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Residents in neighborhoods close to where an energy company plans to drill for oil and gas are expected to voice their concerns in a meeting set for Thursday evening, Sept. 1.

The City Board of Adjustment is expected to take up the matter in the meeting scheduled for 5 p.m. The meeting will be at the Municipal Building, 101 N. Choctaw.

Residents in the Williamstown and Wessex areas are hoping the plan to drill oil and gas wells near their homes can be stopped.

The Savannah Station board, leadership and volunteers must have been pinching themselves in the days following the Galloping for Hope fundraiser.

The amount of support was that overwhelming.

A sold out Palace Event Center coupled with a record-setting auction provided proof how far the therapeutic riding center has come in recent years.

“I am flabbergasted, truly,” Executive Director Andi Holland said.

“I started as director in 2017 and that very first year we were just amazed we sold four tables.

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Department of Education (CADOE) has been awarded a $1.3 million State Tribal Education Partnership (STEP) grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

The grant will span a three-year period and will help the C&A establish a charter school.

The proposed STEP project, “Enhancing Educational Choice for Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma,” will seek to build and administer educational programs as they plan to develop a “culturally responsive” charter school model.

El Reno’s Sacred Heart Catholic School started the school year with 113 students enrolled.
 

Canadian County will remain under a burn ban, as commissioners continue to monitor conditions that remain dry and dangerous – despite some intermittent showers in recent days.

“They (county fire chiefs) recommend allowing it to continue one more week – it hasn’t greened up, and we’re still in extreme drought conditions,” Emergency Manager Josh Davis said. He said while total recent rainfalls varied across the county, many areas saw about .25 of an inch of rain.

“That’s what we did in Mustang,” Commissioner David Anderson said.

The field is set for the November general election in Oklahoma as voters decided Tuesday who moves forward from six statewide runoff races, a congressional district race and several other ballot candidates and issues.

For the unexpired term of retiring U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, Republican voters chose to send Markwayne Mullin to the general election over T.W. Shannon.

Mullin will face Democrat Kendra Horn, Libertarian Robert Murphy and Independent Ray Woods.

LAWSUITS

Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Dana L. Mathews for $831.38 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Whitney Huddleston for $2,928.11 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

U.S. Bank N.A. vs. Andrew Smith for $3,383.51 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Wakefield & Associates LLC vs. Samantha Moss for $843.17 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

LAWSUITS

Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Amy Seager for $8,176.51 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Capital One Bank N.A. vs. Peggy L. Oliver for $2,889.67 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Capital One Bank N.A. vs. Cassie L. Hayton for $2,526.12 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Barbara Bobbitt for $1,541.44 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Canadian County law officers seized some 60,000 Fentanyl pills after making a traffic stop.

Just before 9 p.m. Aug. 15, a deputy with the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office stopped an eastbound 2019 Toyota Camry on Interstate 40 near Evans Road.

The stop was made after the deputy said the vehicle made an improper lane change while traveling almost 20 miles per hour below the posted speed limit. Concerned the driver might be intoxicated, the deputy made the traffic stop.