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The City of El Reno is inviting residents, business owners and volunteers to take part in a community-wide Spring Cleanup designed to freshen up neighborhoods, public spaces and corridors ahead of a busy season of community events and Route 66 travel.

The “Get Your Kicks on a Clean Route 66” initiative will take place Friday, April 17, and Saturday, April 18, beginning at 9 a.m. each day. Participants will join efforts across the community to pick up trash, pull weeds, plant flowers and assist neighbors with yard work. 

El Reno High School celebrated the annual prom on Friday.

Students danced and laughed the night away as the school year draws closer to the end.

See the weekend Tribune for more photos.

An El Reno teen was stabbed, allegedly by another teen earlier this month, police said. 

Police reports said two 13-year-old boys were involved in an argument when one of them pulled out a knife and stabbed the other. The incident happened April 2 on East Foreman near North Donald.

Police reported they were notified of the incident at about 8:15 p.m.

The injured teen was treated by an EMS crew at the scene and later taken to a trauma center for evaluation and further treatment. The wound was said to be in the left side of his back. 

The Route 66 Road Ahead Partnership, in collaboration with statewide Route 66 organizations, is launching a collectible series of trading cards to celebrate the Route 66 Centennial. 

Beginning April 15, the cards will be available for $1 each at locations along the Route 66 corridor from Illinois to California.

As part of the launch, The Filling Station Visitor Center will serve as the exclusive location to purchase a Pony Bridge trading card, offering visitors a unique opportunity to collect a piece of local Route 66 history.

Six students from Redlands Community College were recently honored at the State Capitol by the Oklahoma Association of Community Colleges and Phi Theta Kappa for their outstanding academic achievement, record in the classroom and leadership ability. 

Sophomores Kyla Bonds, Mustang, and Kenlynn Chaney, Cement, received national recognition for demonstrating a strong commitment to their education, Redlands and their communities. Bonds was one of 20 students nationally named to the All-USA Academic Team.

LAS VEGAS - The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes have signed a letter of intent with Wind Harvest International to install the first phase of wind turbines at the Lucky Star Casino in Concho.

The letter of intent was signed by Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Gov. Reggie Wassana and Wind Harvest at the Reservation Economic Summit in Las Vegas in late March. 

The agreement, Wassana said, represents a significant milestone in the tribes commitment to clean energy, economic self-determination and sustainable development. 

STILLWATER – Say you have a patch of land that’s been more of a headache than a payoff. Some years, you farm it. Some years, you don’t. The soil is thin, the yields are low and the math never quite works out.

What if you just planted trees instead?

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When Yukon High School agriculture instructors Dustin Beams and Scott Stevens brought the school’s FFA and special needs students together for an impromptu meet-and-greet in 2019, no one imagined what would grow from that simple gathering.

Seven years later, it’s evolved into the Third Annual Canadian County “United We Show” Special Needs Livestock Show.

“Flatbellies” is back. 

The 2001 work of fiction about the 1966 El Venito (Oklahoma) High School golf team as written through the lens of Dr. Alan B. Hollingsworth has been re-released celebrating its 25th year. 

While names were changed to protect the not-so-innocent, Flatbellies was actually the true life experiences, at least some of them, of Hollingsworth’s own El Reno High School golf team from the same year.