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Adam Fox was 7 years old when his father paid for him to fly an airplane. The family was on vacation in south Florida. The elder Fox, an Alabama boiler-maker who traveled the world for business, often taking his family along, sat the youngster on his lap and let him think he was flying.

The death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer has reopened the eyes of America to the racial injustices which still exist in the United States. It also opened the eyes of El Reno High School junior Ashlyn Evans-Thompson.

El Reno Regional Airport and Industrial Park is among the most used airports in the state of Oklahoma. Not bad considering there are 108 registered in the Oklahoma Airport System Plan.

Tradition is looking a bit different these days, but what’s important is that it's being kept. Wesley United Methodist Church is going ahead with its usual summer missions. The Bun Run, an annual 5K event, normally coincides with Burger Day.

Alison Toney took all the precautions as a nurse working on the frontlines in the fight against the coronavirus. Still, she got sick.

Constitutionally, this year’s session of the Oklahoma Legislature had to adjourn by 5 p.m. on Friday, May 29. But the session has been effectively adjourned for weeks, other than a single day when lawmakers returned to override gubernatorial vetoes.

LAWSUITS Debra K. Bradfield vs. McKenzi R. Harvey for an amount in excess of $75,000 for injuries and damages alleged to have occurred during an automobile accident.

On Saturday, El Reno High School pulled off what might be one of the most remembered graduations in the school’s history. The graduating class of 2020 lost about three months of its school year to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bill Edwards has never forgotten El Reno. A 1954 graduate of El Reno High School, Edwards has lived for years in the small village of Whitesville, N.Y. He stays in touch with friends in El Reno and has on occasion penned a letter to the editor which has been published in the Tribune.

This week, we’re all going to get some much needed R and R. In spirit, A Small Town Weekend is close to Burger Day. People from all over come to El Reno and enjoy the local hospitality, eating good food and sharing good stories. They are both events that the whole community can get behind.