Population gains in Canadian County will mean the creation of a new Senate seat and El Reno could be on the verge of gaining more of a voice in House races.

Sen. Lonnie Paxton said Senate District 18, currently in Wagoner County in eastern Oklahoma, will be moved to the Yukon and Bethany area.

The new seat will give Canadian County an extra voice at the Senate table, Paxton said.

Paxton, R-Tuttle, served as chairman of the Senate Redistricting Committee. After a vote of 46-1 to adopt the redistricting recommendations, Paxton said he is pleased.

Canadian County commissioners purchased property near the new Expo Center to build a sewage lagoon.

The move comes a month before the new $15 million fairgrounds is set to open and after the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) informed the county hauling sewage from the site would not be permitted.

The commissioners, acting as the Public Facilities Authority, voted 3-0 Thursday afternoon to exercise their option to purchase 6.25 acres from the Jensen family of El Reno.

Maggie Miller’s school year was unlike most. As a mother of two young children, her balancing act is one worthy of the Big Top.

Miller, 36, of Mustang, began each day with getting her pre-kindergarten and first-grade sons ready for distance learning.

Eventually, she had distance learning of her own as an enrollee in Canadian Valley Technology Center’s Accounting and Business Management program.

Distance learning was an option for CV Tech students this year.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Legislation that requires sexual assault survivors receive information on trauma care sooner has been signed into law. 

The Sexual Assault Victims Right to Information Act (House Bill 2546), authored by Rep. Cyndi Munson, D-OKC, and Sen. Kay Floyd, D-OKC, expands protections to victims of sexual assault regardless of participation in a criminal investigation of their assault. The act allows for an advocate to be made available during a sexual assault examination.