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Redlands Community College will again be on the front lines of the state’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, after hosting Canadian County’s first large-scale shot portals earlier this year.

El Reno Live focused on the upcoming Burger Day festival and included applause for the Indian Health Service and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes for helping to vaccinate area residents against COVID-19.

WASHINGTON -- The House used Women’s History Month to serve as the backdrop for passing legislation to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act and to remove the 1982 deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

WASHINGTON — Tribes in Oklahoma are both hopeful and anxious as they wait for the funds and spending rules from the American Rescue Plan that President Joe Biden signed last week.

LAWSUITS Capital One Bank N.A. vs. Jesse A. Eskew for $3,562.79 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees. Crown Asset Management LLC vs. Rhonda L. Weisbrod for $1,391.27 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Beginning Tuesday, March 30 and running through Friday, April 2, Lucky Star Casino will be hosting a COVID-19 vaccination clinic for anyone age 18 or older. All recipients who get the shot will receive $25 in free play to take their shot at big money that day.

Editor’s Note: Nancy Marie Spears lives in El Reno and is a student in the Gaylord School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Oklahoma. She is a member of the Cherokee Nation.

Two Warr Acres residents were arrested in El Reno, one on complaints of trafficking of drugs, including heroin and methamphetamine, as well as possessing a loaded firearm during the commission of a felony. Police reported pulling over a vehicle near Choctaw and Wade shortly after 11 p.m. March 20.

Have you ever wondered why a service dog is needed or how one can be beneficial to a veteran? Red Avery, with Versa K-9 for Vets, offers important insight to this very question. Versa K-9 for Vets is comprised of six instructors and guest speakers.

A request to rezone about a half acre on South Rock Island from Commercial Office (CO) and Combined Residential (R-2) to Commercial Convenience (CC) won the recommendation of the Municipal Planning Commission in a 4-1 vote. The lone no vote was actually an abstention which counts as a no vote.