Director Tom Shell watches a monitor while giving direction to actors during the filming of his movie Sorority Sister Killer. Scenes were shot inside and around the home owned by Randy Hurst in the 600 block of Barker Avenue. It’s the fourth time since the COVID-19 lockdown was lifted in May for Hollywood to use locations around El Reno for filming.
A Yukon man is in the Canadian County Jail in connection with the death of a 10-month-old child.
Joshua Paul Jennings is being held on a first-degree murder complaint after being arrested last week.
According to Oklahoma City police, officers were called to Mercy Minor Emergency Clinic, 520 S. Mustang Road, at 2:48 p.m. Sept. 25, after Paisley Cearley was brought to the clinic.
Authorities said the child had critical injuries and was taken to an area hospital.
The child died the next morning, officials said.
The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes received a $17,000 First Nations Development Institute Grant that will help provide a wireless broadband network Internet access to tribal members.
The grant assists the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes to design and create a wireless broadband network serving western Oklahoma and will allow the tribes to provide 2.5 GHz wireless Internet access to tribal members.
MUNICIPAL COURT
Brandon Rhea Looney, Oklahoma City, driving under revocation, $395.
Tiffany Michelle Schumacher, Yukon, speeding, $175.
Tristyn A. Flowers, El Reno, dog at large, $145.
Sylvia Sweezy, Mustang, speeding, $165.
Lewis Hochie Harrison, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $295.
Joseph Dale Heltcel, Newcastle, failure to appear warrant, $295.
Isiah Luke Botone, Oklahoma City, improper equipment, expired tag, no insurance verification and driving without license issued, $817.
Downtown El Reno could see sidewalk dining in the future after a joint meeting of the city council and the Municipal Planning Commission.
The groups gathered outside the Centre Theatre last week to discuss the idea and from the sounds of it, it’s an idea that is moving forward.
Vicki Proctor, chair of the planning commission, along with realtor Kyra Escott and Shana Ford of Main Street have been hanging lights on canopies of downtown businesses as a way to give the area a boost.
Voters who plan to cast their votes in the Nov. 3 General Election by absentee ballot should begin receiving them in the mail. Wanda Armold, Canadian County Election Board secretary, said more than 9,500 people had requested absentee mail-in ballots.
Armold said there were 84,578 voters in Canadian County as of Sept. 1, and those numbers have continued to climb.
In the 2016 presidential election, 5,682 people voted by absentee ballot.
While there were no floats due to COVID-19 concerns, El Reno High School held a socially-distanced football homecoming parade last week.
Canadian County Sheriff Chris West said his volunteer posse is ready for training.
West said last summer he intended to create a Citizen Posse to help protect the citizens of Canadian County. West said within 24 hours his office received more than 500 online applications, many of whom lived outside of Canadian County.
Frontier Chevrolet presented El Reno Public Schools with a gift of $10,000. The presentation was made in the showroom of the dealership and is part of the Chevy Drives Education Program. Pictured from left, Matt Goucher and Brooke Robertson with ERPS; Debbie Denwalt, Cameron Scott, Kalisha Brown, Stacey Gaylord and Shane Tuck, all of Frontier; and El Reno Superintendent Craig McVay.
A technology firm based in Las Vegas, Nev., has partnered with Lucky Star Casino to donate equipment to help keep El Reno children safe from COVID-19
eConnect has partnered with Lucky Star Casino to provide innovative COVID-19 thermal camera solution eClear™ to public schools in the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes tribal jurisdiction.
The devices are intended to ensure student and faculty safety as they gather in school buildings.
