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While they have different personalities, brothers Brayden and Mason Fulton share similar passions like hunting, fishing and riding motorcycles.

A pandemic can’t put a stop to everything. It may delay many events, and some of them may indeed be canceled. But when there’s a will there’s a way, and El Reno students are a perfect example. They want to have fun. They want to dance. And they’re not giving up.

Robert L. Allen is considered the pioneer of public television in Oklahoma. It’s doubtful you would be watching many of the programs on OETA if he hadn’t been the captain of the ship during the early years. Allen is another shining example of the kind of person El Reno has produced.

Cayden Buckner pulled this big snake out of the pond at Legion Park last week. It was one of several the youth tried to snag.

Walmart began making employees wear protective masks last week. The El Reno store has closed off its Tire and Lube Express entrance to customers and turned it into a screening entrance for employees. Each worker must have their temperature taken and wear a mask before entering the store.

MARRIAGE LICENSES Gage Dean Kingery, 24; Madison Emmalee Johnson, 23. Thomas Gunner Moser, 26; Chelsea Lauren Parker, 25. Zachary Tyler Millwee, 21; Autumn Gail Jones, 19. Jason John Spanich, 48; Julee Summer Thummel, 41. Carl Alan Garrison, 48; Sharon Orlena Moore, 40.

The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma broke through the 3,000 mark Thursday, reaching 3,017, and deaths climbed by nine to a total of 179, the Oklahoma State Department of Health reported.

Oklahomans are feeling widespread pain because of the nation’s economic shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic and a resulting glut in the demand for oil.

El Reno will wait a week longer before allowing certain businesses to open. This breaks from the guidelines set by Gov. Kevin Stitt who said some businesses could reopen Friday in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A 30-year-old El Reno man has been arrested in connection with the death of Robert James Meely, 40. Police said Andrew Keifer Beartrack, 30, was taken into custody in connection with the homicide investigation.