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El Reno’s Ross Seed Co. is holding its annual Plant Days sale this weekend. The annual event offers thousands of blooming plants and hanging baskets along with all planting accessories. The multi-day event kicked off Thursday and runs through Saturday.

Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) will hold a town hall meeting on Wednesday at Redlands Community College. The gathering is open to the public and will run from 10 to 11 a.m. in Room MM-125.

El Reno’s Animal Shelter is hoping prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Eric Palmer, 33, defeated Ronnie Funck, 74, in the El Reno School Board Office No.3 race, winning every precinct. Palmer and Funck faced off in the Tuesday runoff. The two were the top vote-getters in the earlier February election that also featured Roberta Hamilton.

As print journalism continues to decline due to the rise of the Internet, many small-town communities are struggling to find the means to continue their local paper. Students in Gaylord College at the University of Oklahoma are surveying El Reno residents about their local newspaper.

A process has been proposed designed to streamline the way Canadian County government officials make certain purchases. Commissioners are moving ahead with plans to implement a County Purchase Card Program.

Eastbound and westbound Interstate 40 will have short-term ramp closures and will be intermittently narrowed at interchanges between the Texas state line and Yukon for the installation of wrong-way warning systems, pavement markers, signage and upgraded striping at interchanges along the western...

OKLAHOMA CITY  - Oklahoma law does not give the State Board of Education (SBE) the ability to make administrative rules without proper direction from the state Legislature, Attorney General Gentner Drummond recently ruled in a formal opinion. 

LAWSUITS Thasha Bravo vs. Blake Raney for an amount in excess of $75,000 for injuries and damages alleged to have occurred during an automobile accident. Discover Bank vs. Melissa Jayne Shelton for $12,680.46 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

The president of the Oklahoma Route 66 Association has a message for El Reno and the rest of the state as the 100th anniversary of the Mother Road approaches.