Main Street Enid received three awards at the 30th annual Oklahoma Main Street award banquet Tuesday night. Main Street Enid won awards for: • Premier Partner, Enid Regional Development Alliance. • Best Creative Fundraising Effort, History Makers Campaign. • Outstanding Image Promotion, pedestrian kiosks. ERDA was honored for its work on a variety of projects for Main Street Enid, director Kelly Tompkins said. "Recently, ERDA has mostly coordinated Phase I of the wayfinding signage system, [...]

A progress update revealed new details about a West Enid soccer complex — including what the finished facility will look like, its amenities and a feature not previously discussed. While speaking at the Enid Rotary Club luncheon Monday, May 6, 2019, Jessica Nelson, director of Enid Sports Association in charge of the project, said the complex will have a centrally located 4,000-square-foot clubhouse, a planned feature not previously made public. All told, the soccer complex [...]

Enid Public Schools students soon will be competing against communities around the world to earn a place on the International Space Station, not for themselves, but for science. For the communities that participate, the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program challenges students fifth through 12th grades to design experiments to the same standards demanded of professional scientists. The best experiments are selected to take flight to the International Space Station. While the students won't be suiting up [...]

Autry Technology Center is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Strate Center for Business Development on May 8, according to a news release from Autry. For a decade, the center has served as a business incubator, providing tools, advice, training and office space for small businesses and entrepreneurs looking to bring their ideas to life or grow their existing businesses. "The Strate Center offers more than 23,000 total square feet of incubation space. All areas [...]

Enid has ranked 11th among the top small cities to start a business, according to one study. More than 1,200 small cities — with populations between 25,000 and 100,000 — were compared in the study performed by WalletHub, a personal-finance website. The cities were compared on business environment, access to resources and business costs, the WalletHub website states. Ranking ahead of Enid are Holland, Mich.; St. George, Utah; Aberdeen, S.D.; Wilson, N.C.; Cheyenne, Wyo.; Clearfield, Utah; [...]

Jumbo Foods is renovating its store at 1716 S. Van Buren in Enid, with plans to reopen the store with expanded products and services. The grocery store and restaurant, a longtime fixture of the Van Buren Center shopping center, will be closed for a few weeks while renovations and remodeling are completed, said Gerald Blevins, president of Jumbo Foods. “We want to reassure customers that we will reopen as soon as possible, and I think [...]