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First Investors Servicing Corporation vs. Maryah Blanton for $9,716.02 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Arvest Bank vs. Ross Haxton for $4,142.85 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

American Express National Bank vs. Kalin Dyer and Speech Heart Service for $3,657.89 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Bank of America N.A. vs. Christina Birdsley for $4,884.18 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Chelsea Reed enjoys singing about as much as she loves to teach, so it was only natural she merge the two worlds inside her classroom at Rose Witcher Learning Center.

“I love to sing to my kids and we do a lot of movement in the classroom every day,” said Reed.

“They don’t all learn the same. Some are visual learners, some learn by hearing and others by movement. First-graders can’t sit still for very long and it’s very challenging to keep them entertained, so we do a lot of movement and extra things because not only are they learning, but they are exercising.”

The El Reno Chamber of Commerce will partner with the El Reno Tribune to host a candidate forum, this time for the upcoming El Reno Public School Board election.

The Chamber and Tribune hosted a candidate forum for the November city council and mayoral race and like the earlier one, the school board forum will be held at Redlands Community College.

The forum is set for 6:30 p.m. Feb. 7. It will run for one hour.

Proponents of a $4 million bond issue at Riverside School call the election “historic.”

Since it appears the only other time the dependent pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade school on Foreman Road held a bond election was in 1968, that may be a fitting description.

Lisa Derryberry, Riverside superintendent, said the bond issue supported at the beginning of the Nixon administration in ‘68 was for $35,000.

Times have changed.

Oklahoma’s business taxes are not a major factor in business expansion or relocation decisions, but the state’s personal income tax remains a challenge cited by many business officials, according to a review conducted by the Oklahoma Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT).

Oklahoma State Treasurer Todd Russ sent a letter and questionnaire to a list of national financial institutions, including fund managers and banks, to determine which companies “boycott energy companies” in Oklahoma.

Russ said this move is the first step in compiling the list of companies Oklahoma government entities are prohibited from doing business with because of their environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies.

One question will appear on the March 7, 2023, Special Election Ballot.

This initiative petition was placed on the ballot by gathering signatures from citizens.

The question is reprinted here as it will appear on the ballot followed by a brief summary 

State Question 820: 
Legalizing recreational use of marijuana for persons 21 or older. 

INITIATIVE PETITION 434
STATE QUESTION 820

LAWSUITS

Synchrony Bank vs. Donna Clark for $2,883.39 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC vs. Terri Hays for $2,497.48 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC vs. Brian Dennis for $3,424.15 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC vs. Shawna Stevens and Lane W. Stevens for $912.02 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

The first El Reno Now breakfast of 2023 featured some new hosts, but continued with the familiar theme of promoting all that is good about El Reno.

Mayor Steve Jensen, along with School Superintendent Matt Goucher and City Manager Matt Sandidge served as hosts for the event.

El Reno Now was created in 2018 as a monthly event by former Mayor Matt White and now retired Superintendent Craig McVay.

The format has been adjusted to a quarterly get-together and several businesses have been added as breakfast sponsors.

City leaders took the next step in securing funding for major improvements at the El Reno Regional Airport when a resolution supporting several projects received unanimous support from the city council.

The vote came during a special meeting of the council and the Airpark Authority. The bodies are comprised of the same council members.

Councilman Pete Stapperfend made the motion to support the resolution and newly appointed councilwoman Amy Neathery provided the second.