklahoma’s income tax.
LAWSUITS
Freedom Mortgage Corporation vs. Beverly Reininger and Robert Reininger for $149,511.11 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 2, Block 1, Piedmont Meadows Phase I Addition.
First United Bank and Trust Company vs. Terry Sowards for $86,185.90 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 41, Block 2, East Pointe Addition Section 2, Mustang.
Each step Johnny Hensley took across the parade grounds at Fort Reno was like a step back in time.
While his movement was slow and deliberate, due partly to his battle with cancer after being exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam, the Piedmont resident’s eyes were laser-focused on the 330-foot memorial wall set up on the north side of the grounds.
“Do you know if they have the sheet that shows which panels names are on,” asked Hensley, a Navy veteran.
After a few minutes of searching, he found his destination - Panel 16, Lines 90 and 103.
The Oklahoma Transportation Commission next week is expected to consider hiring a contractor to construct a permanent upgrade to the State Highway 66/Banner Road intersection.
Six companies submitted bid proposals that were opened Sept. 14 at Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) headquarters.
Apparent low bidder was Haskell Lemon Group, which submitted a $696,832.15 price – more than 23 percent below the engineer’s $907,830 estimate.
“This project will update the current interchange of SH-66 and Banner Road,” ODOT spokesman Bryce Boyer said.
Hundreds gathered at Fort Reno for the opening ceremony of the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall.
The wall was greeted with sunshine and a U.S. flag that waved in the breeze far above the parade grounds where the wall was set up.
Craig McVay, former El Reno schools superintendent and emcee for the ceremony, said the flag, hoisted close to 100 feet into the air by a ladder truck from the El Reno Fire Department, was no doubt the most expensive flagpole in western Oklahoma.
