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Construction, fundraising on soccer complex continues
Construction on Enid’s new, seven-field soccer complex is now in the final stretch before crossing the goal line. A $3.5 million capital campaign has begun to fundraise to complete construction on Enid’s Advance Soccer Complex, fundraising coordinator Nicole Winfield...

Da Vinci’s Opens 4th Location as Growth Continues
After three years rezoning a house meant to be a new coffeehouse in Enid, Nick Jackson spent another renovating and lightening the wood inside to as white as he could get it. The walls are also painted white, the ceilings are white and the counters are white....

NextEra provides STEM kits to area high schools
NextEra Energy Resources, the world’s largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and the sun, on Monday provided 1,500 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) kits to 10 high schools in the state, including seven in Northwest Oklahoma. The company...

ERDA to provide (2) $10,000 grants to local businesses
Enid Regional Development Alliance is accepting applications for its second year of the Micro-Enterprise Grant program. In 2021, ERDA will award two $10,000 grants to local businesses with six or fewer employees. Recipients can use the funds for any business expense...

Seeing more upscale clothing shops cropping up in downtown Enid
Though it’s changed locations three times over the last decade or so, you can always hear music when you walk into the Felt Bird in downtown Enid. For 11 years, Riley and Stela Jantzen have owned their self-described “hipster boutique” and gift shop, now located at...

Flying Aces 2021 schedule released
ENID, Okla. — The Oklahoma Flying Aces professional indoor football team will play a 10-game season in 2021 according to a release issued by Champions Indoor Football on Monday. The Flying Aces have not played since the conclusion of their 2019 inaugural season after...
Consultant: Businesses, society must embrace disruption now more than ever
Businesses — and modern society as a whole — are living in an “age of disruption” thanks to the twin influences of technological advancement and COVID-19 on a younger workforce, a Tulsa management consultant said Thursday. The new normal is one of constant change and...

NWOBI breaks ground on new Enid Donor Center addition
“Had it not been for blood donors, I would not have my daughter.” Kathi Shamburg, mother of Addi Senreum, shared those words during a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday afternoon for an addition to Oklahoma Blood Institute Enid Donor Center, 301 E. Cherokee. Board...

League excited to have Enid as new member
Professional basketball is returning to Enid after a 13-year absence. Dave Magley, the president of The Basketball League, announced Monday the Enid Outlaws are being added to the four-year league, which will run from late February to June. The games will be played at...

Two Enid Companies Awarded CARES Act Money for Meat Processing Improvements
The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry was appropriated $10 million in federal funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, known as the CARES Act, to expand meat processing capacity and address supply chain disruptions as a...