There were a lot of what ifs emerging from El Reno High School’s boys basketball team's 44-39 loss to the Oklahoma City Storm to close out the regular season.

What if El Reno had not given up a 13-0 run to start the game? What if the Storm, a home-school program, had not played a game of backyard keep-away for over four minutes of the second half?

Despite those two hurdles, El Reno clawed back into the contest and had a chance to not only take the lead late in the fourth quarter but also pull out a victory.

Canadian County has a road to fix, a historic one at that.

The portion of historic Route 66 that runs along the south side of Fort Reno, 12 miles to the Cherokee Trading Post, is the responsibility of the county.

In what several grapplers termed a tough regional, El Reno High School’s wrestling team advanced five out of the Class 5A West Regional for this weekend’s Oklahoma State High School Wrestling Championships.

“Anytime you get to qualify for state, it’s a big honor. Making state around here is pretty hard,” said El Reno senior Kord LaFoe, one of EHS’ two regional champs.

Eight of the top 15 teams in the latest tournament rankings for Class 5A were sent to the West Regional, hosted by El Reno.

The single largest infrastructure project in El Reno history came to a sudden halt on Dec. 7, 1941.

That was the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

It was also the day construction ended, or was at least interrupted, on what would become known as the Rock Island overpass.

Crews have begun building an alternate route around the more than 70-year-old structure that is scheduled to be torn down and replaced with a modern boulevard.