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Changes are coming for telephone customers in the 405 area code. Starting Saturday, Oct. 24, local calls within the 405 area code can be made by either dialing the seven-digit local number or by dialing the area code plus the local number.

LAWSUITS Ford Motor Credit Company LLC vs. Andrew Scheidemantel for $13,021.39 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees. Tinker Federal Credit Union vs. Timothy C. Scott and Alicia Y. Scott for $24,480.33 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Authorities are asking anyone with information concerning where a woman was prior to a deadly accident on I-40 to come forward. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol is seeking information about where Ashley Louise Ricks was prior to the accident that claimed four lives.

More thought needs to go into what to do with a narrow bridge before making it one-way where vehicles would cross one at a time. El Reno City Council decided to table the plan put forth by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation to make the bridge on Foreman and Keith into a one-way passage.

Brian Rukes is selling masks in honor of the El Reno students who lost their lives in World War II. An El Reno High School English teacher, Rukes led the effort to create the monument to the El Reno 44.

A board of trustees has been formed for Cardinal Point, Canadian County’s new Family Justice Center. The appointments were confirmed by the county commissioners.

Redlands Community College and Oklahoma State University have signed transfer agreements designed to help students earning an associate degree in business administration to easily transfer to OSU for the completion of a bachelor’s degree.

A collection of artists from El Reno, Oklahoma City, Tulsa and around Oklahoma as well as Dallas painted several walls in an alleyway in downtown El Reno last week. The Phase 1 collection is known as the El Reno Walls. (Tribune photographer/Glen Miller)

MARRIAGE LICENSES Kevin Wayne Rowe, 39; Laura Kay Marcum, 52. Blake Allen Sockwell, 38; Yetheda Cadelaria Takacs, 28. Adam Kenneth Hall, 37; Carmen Daniela Sepeda Rodriguez, 33. Matthew Allan Miller, 27; Shelbi Lynn Reed, 24. Eric Alajandro Lopez, 24; Alma Adriana Velasco, 26.

What’s being called Phase 1 of a downtown mural project wrapped up last week, as artists from near and far converged on downtown El Reno to turn drab alley walls into works of colorful art.