El Reno High School student Landry Lewis smiles as her aide Theresa Barton reads her a book outside of the high school.

Daily high temperatures have been near record numbers for October and are forecast to be in the 80s for most of the coming week.

With an extended period of no rain and dry vegetation, Canadian County officials have been asked to enact an outdoor burn ban.

District 3 Commissioner Tracey Rider said El Reno Fire Chief Jason Duff wanted commissioners to “discuss the possibility of a burn ban” due to elevated fire dangers.

Declaring a burn ban requires “concurrence from the majority of the fire chiefs in the county,” said District 2 Commissioner Dave Anderson.

State law allows counties to authorize a countywide outdoor burning prohibition if:

Workers from G&S Signs inspect the neon fixtures on the sign at the Centre Theatre in downtown El Reno.

City officials said broken neon pieces were removed and will be replaced in the near future.

Added work headed to the theatre facade include new signboards with new tracking and letters. Those are being replaced since the current signage cannot be serviced.

In an effort to protect the public from scams, the Canadian County Clerk’s Office is offering a free service designed to stop criminals before they can claim ownership of someone else's property.

County Clerk Sherry Murray said her office is offering the free fraud alert notification to the public through her county website.

Murray said this is something that she has been working on for the past few months.