Enid News & Eagle

07/22/2025

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❝It's taken us a long time, but we feel like this ownership is very financially stout ... This is early on. I have learned not to count those chickens, but I feel better about this than I have in a long, long time.❞
— Mayor David Mason on work to bring a theater to The District
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❝It's taken us a long time, but we feel like this ownership is very financially stout ... This is early on. I have learned not to count those chickens, but

07/22/2025

❝Kremlin reached out to give me the opportunity, and it was going to be a good fit for my family.❞ — Easton Maxwell, who is fulfilling his dream as Kremlin-Hillsdale boys head basketball coach
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KREMLIN, Okla. — Easton Maxwell has always had a dream of being a head coach whenever he started his coaching career.

07/22/2025

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07/22/2025

State Superintendent of Schools Ryan Walters issued a mandate that Oklahoma schools provide free meals, sparking dispute over whether his mandate, issued after budgets were set for the year, was legal.
❝Now we won’t have to worry about this.❞ — EPS CFO Sam Robinson
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07/21/2025

It's HOT outside ‼️ Cool off indoors while voting on the 35th annual Readers Choice awards.
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07/21/2025

👜 Purses with Purpose
Eddie Lou Strimple was selected as 2025 Woman of the Year on the 52nd anniversary of the award. Volunteer of Year also announced, and victim gives a chilling account of ❝The day I should have died.❞
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It was a day of reflection and celebration for YWCA Enid and its supporters during the annual Purses with Purpose annual luncheon and fundraiser Thursday in Stride Bank Center's Grand

07/19/2025

Wish Happy Birthday to Cleo McCullough ‼️🥳
Cleo McCullough will celebrate her 100th birthday with a come-and-go reception for family and friends Sunday, July 20, 2025, at The Grace Place, south of Hobby Lobby, from 2-3 p.m. Cards may be sent to her c/o Greenbrier Nursing Home, Room 17, 1119 E. Garriott, Enid, OK 73701.
Cleo was born July 20, 1925, in Blackwell to Wiley and Viola Replogle.
She has one daughter, Debra Seal of Burbank; two grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; one sister, JoAnn Dungan; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She is a member of Grace Ministries Church, Enid.

Cleo McCullough will celebrate her 100th birthday with a come-and-go reception for family and friends Sunday, July 20, 2025, at The Grace Place, south of Hobby Lobby, from 2-3 p.m.

07/18/2025

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07/17/2025

❝The kids are bought in. They got a good taste of it, hosting two playoff games and being a game away from the semifinals. They’re back and ready to roll.❞ 🏈

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Medford (8-3) is looking to build off last year’s success, which was winning a district title and making it to the quarterfinals in the postseason.

07/17/2025

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07/17/2025

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07/17/2025

Once in service, the pipeline will bring an average of 10.5 million gallons of water per day from Kaw Lake, according to city of Enid officials.
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