Past Stories

A little bit traditional, a little bit contemporary, a whole lot of worship. That’s what you can expect to find at Crossings Community Church, at 14600 N. Portland Ave, in north Oklahoma City. Founded in 1959 on the principles of service and teaching the unconditional love of Jesus Christ, the church has grown and changed and now serves over 6,000 people every Sunday.

Edmond man collects vintage fishing lures.

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” The familiar cliché gets drilled into every elementary school student and they carry it with them for the rest of their lives.

Glen McEntire walks into the Edmond coffee shop like John Wayne, grins through his white, trimmed beard and immediately starts talking guns.

How Bruce Piano is preserving a family tradition.

Four families share their stories of why they chose to live in Edmond

The Haggard family name is one that stands for quality, service and tradition. Earle Haggard and his staff strive to continue and improve that legacy while running Haggard’s Fine Furniture.

If you’ve ever pleaded with a toddler to eat his fruits and vegetables or abandoned the well-intentioned apple and yogurt on your desk to join colleagues for lunch—where the gossip was even juicier than the cheeseburger—you’re not alone. Trying to maintain nutritional balance in a world replete with delicious distractions is a daily challenge.

Candace Liger nearly gave up on poetry.
Although the cadence and rhythm of words has danced through her blood for most of her life, Liger’s affair with poetry has all the signs of a rocky relationship. Poetry has brought her joy, has comforted her in times of need, has disappointed and angered her and, at one point, it betrayed her.

How do you help young artists start careers in Oklahoma? That was a question the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition (OVAC) posed to a group of young artists and volunteers twelve years ago. They came up with Momentum: Art Doesn’t Stand Still–an annual art exhibition created specifically for Oklahoma artists ages 30 and younger, working in different media and living all across the state.