What I’m Thankful For
As a lifelong Edmond resident and Managing Editor of Edmond Outlook Magazine, I have many things this year that I am grateful for. Have you made your list?
Read More >H&G: Rugged Design
If you’re trying to brighten up a dull room, consider starting from the ground up by dressing your floor with the perfect area rug. “You can find carpet or paint or stain color to match anything, but not so with things like area rugs or granite,” says Paul Kregger of Kregger’s Floors & More. With…
Read More >Online Exclusive: Diabetes Month
Did you know that 23.6 million children and adults in this country have diabetes… and almost one fourth of them don’t know it? Diabetes affects more than 190,000 Oklahoma adults. So if you are a person living with diabetes, you are not alone. You are also not alone if you have ever had a misstep…
Read More >A&E: Londell McKinney
Arcadia freelance photographer Londell McKinney finds the world a captivating place. Whether the scenes seem as ordinary as a wildflower or as extraordinary as a mountain top, McKinney sees through his camera lens what we often miss as we hurry along life’s hectic pace. Adding to the fascination of his remarkably captured images is the…
Read More >Dining Guide: The Cow Calf-Hay
Family is business and business is family for the four Blevins brothers, who now live together with their families on 14 acres in Edmond after teaming up to create the City Bites chain of restaurants we all know and love. Today, the four entrepreneurs – Brad, Gary, Mike, and Aaron – have City Bites smoothly…
Read More >Full Circle: Growing Up & Giving Back
Born to drug addicted parents and stuck in a cycle of poverty, Edmond resident Amy Newberry was on track to become another heartbreaking statistic. “By the time I was 15, I was on drugs and dropped out of school, hanging with a local gang and pushing grocery carts full time. I just kind of had…
Read More >Anthony Shadid: Oklahoma’s Pulitzer Prize Winner
The American Democracy Project at UCO welcomed Oklahoma City native Anthony Shadid to speak in conjunction with their celebration of Constitution Day recently. The two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author is a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. Shadid covered the War on Terror from Iraq, bringing an eyewitness account of the conflict…
Read More >Thunder on the Mother Road
There’s perhaps no better icon of adventure personified than Route 66. The “Mother Road” carries dense history and suggests boundless freedom, and that’s why it’s fitting for the Seaba Station Motorcycle Museum to stand on this legendary strand of asphalt. The squat, brick building has been many things since it was built in the 1920s,…
Read More >Best of Edmond: Platt College
Derek Nettles graduated from Platt College and went on to become a chef at the Governor’s Mansion. In 2010, Marshall Brock used the training he gained at Platt to land a job as country singer Jason Aldean’s personal chef. He now travels around the country with Aldean on his tour bus. These are only a…
Read More >Best of Edmond: RRS of Oklahoma
Remodeling & Restoration Specialists of Oklahoma can design and build any home improvement you can dream up. They pride themselves on putting together all aspects of your home project from the design phase through project completion. RRS of Oklahoma is a true full service design build firm. RRS of Oklahoma is an organization that focuses…
Read More >LTJ: Thoughts of Thanksgiving
I love family traditions. When I was young my grandparents always spent Thanksgiving with us, traveling two hours from their home. My brother, Jimmy and I would run to meet them as soon as we saw their car pull off the road to our house. Grandmama would be dressed in her Sunday best, including wedge…
Read More >H&F: Lighten Your Holiday Diet
Let’s face it, no matter how much we love the cooler weather and bountiful merriment of the holidays, we all fear that as our hearts expand with holiday cheer, so too, will our waistlines. Being more conscious about our health, doesn’t have to make us less satisfied when it comes to Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts….
Read More >Sports: Slap Shot
“What are we going to do tonight?” Edmond families now have a new answer to this age-old question. The arrival of the Oklahoma City Barons has brought hockey back to the Metro. Mere weeks into the minor professional ice hockey team’s inaugural season, the Barons are gathering fans like an out-of-control snowball because Hockey fans…
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