Entries for January 2010

If Enid really wants to be the best in Oklahoma…we need to do what it takes to be the best. December 8, 2009 Broken Arrow passed a $295 million bond issue for new school construction and buses. December 8, 2009 Norman passed a $110 million bond issue for construction, maintenance and improveme...

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Everyone counts, and that is exactly the message workers in U.S. Census Bureau want people to understand. The local office, which oversees 16 counties in Oklahoma, is gearing up to count every resident under its charge. Most of that work will be done in March through mail-outs and house-to-house v...

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Three more Enid Public Schools teachers — Janet Jones, Rhonda Harlow and Cristin Ashcraft — recently attained national board certification, one of the profession’s top honors. Jones is a fifth-grade teacher at Garfield Elem-entary School. Harlow is a reading specialist at Monroe Elementary School a...

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Center president Andi Holland said the project, which broke ground in September 2007, is “going very well.” “Construction in the building itself is winding down,” she said. “They’re doing finish work, pouring sidewalks and are getting ready to do landscaping as soon as it warms up a bit.” She said...

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— In flipping through the pages featuring Enid Main Street in the January-February issue of “Oklahoma Today” magazine, it’s hard not to stop at Maxine Sanford Austin’s photograph. There she is on page 70, looking out at the camera. The 99-year-old longtime resident and volunteer represents the hear...

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ENID — Enid home sales in 2009 ended at or above expectations, local real estate officials said. Enid Metro Association of Realtors members sold 832 homes at an average price of $108,248 in 2009, according to data provided by former EMAR President Kathy Fowler. That’s considerably less than the 96...

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