Spaulding
Spaulding, OK · Real Estate
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The City in Oklahoma Where Everyday Life Costs Shockingly Little
This city in the central part of Oklahoma has quietly become a haven for people who want their money to stretch further without sacrificing quality of life. It offers affordable housing, reasonable utility bills, and grocery prices that make you check the receipt for errors. Families buy homes here that...
The Oklahoman
Edmond council poised to OK growing budget, but not without criticism
EDMOND − Sales tax revenue is forecast to be flat again but city spending proposed for the next fiscal year, at $485.3 million, is 17.5% more than the current budget . That's partly because of utility fee hikes , fund balance transfers, grants, loans, and other sources not tied directly to tax receipts. However, Taylor Wilson, a retired CPA who regularly, publicly critiques city government, told the Edmond City Council that growth and hiring in local government need to slow. The proposed budget for 2026-2027, which does anticipate a 4% increase in use taxes − applied to the use, storage, or consumption of items purchased online or out of state − is $72.3 million more than this fiscal year, when a no-growth local economy led the council to pass a no-growth budget. After several workshops and a public hearing on Tuesday, May 26, the council will consider adopting the budget at its June 8 meeting. "We had a lot of citizen input this year, and we appreciate it," said city finance director Kathy Panas. "It's been a lot of change this year, but I think it's all been good and we're going to keep working on it." More: Edmond City
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Rising Rent Costs Strain OSU Students
As rent climbs in Stillwater, OSU students face difficult choices about housing, work and education. When sophomore graphic design major Lily Ferguson saw her lease renewal email this spring, her stomach sank. Her apartment at Prime Place, about a 12-minute walk from Oklahoma State University’s campus, was jumping from $629...
The Oklahoman
3 big development projects offer a look at where Edmond is headed
EDMOND — Edmond was a place before it had a name or was even a town. It was born on the road — a railroad — and traffic has defined it ever after. Not just freight trains headed north and south, and later trucks and cars headed every which way, but traffic patterns, where people come from and where they go. Patterns of life. For trains on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the 1880s, the place was a coal and water stop at Mile Marker 103. Not called Edmond until 1887, named for freight agent Edmond Burdick, the place got its start as a town April 22, 1889, at the opening of the federally held unassigned lands to settlement. Edmond has been settling, putting itself in order, ever since. The Oklahoman looked at three different places, at various stages of development, to get some ideas of where Edmond is going: one that will unfold over decades, one that took years to really take off, and one outlier that is so unusual, its full, eventual impact is anybody's guess: Arcadia Farm: Over decades, the estate of the late natural gas magnate Aubrey McClendon will change Edmond as a