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Air Force’s sixth-busiest airfield produces some of the service’s best airmen

February 28, 2011

On most days the skies over Vance Air Force Base are filled with aircraft, fulfilling the base’s primary mission of training one-third of U.S. Air Force pilots, as well as pilots from the Navy, Marines and allied nations. Vance is not the busiest airfield in the Air Force — it isn’t even ...

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BOREN ANNOUNCES $39 MILLION NEW MARKET TAX CREDIT AWARD FOR RURAL ENTERPRISES OF OKLAHOMA

February 25, 2011

U.S. Congressman Dan Boren announced today the allocation of $39 million in federal New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) to Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma, Inc. (REI). The NMTC Program, administered by the U.S. Treasury Department's CDFI Fund, was created to stimulate economic development and e...

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Census Bureau: About 90 percent of housing units in Census Bureau: About 90 percent of housing units in

February 25, 2011

Talk to anyone who’s been in Enid a while, and they’ll tell you Enid has a tight housing market. But what does the data say? According to data released within the last week by U.S. Census Bureau, about 90 percent of housing units in Enid are occupied, with only about 10 percent vacant....

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Sales tax revenue is good for Enid

February 23, 2011

Sales tax receipts from Enid sales at the end of December and beginning of January came in about 4 percent higher than last year. According to data from Oklahoma Tax Commission, Enid brought in about 3.99 percent more in sales tax receipts for the period beginning Dec. 16, 2010, and endin...

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Travis and Presley video shows kids how to deal with Bullies

February 22, 2011

Travis Brorsen and his dog Presley are showing children how to deal with bullies. One of the videos in Brorsen’s series, “Adventures with Travis & Presley,” teaches kids what to do when they are confronted by a bully. The videos are geared toward the 2- to 7-year-old range, Brorsen...

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Livestock dealer is nation's biggest

February 22, 2011

In 1936, Karl Winter started Winter Livestock in Dodge City, Kan. Many years later, Ray Winter and his son, Mark Winter, brought the business to Enid in the early 1990s. Since then, it has become the largest independent cattle marketing company in the nation. The Enid-based compa...

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