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Canadian County District Judge Paul Hesse has been named to serve as the presiding judge of the state’s multi-county grand jury.

Hesse was appointed to the position last week by the chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. He will begin his administrative and judicial duties of the multi-county grand jury immediately.

The multi-county grand jury investigates crimes that occur in every county of the state, as well as crimes that implicate multiple counties.

LAWSUITS

Synchrony Bank vs. Nathan Lane for $2,072.07 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Harbor Insurance Company vs. Christopher Holland for $5,087 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Bank of America N.A. vs. Sunny Adrienne Graham for $3,850.53 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Bank of America N.A. vs. Andrew Darryl Whiteaker for $6,972.76 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Tea towels may very well help preserve the first mural painted in downtown El Reno. And possibly help create some more.

The El Reno Chamber of Commerce and the Main Street program are partnering in an effort to preserve the mural created by the late Charlie Beecham.

Beecham painted the History of El Reno mural in the early 1980s. It can be seen above the MidFirst Bank drive-thru on Woodson, between Rock Island and Bickford.

Redlands Community College will again be on the front lines of the state’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, after hosting Canadian County’s first large-scale shot portals earlier this year.

Redlands has partnered with Indian Health Service to offer vaccines to both its student body as well as its college employees. The first pod will be Friday, April 2, with a follow-up pod set for April 30.

Redlands students and employees wishing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 on those dates must register online.

El Reno Live focused on the upcoming Burger Day festival and included applause for the Indian Health Service and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes for helping to vaccinate area residents against COVID-19.

Mayor Matt White and Main Street Director Shana Ford were joined by Morgan Schwarz, owner of Hot Mess Station in the weekly program that airs live on the city’s Facebook site.

WASHINGTON -- The House used Women’s History Month to serve as the backdrop for passing legislation to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act and to remove the 1982 deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

House Democratic women dressed in suffragette white to commemorate the occasion and to usher through what they say are landmark pieces of legislation to advance women's rights.

WASHINGTON — Tribes in Oklahoma are both hopeful and anxious as they wait for the funds and spending rules from the American Rescue Plan that President Joe Biden signed last week.

Native American tribes nationwide will receive more than $31 billion as part of the American Rescue Plan, the largest one-time investment to Native American communities in history.

However, the amount of money set to be given to Oklahoma tribes on an individual basis is largely unknown and likely will be until further tribal consultation has occurred.

LAWSUITS

Capital One Bank N.A. vs. Jesse A. Eskew for $3,562.79 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Crown Asset Management LLC vs. Rhonda L. Weisbrod for $1,391.27 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Ford Motor Credit Company LLC vs. Courtney McClure for $5,073.13 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Ford Motor Credit Company LLC vs. Ashlee Taylor for $9,851.46 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Beginning Tuesday, March 30 and running through Friday, April 2, Lucky Star Casino will be hosting a COVID-19 vaccination clinic for anyone age 18 or older.

All recipients who get the shot will receive $25 in free play to take their shot at big money that day.

Editor’s Note: Nancy Marie Spears lives in El Reno and is a student in the Gaylord School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Oklahoma. She is a member of the Cherokee Nation.

“I can look you in the eye and just about tell sincerity in somebody,” said Dorothy WhiteHorse DeLaune, who built an enduring friendship with a then 10-year-old German actress on a New Mexico movie set.

“I knew she was a special child, there was nothing snobby or anything,” said WhiteHorse, 88.