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Three vendors have been selected to deliver truckloads of materials for Canadian County road construction projects.

Canadian County commissioners voted 3-0 to award a rock hauling contract to Zummallen Rock & Grain of Okarche and Farmer’s Supply & Transportation of Cheyenne.

Commissioners had postponed action one week earlier so they could review a range of per-ton mile prices from five companies interested in having their trucks pick up and bring rock to Canadian County road sites.

A Canadian County inmate has been sentenced to two years in prison for having a cell phone at the county jail.

Oklahoma City’s Miranda Gwen Sorber, 40, has been convicted after pleading guilty to possession of an electronic device in a penal institution.

Sorber, already a convicted felon, was charged with the felony May 19 in Canadian County District Court.

With a new school year on the horizon, it’s worth looking at some of the new laws that will impact education across the state.

The start of the 2022-23 school year marks the implementation of a change to the school funding formula passed by the Legislature in 2021.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

Nicholas Ray Stine, 24; Kaylee Nicole Miller, 23.

Jacob Ryan Blalock, 30; Erin Elizabeth Parkin, 29.

Trent Joshua Blake Dodson, 31; Shannon Brooke Burger, 28.

MUNICIPAL COURT

Ahmed Hussein Alderi, Jacksonville, Fla., failure to stop at stop sign, $165.

Mohammed Yahiya Ahmed, Wichita, Kan., speeding, $195.

Aldan Ray Whiteshirt, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $245.

Christopher Allen Strider, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $295.

Residents from around the county were treated to a pair of fireworks displays over the recent Fourth of July holiday.

A divided city council agreed to give El Reno residents the opportunity to look over three options for new ward boundaries.

The proposals are expected to be part of a public hearing in August.

During a special council meeting at noon on July 5, the council needed to consider what to do about the matter three separate times before finally coming to an agreement.

I’ve never pretended to be a world traveler who can reel off the vacation steals and deals quicker than our nation’s airlines can cancel flights during peak season.

I do, however, like to travel. It was sequenced into my DNA at an early age as my parents took my brother and me along with them to countless horticulture conferences across the United States and Canada.

At last count I can mark off 33 states and two border countries in North America. Then there was the two-week whirlwind jaunt through Europe as a senior in high school.

“Peter Pan and Wendy: A Musical” is coming to the El Reno Community Theatre for six different performances. The show opens July 8 and the performances are happening from July 8-10 and July 15-17.

Director Kevan Dunkelberg has been working on this show for a little over a month with his cast of seven, and he is ready to share the play with the community.

Dunkelberg and the cast started rehearsals back in May. It’s almost time for theater enjoyers to get to see the results of their hard work.

Canadian County commissioners approved contracts between the Gary E. Miller Canadian County Children’s Justice Center and 22 counties “for the provision to secure juvenile detention services” for fiscal year 2023.

The vote was 2-1, as it has been for several years.

Voicing his opposition was District 1 Commissioner Marc Hader, who said ballot language approved by voters 26 years ago to build the sales tax-funded center only provided for Canadian County juveniles to be housed there.

Zonelle Rainbolt, executive editor of Wesner Publications, took office as president of the Oklahoma Press Association July 1.

OPA members elected Rainbolt during the annual business meeting at the June 10-11 OPA Convention in Oklahoma City.

Rainbolt, who succeeds John Denny Montgomery as president, will serve a one-year term. Rainbolt was first named to the OPA board of directors in 2017.

“I am a strong believer in a free, independent and accountable press,” Rainbolt said.