ENID — Gov. Mary Fallin complimented Enid on its small business growth during a speech Wednesday night at the Grand National Quail Hunt’s annual dinner. In her brief address to a packed room at Oakwood Country Club, Fallin focused on economic growth and conservative reforms she said are furth...

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 The good old Mississippi. This isn’t the famous river, but the Mississippian oil and gas play, which has produced since the 1960s and now is producing new finds again. Horizontal drilling has made the Mississippian structure the center of new activity that has helped bring more oil business t...

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Enid city commissioners voted Tuesday night to appropriate $243,690 to the capital improvement fund to pay for an expansion of the city’s contract with Carter and Associates. Carter and Associates has been acting as the program manager for the $24.5 million Enid Renaissance Project, and as the city...

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Turning a good idea into a profitable venture takes a lot of hard work, knowledge of sound business practices and a viable business plan. And, in almost every case, it takes money. A new investment fund is working to overcome that last barrier by matching local investors, and their capital, with bu...

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ENID — Continental Resources Chairman and CEO Harold Hamm has been selected for induction into the 2011 class of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, billed as “the highest honor bestowed upon a citizen from the state of Oklahoma.” University of Oklahoma president David Boren will present Hamm for induction ...

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Travelers to Garfield County in 2010 spent over $81 million dollars during their stays, ranking it 9th out of the 77 counties in Oklahoma. A study released by the Oklahoma Tourism & Recreation Department (OTRD) entitled “The Economic Impact of Travelers on Oklahoma Counties 2009-2010,” shows tr...

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