El Reno High School runner Ethan Brooks saved his best individual effort of the season for the most important day of his freshman season to date – the Class 5A West Region 2 Championships.

Brooks earned three state passes to this weekend’s Class 5A Oklahoma State High School Track and Field Championships with one gold and two silver regional finishes in battles with some old foes – Guymon’s Adam Sium and Tesfaye Lire.

SHAWNEE – Between spring and fall seasons, the past four Class B Oklahoma State High School Baseball Championships have been settled between Calumet and Fort Cobb/Broxton.

Unfortunately for the Chieftains, their archrival got the upper hand again.

The Mustangs held Calumet to a pair of base hits en route to a 9-2 victory as Fort Cobb/Broxton won its third straight spring title, fifth overall and ninth counting the fall season.

Tim Gatz told the crowd that gathered for the ceremonial opening of The Filling Station that Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell used the revitalized El Reno property as the centerpiece for his presentation during a major Route 66 gathering in New Mexico. 

The El Reno native and director of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Gatz joined city, county and other state officials in the May 3 opening of The Filling Station.

The $1.2 million restoration and revitalization project was funded through a grant from the Oklahoma Route 66 Commission. 

Backed by a 180-degree weather change from a year earlier, the 37th Annual Burger Day Festival has been deemed a success by the El Reno Main Street Program, which organizes the event with support from the City of El Reno.

“I feel like we had a great turnout. Our vendors were happy, our merchants were happy and all our volunteers went home happy so I will call that a success,” said Main Street Director Heather Brothers.