El Reno High School post player Paige Primeaux has her arm pulled back from a rebound attempt by a Piedmont player during last week’s battle among top 10 teams in Class 5A. The Wildcats defeated EHS 50-46, but both teams remain in the top 10 of the new state poll. El Reno (1-1) is ranked ninth and Piedmont is eighth.

El Reno senior Jay Gililland shoots a jumper during the Indians 56-45 win over Piedmont. Now 2-0 on the season, El Reno jumped into the top 10 of the Class 5A poll at No. 9.

Several fall and winter hunting seasons are either open now or will open soon. Here are some details about Oklahoma’s annual ring-necked pheasant season and holiday deer antlerless gun season.

Ring-Necked Pheasant Season

Oklahoma’s 2020-21 ring-necked pheasant hunting season is under way, and hunters planning to pursue this exotic species will likely have more luck traveling farther into the northern reaches of Oklahoma this year.

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. Her former neighbor and El Reno resident, Melissa Knight, is an RN at Integris Baptist Hospital in Oklahoma City. She works in the ICU with the primary task of caring for COVID patients.

Bramlett said she talked with her two classes, 42 students in all, about what the health-care workers were going through, working in “these crazy conditions.”