Eli Berry envisions an apartment complex that isn't quite like anything else available in Enid. Plans may not be drawn up yet, but they are in motion. "There's not a similar project right now," the Enid-based developer and apartment manager said. "There's not one that's been developed like it, there's not one to my knowledge that's in conception similar to what I would like to see." Berry recently earned approval to rezone a pair of [...]

Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades awarded ‘A’ grades to both St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center and Integris Bass Baptist Health Center in its Fall 2019 Hospital Safety Grade report. The safety grades are assigned to more than 2,600 general acute-care hospitals across the nation twice annually, and use national performance measures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Leapfrog Hospital Sur­vey and other supplemental data sources, according to the group’s website. “Taken together, [...]

Fall is my favorite time of the year. It seems that as soon as November rolls around, the world takes on a different attitude. People seem a little more generous and a little more in tune with the important things in life. This is the season of Thanksgiving…and every day that I live in Enid, Oklahoma, I am thankful. I am fortunate enough to have lived and worked internationally and I still travel regularly with my [...]

Empathy comes from experience, and in a field like social work, there are few qualities more necessary, according to Jennifer Pribble. As director of field experience for Northwestern Oklahoma State University-Enid's social work department, it's Pribble's responsibility to see students put what they've learned into practice, and that they learn from practice what can't be taught in a classroom. But with the addition of a brand new virtual reality lab opened Friday, Pribble sees a [...]

The Skeleton Creek wind farm project, initially planned to be up and running by the end of 2019, has been pushed back by a year as talks over air space between NextEra Energy Resources and Vance Air Force Base continue. “There’s a number of factors ... and certainly our interactions with the Air Force base are very important and a big part of that,” NextEra spokesman Bryan Garner said, adding that “other considerations” also contributed [...]

Less than a year after ground was broken on Fowler Early Childhood Learning Center, construction of the $2.1 million facility is complete. To contact the Fowler Center call (580) 366-7000. A joint project between Enid Public Schools and Northwestern Oklahoma State University, the center is equipped to educate both pre-K children and college students. The first-ever semester of classes at the center kicked off Monday, with the first student led through the front door by [...]