The Rock Island overpass is officially open.
A ribbon cutting ceremony Friday afternoon celebrated the construction of the $10 million project, tabbed by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation as the U.S. 81 Rock Island Bridge.
The day featured the El Reno High School Marching Band along with more than a dozen classic automobiles driven over the bridge by the El Reno Cruisers Car Club.
The sounds of charging horses, rattling sabers and pistols firing returned to the parade grounds at Historic Fort Reno Wednesday as the 2021 U.S. Cavalry Association's Bivouac and National Competition returned.
The four-day event runs through Saturday, with daily events starting at 9 a.m.
“It’s good to be back,” said U.S. Cavalry Association President Bill Tempero.
The event was canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the first time the competition was not held since the association moved its national headquarters to Fort Reno.
The husband of a Canadian County Jail inmate who died in custody is suing the county commissioners, sheriff, jail administrator and the jail’s medical provider.
Lesley Sara Hendrix, 27, died Oct. 12, 2020, at a hospital after suffering from a flesh-eating disorder called necrotizing fasciitis. She had been an inmate since January 2016 at the Canadian County Jail.
Hendrix was charged in Canadian County District Court in the death of a 23-month-old toddler she had been baby-sitting in November 2015.
Dan Galloway said he and his wife visited downtown Stillwater in 1992. That was before he became city manager for the Payne County municipality.
“There were maybe three stores open,” Galloway said.
He was talking last week to about a dozen people who had gathered in the Centre Theatre in downtown El Reno. They were there to hear and discuss the possibilities of creating a Business Improvement District for the downtown.
An El Reno man was taken into custody after police reportedly found him hiding in bushes in the 600 block of North Bickford, allegedly with a large machete and a bag of meth.
Reports said Quentel Eugene Perkins, 36, was arrested just before 1 a.m. on Sept. 14. Police had been called to the area on North Bickford after receiving reports that a man carrying a light was seen walking in the area.
In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced students at Redlands Community College to switch to online learning, Zoom and other group communications technology became a part of daily life.
For students, learning the ins and outs of Zoom was hard enough, but Professor of Communications Elise McCauley Row soon discovered even professional adults were making critical mistakes and goofy errors when engaging with others on such platforms.
The full moon last week brought about unique lighting around El Reno.
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An Amber Alert issued Wednesday morning worked the way the system was intended after a suspect in a child abduction case was arrested at a Canadian County convenience store.
Major Adam Flowers with the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office said a citizen reported seeing a vehicle that matched the description of the one in the Amber Alert. The vehicle was seen outside a store at Czech Hall and 15th Street, Flowers said. The call came in about 8:30 a.m.
In a different genre from previous films shot in El Reno, principal photography began last week on a family action-adventure movie titled “Quest for Tom Sawyer's Gold.”
“It’s a story set in modern times and it’s basically an ex-adventurer who is a mom to a teenage boy. The boy comes across some clues in the family’s attic that relates to their past and the connection to Tom Sawyer,” said Zeus Zamani, the film's producer.
