Rose Witcher Learning Center is so excited to begin the 2021-2022 school year.

We are welcoming back our entire staff, plus two new teachers. Makenzie Hickman and Brittany Voth are joining the team as second-grade teachers.

Nicky Howell is changing roles, providing our school’s social-emotional services.

Cynthia Bennett will be the full-time librarian at RW beginning this year, while Kaitlyn Taber will be working with the Reading Lab.

Welcome to the 2021-22 school year at Hillcrest Learning Center.

We are ready to “shine bright” and share the many experiences that Hillcrest has to offer.

We are excited and ready to start another year of learning.

The staff has been super busy getting our school ready to meet our shining Head Start, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students.

Hillcrest Learning Center welcomes Aubrey Findley, Deangelo Jenkins and Jennifer Harding teaching Head Start, Christi Frank and Jessica Meyers teaching kindergarten, and Sara Heasley as our SEL director.

State health officials believe the Delta variant of COVID will move quickly through Oklahoma.

That’s what El Reno Schools Superintendent Craig McVay said at Thursday’s El Reno Now broadcast. He was joined by Mayor Matt White.

McVay said officials from the state Health Department believe the Delta variant will spread quickly and with less harmful effects as the original COVID virus. The thought is by mid-September it may have run its course.

Help with utility bill payments and rent assistance may be available to qualifying residents if they fell behind because of COVID-related issues.

El Reno Mayor Matt White said the COVID-19 Assistance Program is being coordinated through the Community Action Agency. He made the comments at last week’s El Reno Now program.