Lifestyle

This Ed Zweiacher photo won Best of Show at the Canadian County Fair in the professional division. The judge was Tricia Virtue Parris.The photo is of the Longhorns at Wichita Wildlife Refuge with Mount Scott in the background.

Schools throughout Canadian County are now back in session for the 2025-26 school year.

The August meeting of the Oklahoma Chapter AE of P.E.O. International was hosted by Janice Jensen at a local coffee shop. Other members present were Margaret Price, Ann Zavy, Karen Pappas, Christy Eichholz, Barbara Johnson, Becky Reuter, Anna Rinehart and Janan Fletcher.

Lamplighters OHCE of Canadian County met recently at Mount Zion Global Methodist Church.

Jostens, the leading producer of yearbooks and student-created content, announced that Okarche High School’s yearbook program has achieved the Jostens National Yearbook Program of Excellence 2025 Award at the Gold Level.The National Yearbook Program of Excellence recognizes engaging yearbooks that...

Seventeen youth ages 6-10 recently attended a Kids Cooking 101 class in El Reno.Participants received hands-on cooking experience making pancakes, breakfast burritos, sweet Hawaiian mini-burgers, wild-wrapped wieners, English muffin pizzas and ice cream in a bag.They also learned about measuring...

Eleven youth ages 10 and up recently attended a Kids in the Kitchen class in El Reno.Participants received hands-on cooking experience making french toast, yeast bread in a bag, grape jelly, strawberry jam, butter and fruit pizza.The kids decorated fabric aprons and received goody bags filled with...

Seventy-nine of the 140 descendants of Elmo and Agnes Finnigan gathered for their annual reunion recently at Roman Nose State Park.

Master Gardener training classes start this fall, with many of the lessons taught by Extension specialists from OSU-Stillwater in the field of horticulture. Topics range from entomology to water conservation.