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OKLAHOMA CITY – The Senate Finance Committee held an interim study looking at incentivizing greater voluntary use of gun safes through tax exemptions. The study was requested by Sen. Jo Anna Dossett, D-Tulsa.

MUNICIPAL COURT Brittany Gonzalez, El Reno, driving under suspension, $395. Dion Christopher Peacock, Chickasha, expired tag and failure to stop at stop sign, $330. Meranda Marie Hines, El Reno, speeding, $165. Summer Ellen Gann, Yukon, speeding, $175.

Several hundred people turned out recently for a tribute to former Redlands Community College President Jack Bryant. The event, which featured a live and silent auction, helped raise close to $70,000 that will go toward the construction of a soccer stadium at Redlands.

Airport Manager Bailey Flaming literally brought down the curtain on the 2023 El Reno Fly-In and Community Day, making her first-ever tandem skydive on short notice. “I was told to go by one of our performers. There was no practice.

A nonprofit group is spearheading an effort to save the old Canadian County Jail, with the goal to reopen the historic building in fall 2025 as a museum and education center.

In a split vote, Canadian County commissioners added Juneteenth to the 2024 holiday schedule. Juneteenth, which commemorates the emancipation of African American slaves, has been observed as a federal holiday since 2021. But it has not been part of the official Canadian County holiday calendar.

LAWSUITS Velocity Investments LLC vs. Jennifer McCalip for $1,089.01 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees. Velocity Investments LLC vs. Rafael Vargas for $8,500 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Carol Nichols knows about the 23rd Psalm. She has lived it. She has sobbed and prayed her way wandering in the “valley of the shadow of death” and now she has written about it. She had to write about it. What else could she do? She had lost the love of her life, her husband.

Reggie Jammer from Fort Cavazos in Kileen, Texas, reaches back to shoot a balloon off a post during the mounted pistol competition at the 2023 U.S. Cavalry Competition held last week at Fort Reno. Riders navigate a series of jumps on horseback and must fire and bust a balloon at each station.

Mike Gallaway puts his aerobatic plane into a vertical climb during El Reno’s Fly-In and Community Day Saturday at the El Reno Municipal Airpark. See Saturday’s edition for coverage from the event.