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New housing developments going up in El Reno will have some noticeable differences in that sidewalks are visible, while utility lines are nowhere to be found. That’s because they are buried. Mayor Matt White addressed the issues during last week’s El Reno Live program.

The city of Yukon has hired El Reno attorney Roger Rinehart to serve as that city’s municipal attorney. Rinehart has held the same position in El Reno and said he will continue to do so.

Calling it an “early Christmas present,” El Reno city officials were pleased with the news the city, along with other areas of Canadian County, have been declared a disaster following the late October ice storm.

A trust overseeing Canadian County’s new domestic violence center has signed a lease with county commissioners to occupy its new home. Commissioners, at their Dec. 21 meeting, approved a real estate and leasing services agreement starting Jan. 1 with Cardinal Point Public Trust.

El Reno fireman Tanner Hood, left, pulls slack on a water hose as fellow fireman Ty Gulickson moves into position to spray water on a shed fire last week on North Hoff. The inside of the shed was destroyed.

Following the 2016 presidential election, reports of Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. election process prompted numerous congressional investigations and bipartisan efforts to better protect election security, U.S. Sen. James Lankford noted.

LAWSUITS DNF Associates LLC vs. Gwendolyn Knowles for $3,946.71 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees. Arvest Bank vs. Marsha Bruce for $3,945.26 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Some El Reno schoolchildren helped brighten the day for some COVID front-line health-care workers by sending them colorful cards and drawings. Raven Bramlett teaches fifth-grade math and science at Roblyer Learning Center.

Three days into dispensing the first round of the COVID-19 vaccine, the eight counties which make up District 2 had used close to half of the initial allotment from the state of Oklahoma.

As one drives onto the lands of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes in Concho, they are met with a picturesque view of the tribes bison herd grazing freely in the pastures blanketed in thick native grasses.