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Abby Jeffrey My name is Abby Jeffrey. I am a proud El Reno graduate from the Class of 2020. I am currently a sophomore studying Elementary Education at Oklahoma State University.

Mother Nature ended up throwing the final pitch in the 2021 El Reno High School Invitational as heavy overnight rains forced the cancellation of day two of the event – including bracket play. El Reno's softball team dropped two games in pool play.

Redlands Community College is not starting a football program. “We do not have a football program and have no plans to start a program. The only club sport we operate is ESports.

Ky Jones climbs on top of the Heritage Express Trolley to work on the air conditioning units. Vicki Proctor and Fred Koebrick talk about plans for upcoming trolley tours.

Love's Travel Stops has opened its tire retread plant and distribution center in El Reno. The 220,000-square-foot facility doubles the size of the one it replaces in Grand Prairie, Texas. The new plant is located on Radio Road, just south of I-40.

Redlands Community College and Canadian Valley Technology Center have worked together for years to expand educational offerings and support area businesses, knowing that collaboration was the key to true economic prosperity in their service region.

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series about Ida’s Law, which establishes a liaison to work with law enforcement agencies and families to solve Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons cases throughout Oklahoma. The series explores Ida Beard’s story, legislation history and more.

Following a 17-minute debate, the El Reno School Board voted 4-0 last week to approve the district’s 2020-21 Return to Learn Plan – without a mandatory mask or vaccine mandate. “There is not a lot of change (from last year). One of the changes that is most glaring is there is no mask mandate.

El Reno Public Schools opened up classes for the 2021-22 term on Thursday but the district is already facing quarantines and new cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19. The district’s COVID-19 Dashboard Report, dated Aug. 11, showed 11 students have tested positive for the virus.

Downtown El Reno appears set to make another run at establishing a Business Improvement District and the area could also see a multi-story building erected on an empty lot in the 200 block of South Rock Island.