RCC linksters second on tricky Bailey Ranch track

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Battling a tough Bailey Ranch layout in Owasso, Redlands Community College women’s golf team finished as runner-up in the 2026 Hillcats Classic.

Rogers State, the host, won the 36-hole event with a 612 tally, followed by Redlands with a 649 after rounds of 322 and 327.

Indian Hills Community College, out of Iowa, was third, eight shots back of the Cougars at 657.

Ivanna Gerez led Redlands with a 157 effort (79/78), which placed her sixth in the individual medalist chase. Sophia Blake was a shot back (80/78) with a 158 to take seventh.

Otis Baker

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Services for Otis Marshall Baker will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 17 at Hinton Turner Funeral Home Chapel with Reverends Leo Bradley, Gary Miller and Sharon Miller officiating. Services were under the direction of Turner Funeral Home, Hinton.

Marshall passed away March 11, 2026, in Oklahoma City. He was born March 6, 1936, in Welty. He served in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper and was an auto body painting expert.

He was a member of Victory Christian Fellowship in Yukon.

Our American hero

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Who was "Sonny" Kegelman? 

Answer: Commander of the first U.S. air raid on Nazi targets in World War II on Independence Day, July 4, 1942, the first mission of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in World War II.

Sonny Kegelman (far right) stands with his crew in front of a Boston bomber

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Assistant City Manager Tim Young said at the end of Tuesdays city council meeting basically what an accountant for the city said at the beginning. 

El Reno needs people to shop local. 

Young said sales tax figures for the latest reporting period were off 10 percent from previous reports. El Renos sales tax had been generating more than $1 million monthly, but the latest report, for February, came in just over $963,500. Young said use tax numbers were down 4 percent. 

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