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A Warr Acres company has been awarded a $10 million contract to build a new roundabout at SH 66 and U.S. 81. The Oklahoma Transportation Commission, at its Sept. 11 meeting, awarded a $10,030,072.14 low bid contract to Redlands Contracting LLC for the intersection modification project.

Improvements at El Reno Regional Airport are expected to continue after city leaders signed off on contracts and grant proposals aimed at upgrades for the municipal airport. City council voted unanimously on the planned airport improvements. The action came at last week’s regular meeting.

El Reno High School will host an All Classes Alumni Homecoming Day Rally on Friday. The event will begin at 8:30 a.m. at Jenks Simmons Field House, with a get-together open to all EHS grads and guests. At 9 a.m., a sign-in will be held with name tags and graduation year coordinated.

The 2023 El Reno High School All Sports Homecoming Ceremony will be held Friday night at 6:30 prior to the start of the home football game with Elgin at Memorial Stadium. One of these EHS male and female students will be crowned king and queen.

OKLAHOMA CITY — State health officials have announced plans to relocate the state’s largest inpatient mental health treatment facility to Oklahoma City from Norman, where it has stood for more than a century.

Hundreds of teachers from across nearly 200 school districts have joined a signing bonus program designed to attract new teachers into Oklahoma classrooms, state education officials said.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), along with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and other Republican senators sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after new evidence surfaced in August contradicting FBI Director...

MARRIAGE LICENSES William Melvin Thomas, 52; Amy Louise Paskoff, 49. Caleb Michael Case, 29; Tori Breann Dodson, 27. Morgan Mark McClelland, 59; Kelley Renee Collingwood, 52. Kade Michael Woods, 22; Keleigh Jayne Koehn, 20. Mario Palacios Barragan, 31; Carla Faride Gallegos Villalba, 49.

Canadian Valley Technology Center’s $75 million bond issue was narrowly defeated in Tuesday’s special election.

Vicki Proctor spent 23 years serving for free on the El Reno Municipal Planning Commission. On Tuesday, Mayor Steve Jensen read a proclamation thanking Proctor for her service, but also pointed out she’s been involved in efforts to improve El Reno for much longer.