In the regular-season meeting with Piedmont, El Reno High School’s football team struggled to put points on the scoreboard off opportunities provided from its defense.

The two teams met again in the bi-district round of the Class 5A playoffs, and this time, both units for the Indians were on the same page.

Less than a year after pulling up stakes and leaving El Reno, energy giant Halliburton is looking to hire employees at its Duncan operation.

The Duncan Area Economic Development Authority sent out a press release last week saying Halliburton is looking to fill numerous positions within the company.

In December of 2019, Halliburton announced it was leaving the El Reno campus on SH 66 and moving its operation back to Duncan from where it had relocated a few years earlier. No explanation was given for the move and about 800 people were quickly looking for new employment.

Emilie McReynolds has loved looking at the sky since she was a little girl. She especially was drawn to gazing upward when the storm clouds would roll across Oklahoma.

So fascinated by the weather was McReynolds, she enrolled in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma after graduating from El Reno High School in 2017.

McReynolds was honored recently, winning first place in the National Weather Festival Photo Contest for 2020.

She dubbed the photo she took of a storm developing in southwest Kansas “The Mother Ship.”

The Jonny and Mary Ellison family of Calumet recently was honored with the Oklahoma Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee’s District Three Farm and Ranch Family Recognition.

The Ellisons, with their two grown children, Luke and Regan, operate a cow/calf and stocker cattle operation, along with growing wheat and hay in Canadian County.

The family also operates a custom harvest and baling/swathing business for area producers.

Raising their children in rural Oklahoma and around agriculture has always been important to Jonny and Mary.