A new committee of Enid Regional Developmental Alliance is seeking both new members and contact information for minority-owned businesses. ERDA’s new inclusive prosperity committee met for the first time Monday, brainstorming actionable goals to address the systemic mistreatment of Black people and other minorities in Enid’s business community. “It falls to us,” ERDA Executive Director Lisa Powell said at Monday’s semi-virtual meeting. The committee concluded its first task to tackle Enid’s racial inequity would be [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma has launched a new effort to lure the automotive industry, and state economic leaders say there’s room for growth in the recent race to land a Tesla plant. Oklahoma has secured 2,700 resumes of engineers and other highly trained individuals and has laid out a convincing case that Tesla’s costs for manufacturing in Tulsa would be 25-35% less than costs in Austin, Texas, The Journal Record reported Wednesday. Secretary of [...]

ENID, OK – Governor Kevin Stitt, alongside Brent Kisling, Executive Director, Oklahoma Department of Commerce, made a visit to Enid on Friday, August 7 to meet with business owners and community leaders to discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and see how the community and its businesses have adapted over the past few months. While in Enid, Governor Stitt and Director Kisling along with Lisa Powell, Executive Director of the Enid Regional Development Alliance [...]

Some Enid residents remember when KOCO-TV channel 5 was located inside Streets Electronics at 206 E Randolph, in downtown Enid. According to the publication by Bill Moore, "Television," The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, it went on air in 1954 as KGEO-TV. Within a few years, the ABC affiliate moved to Oklahoma City, when it changed its call letters to KOCO. Fast forward to 2017, when two accountants met, each with years of experience [...]

Park Avenue Thrift recently awarded $140,000 to 14 organizations in Enid, through the nonprofit's 2020 community grants and sponsorships. The 2020 grant recipients are 4RKids, Atelier, Chautauqua, Cimarron Montessori School, Enid Public Schools, Chisholm Public Schools, Enid Welcome Table, Enid Symphony Association, Gaslight Theatre, Junior Welfare League of Enid, Leonardo’s Children’s Museum, Lifelong Learning Institute of Enid, Main Street Enid, Monroe Elementary and RSVP of Enid. “Due to the pandemic, many of the organizations we [...]

VANCE AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. — As the civil aviation industry grows, and as the Air Force faces a persistent pilot shortage, recruiters in industry and military alike are looking to a relatively untapped pool of qualified candidates — women. According to the Air Force and FAA, only about 6% of pilots in the Air Force, and in the aviation industry overall, were women in 2019. Outside the cockpit, women are even more underrepresented in [...]