Redlands Community College is not starting a football program.
“We do not have a football program and have no plans to start a program. The only club sport we operate is ESports. All the rest are sanctioned by the National Junior College Athletic Association and we have not declared or have any plans to declare football,” said RCC President Jack Bryant.
Ky Jones climbs on top of the Heritage Express Trolley to work on the air conditioning units. Vicki Proctor and Fred Koebrick talk about plans for upcoming trolley tours. Tribune photographer/Ray Dyer
El Reno's Heritage Express Trolley should be offering riders a cool trip through the historic downtown area after the air conditioning units on the vintage car are serviced.
Love's Travel Stops has opened its tire retread plant and distribution center in El Reno.
The 220,000-square-foot facility doubles the size of the one it replaces in Grand Prairie, Texas. The new plant is located on Radio Road, just south of I-40.
In a statement, Love's said the new center will create about 50 jobs.
Redlands Community College and Canadian Valley Technology Center have worked together for years to expand educational offerings and support area businesses, knowing that collaboration was the key to true economic prosperity in their service region. The efforts have been recognized by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education with the Regents Business Partnership Excellence Award.
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series about Ida’s Law, which establishes a liaison to work with law enforcement agencies and families to solve Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons cases throughout Oklahoma. The series explores Ida Beard’s story, legislation history and more.
The El Reno Police Department received a call July 15, 2015, that Ida Beard was missing.
Six years later, the 35-year-old Cheyenne and Arapaho female tribal member is still missing. Police have no credible leads.
Following a 17-minute debate, the El Reno School Board voted 4-0 last week to approve the district’s 2020-21 Return to Learn Plan – without a mandatory mask or vaccine mandate.
“There is not a lot of change (from last year). One of the changes that is most glaring is there is no mask mandate. Under the circumstances, we will be leaving 2,200 of our kids unprotected by not having a vaccine and mask mandate and I think that is a mistake.
“However, it’s state law and it’s my job to follow state law,” said El Reno Superintendent Craig McVay.
El Reno Public Schools opened up classes for the 2021-22 term on Thursday but the district is already facing quarantines and new cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19.
The district’s COVID-19 Dashboard Report, dated Aug. 11, showed 11 students have tested positive for the virus. Five of those students are in the high school, three from Etta Dale Junior High and one each from Hillcrest, Lincoln and Roblyer learning centers.
Downtown El Reno appears set to make another run at establishing a Business Improvement District and the area could also see a multi-story building erected on an empty lot in the 200 block of South Rock Island.
In a unanimous 5-0 vote, the city council on Tuesday hired former City Manager Dan Galloway to serve as a consultant in an effort to create the Business Improvement District. Galloway will be paid $3,000 for his efforts.
VFW Post 382 in El Reno celebrated National Purple Heart Day Aug. 7, serving as host for the Oklahoma Military Order of the Purple Heart (OMOPH) and Oklahoma Department of Veteran Affairs (ODVA) annual awards ceremony.
Oklahoma Veteran Commissioner and State Commander of Oklahoma Purple Heart, Larry Van Schuyver, and Deputy Director with ODVA, Sarah Lane, opened the ceremony, while Jerry Ball offered prayer. State Rep. Tammy Pevehouse-Townley sang the National Anthem. General Thompson, State Adjutant General, was also present to help present the award recipients.
It appears Yukon will continue buying Oklahoma City water for the foreseeable future as city administrators recommend terminating a public trust formed about 20 years ago to find a long-term water source for Canadian County municipalities.
Faced with the challenge of spending many millions of dollars to build and operate new water facilities, Yukon and Mustang city leaders will consider dissolving the Central Oklahoma Water Resource Authority (COWRA).
