A 19-year-old El Reno woman was injured last week in a collision that occurred on U.S. 81 at Britton Road.
The accident occurred shortly after 11 a.m. April 3.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Haylee Martin was traveling south on 81 when her vehicle collided with a vehicle driven by Mary Voss, 79, of Yukon.
Voss was traveling west on Britton. OHP said the Yukon woman failed to yield.
LAWSUITS
The Credit Union Loan Source LLC vs. Luis Castilleja for $73,652.98 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.
Stephen and Darla Upchurch and Lacie Upchurch, individually and as mother of C.S. and H.S., minor children, vs. the City of Mustang and Wright Water Corporation for an amount in excess of $75,000 for alleged compensatory and punitive damages.
El Reno’s Carnegie Library got a boost in helping to digitize historic records with a grant from the Oklahoma Historical Society.
The El Reno library received $15,155 for a project that will help fund the digitization of items focusing on urban development, local government and local events during territorial and early statehood. Items will be digitized and placed on The Gateway to Oklahoma History, an online repository of Oklahoma history. The funds are part of the Oklahoma Heritage Preservation Grant Program.
This Canada goose seems to be walking off the distance for a birdie putt for Redlands Community College sophomore Clara Peake (background) on the 18th green at Crimson Creek Golf Course last week.
The waterfowl walked around the green and watched golfers come and go through the hole for more than an hour.
See related coverage on the Women’s Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships here.
A Canadian Valley Technology Center board member withstood a challenge to retain his Board of Education post. Incumbent Dean Riddell of Yukon on Tuesday won CV Tech’s Zone 1 board election by a 62.67 percent majority.
Some 4,983 votes were cast in 102 precincts across the multi-county Canadian Valley school district, with Riddell besting challenger Cotton Ruzicka of Yukon by a 3,123-1,860 vote.
Two units from the El Reno Fire Department and a third from El Reno FCI responded to this house fire in the 400 block of South Barker Avenue Wednesday morning.
According to the ERPD incident report, the structure received $80,000 damage and loss of contents was estimated at $20,000.
BlueSTEM AgriLearning Center’s 2024 Agriscience Symposium will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 18 in the Austin Family Conference Center at Redlands Community College, 1300 S. Country Club Road.
BlueSTEM students representing five school districts will display their agriscience research project posters.
Calumet High School: Aspen Burns, Kylista Burton and Mikah Mayo.
El Reno Fire Department Capt. David Baker (left) and firefighter Parker Crosby stand next to the trash can that was fished out of the Legion Park pond using the hook and pole Wednesday afternoon.
According to El Reno Police Department Capt. David Beaty, someone set the trash can on fire and a bystander tossed the can into the pond to put out the flames.
Under existing state law, Oklahoma public schools can treat children with special needs differently than other children whenever a family seeks an open transfer into another district.
Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City, said the discrimination against those children, who have an individualized education program (IEP), is likely illegal and sets up the state for legal problems.
“I know for a fact that IEP transfers are not treated with the same respect that students who do not have some special needs are,” Treat said.
The U.S. Senate easily passed a resolution to repeal a Biden administration rule allowing for beef to be imported from Paraguay.
The measure, introduced by Democrat Jon Tester of Montana and Republican Mike Rounds of South Dakota, passed on a bipartisan 70-25 vote.
