After spending a week looking into what El Reno Public Schools Superintendent Matt Goucher termed a “personnel matter,” the district has reinstated Tyrone Lewis as head wrestling coach.
The reinstatement was effective April 21 but was announced by Goucher Monday morning in a meeting with Athletic Director Rodney Haydon, Lewis and Associate Superintendent of Personnel Pat Liticker.
Science, brains and creativity were all on display last week when the BlueSTEM AgriLearing Center held its annual Agriscience Symposium.
The eighth affair of its kind, the event was held in the Austin Family Conference Center at Redlands Community College.
Students from El Reno, Yukon, Edmond Santa Fe High School and Epic Charter Middle School took part in the symposium, showing the results of their months-long experiments.
BlueSTEM was created in 2015 as a partnership between the USDA at Fort Reno and El Reno High School.
Kara Watts snaps a picture on her cell phone of senior Ryan Sigler and his date, Brooklynn Mitchum before the two teenagers walked down the red carpet at the 2023 El Reno High School prom.
See more photos of the red carpet walk in Saturday’s edition.
A company has been hired for a software upgrade aimed at providing Canadian County property owners with better online access to detailed information about property values and related data.
The Canadian County Assessor’s Office will convert to a new Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal (CAMA) system.
CAMA is a foundational system the assessor’s office uses to collect data about all property in Canadian County to establish market value.
Work is under way on a structure that will protect a major Canadian County investment from the elements.
A 15,750-square-foot equipment building is under construction at Canadian County District 3’s yard, 1205 N. Calumet Road.
In February, Robinson Brothers Construction was awarded a $203,500 contract to build the double-sided “lean-to” behind the District 3 shop. The El Reno company had the lower price of two vendors submitting bids.
Canadian County District 1 employees Charles Ballard, Quentin Clements and Jimmie Moseley have received their Certificate of Completion for the Roads Scholar Program.
This is offered through the Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP), an outreach program of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology at Oklahoma State University.
Every Canadian County District 1 employee is now a Roads Scholar.
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Hall of Fame wrestling coach Bill Reeves has been in pressure-packed situations mat-side, but never did he imagine experiencing the same situation guiding El Reno High School’s trapshooting team.
That all changed during the recent 2023 Oklahoma Scholastic Shooting Sports Program State Championships.
El Reno, the top seed in the 16-team field, used two shooters from its third and final group to seal the school’s first state title in the sport.
The Canadian County Expo Center will host the 70th Annual National Land and Range Judging Contest the first week of May.
Larry Wright, who has been involved with the event for numerous years, said the May 2-4 event will bring some 1,200 people from 35 states for the competition.
Wright said the new Expo Center, 3001 Jensen Road East, is the reason the event is moving from Oklahoma City to Canadian County.
FFA and 4-H teams from across the nation are expected to fill just about every motel room in the El Reno-Yukon area, Wright said.
Canadian Valley Technology Center’s Board of Education voted unanimously last week to propose a $75 million bond issue, which would provide funding for safety and modernization updates to the technology center’s Chickasha campus as well as the construction of a new public safety training center at the El Reno campus.
“These changes will be transformational for Canadian Valley Technology Center and will help us better serve our K-12 and adult students and our industry partners,” said CV Tech Board of Education President Jimmie Vickrey.
