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A $3.6 million remodeling project for the Canadian County Health Department has gotten a little costlier. A 33,000-square-foot building at 6100 East Highway 66 just west of Evans Road is being renovated for a new county health clinic and offices. The work is due to be finished in April 2024.

MARRIAGE LICENSES Shon Christopher Lane and Susan Janine King. Zachary Ryan Eisenhour and Samantha Marea Manuel. Agustus Ethan Earls and Summer Cheyanne Hancock. Zecharia Journey Rodriguez and Briona Dawn McCumber. Jesus Isaah Martinez and Alicia Uscanga Vergara.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.