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City Manager Matt Sandidge drew laughter when he told last week’s El Reno Now audience that all was right with El Reno now that “Sonic has opened.”

Sandidge said the new restaurant on Sunset Drive was a welcome addition. The store had to be torn down and rebuilt after a motorist ran through the drive-in.

Sandidge also pointed to the major changes at Country Club Square Shopping Center.

“Who can remember what that shopping center looked like 10 years ago,” he asked. “It was a vacant Walmart and not much else.”

Around two dozen El Reno High senior girls gathered for the inaugural Senior Sip event over the weekend.

The event featured guest speakers, tea, brunch and door prizes.

Janice Cox is out to break a record, but she needs your help to get it done.

Cox is an El Reno letter carrier and since 2006 she’s been the coordinator and driving force behind the Annual Letter Carriers Food Drive.

This year’s campaign is set for May 13, with all food collected going to support The Lord's Harvest, El Reno’s food ministry founded and operated by Nikki Pruitt.

Riverside School has been named a Great Expectations Model School.

Riverside Superintendent Lisa Derryberry said the GE achievement will be celebrated by the school at a May 8 gathering. The celebration is set for 1 p.m., and the community is invited to attend.

The Great Expectations Program, founded in 1991, is a research-based educational reform model that brings change and innovation to schools.

In education debates, Texas is often portrayed as the land of milk and honey for supposedly downtrodden Oklahoma educators.

Texas teacher-pay levels and per-pupil funding are portrayed as far greater than in Oklahoma, freeing Texas school officials from the challenges facing their Oklahoma counterparts.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Legislation allowing restaurants and school cafeterias to donate leftover food without threat of civil liability, except in certain circumstances, has been signed into law.

House Bill 1542, authored by Rep. Anthony Moore, R-Clinton, grants civil immunity to restaurants and school cafeterias donating leftover food.

“Unfortunately, the lack of protection from civil action has prevented Oklahoma’s restaurants and school cafeterias from donating perfectly good food to those in need,” Moore said.

OKLAHOMA CITY— The full Senate last week approved House Bill 2746.

The bill, by Sen. Julia Kirt, D-Oklahoma City, creates a strict set of criteria by which the guardian of a person with a grave disability would be able to access secure transport to get their family member to the care they need.

“I would like to recognize the tireless effort of Sarah Smith, a wonderful advocate who has pushed this bill through the process,” Kirt said.

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LVNV Funding LLC vs. Billye Nipper for $864.75 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

LVNV Funding LLC vs. Vincent Dehdarani for $1,201.06 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Cavalry SPV I LLC vs. Terri Hays for $2,298.71 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

The El Reno Tribune’s 2023 Burger Day section contains the following content:

El Reno’s world-famous Big Burger on the move

Burger Day’s history piled high with onions that bring you back

Music, science, dance and exotic animals to fill Burger Day stages

El Reno police said information was received Thursday morning that a person was being held against their will in an apartment located at 303 N. Barker Ave. The call came in just after 4:30.

Police dispatchers believed the caller was trying to keep the call quiet.

“Due to the tone and context of the call, dispatch personnel believed the reporting party, later identified to be a 49-year-old female, had surreptitiously called 911 in an apparent attempt to keep the call secret,” said reports from police.