An Enid photographer earned high praise and an armful of awards Monday for her artistic flair displayed in a pair of portrait photos featuring local subjects. At a professional photographer’s convention and gala in Atlanta, photographer Dawn Muncy was honored with a Gold Medallion Award by American Society of Professional Photographers for her photograph titled “From Dust We Came.” “There’s no way I ever anticipated winning this award,” Muncy said, adding that the Gold Medallion [...]

In a short regular meeting on January 15, Enid City Commission unanimously voted to authorize a $57.7 million loan to pay for a portion of the Kaw Lake water pipeline project. Commissioners unanimously approved both companion agenda items pertaining to the authorization of the loan. One of the items involved Enid Municipal Authority authorizing the $57.2 million loan from Oklahoma Water Resources Board. The unanimous approval completes all actions and execution of loan documents. The [...]

Holistic financial services firm Wymer Brownlee Wealth Strategies is celebrating 50 years of business this month. The firm was founded in Fairview and is headquartered in Enid. During the last five decades, the firm’s grown from a home-based tax and accounting business to the existing multi-location wealth strategy firm, whose advisers represent the largest independent affiliate of HD Vest Financial Services, according to the company. A 50th anniversary celebration is planned to be at the [...]

Enid, Oklahoma – Following the announcement that Governor Elect Kevin Stitt appointed long-time Enid Regional Development Alliance (ERDA) Executive Director Brent Kisling to serve as the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, the ERDA Board held a special meeting and appointed Associate Director of ERDA Lisa Powell, as the Interim-Executive Director of the organization. “For the past decade Lisa has served alongside Brent at the ERDA,” said Chairman of the ERDA Board, [...]

An Enid owned diagnostic imaging center is expanding its services and its business model of offering competitive cash-pay prices for patients who pay out-of-pocket, or for those with high insurance deductibles. Zoom Diagnostic Imaging, 1113 W. Cherry, Enid, Oklahoma opened in September 2017 with one CT scan machine, then added an MRI machine in October 2018 and last month added a digital X-ray machine. The diagnostic imaging center is the work of Zoom President Jermaine [...]

It’s been nearly three years since Enid voters approved a $92.8 million school bond issue, and Enid Public Schools has been tirelessly putting that funding to work ever since, tackling dozens of projects big and small across the district. EPS is down to the last $3.7 million of that bond money, facility construction director Michael Shuck said, and there are plans in place for that final sum too. “It’s crazy, you think of that money [...]