Editor’s Note: The following letter was presented to the El Reno City Council Tuesday. Holly Mace, Ph.D., representing the Carnegie Library Board, read the letter at the meeting. The city has three full-time and five part-time employees working at the library and will add a summer seasonal position. 

To: El Reno City Council
From: El Reno Carnegie Library Board
Date: May 11, 2026
Subject: Concern Regarding the Children’s Librarian Position

Dear Mayor and Members of the City Council,

SULPHUR — Marcella Sankey of El Reno will graduate May 20 from the Oklahoma School for the Deaf during a commencement ceremony at 1 p.m. in the Ken Brown Gymnasium. OSD is located at 1100 East Oklahoma Avenue in Sulphur.  

Sankey is the daughter of Nina and Fritz Woods. She has been at OSD for 14 years, participating in basketball, volleyball, cheerleading and Family, Career and Community Leaders of America.

After graduation, she plans to go to Cowley College or get a job.

El Reno High School April Students of the Month are Ayden Overholser, Aubrey Engel, Logan Vandiver, Shakayla Johnson,
Ethen Turner, Rebakkah Fraze, Sergio Rosas and Josephine Sweezy.

Maple April Students of the Month are Jax Thomason, first grade, Shepard Wells, prekindergarten, Piper Brothers, kindergarten; Tyler Williams, third grade, Madalynne Whitman, fourth grade, Serenity White, fifth grade, Penelope Badillo, second grade; Hudson Cooper, sixth grade, Brennan Ayers, eighth grade, and John Prince, seventh grade.