• Installation Restoration Program inspects, cleans Vance

    In a continuing effort to locate and clean up any contamination sites at Vance Air Force Base, a remedial action project for the Industrial Zone will begin Feb 23. The project is expected to last two months and will involve three separate actions. First, an extraction system to pump out gasoline

  • Young Vance residents accepted to AF Academy

    Two Vance teenagers were recently accepted to attend the US Air Force Academy in Colorado. Joshua Ellis and Kallyn Johnson, Enid High School seniors and Vance residents, were notified in late November and December of their selections to the Air Force college. According to the Academy's Website, it

  • Father speaks at graduation

    Twenty-four officers will earn their pilot's wings at the Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 04-04 graduation at 10 a.m. today in the auditorium. The graduates spent 54 weeks studying flying fundamentals, checklist usage, emergency procedures, aviation physiology, applied

  • Youth compete in center's art contest

    Nine-year-old Danielle Wallace loves competition, which is why she entered more than one project in Vance Youth Center's fine arts contest this week. "I like to be in competitions," Danielle said. Monday, she put the finishing touches on her clay "Exploring" scene, complete with a canoe, volcano and

  • Housing contract awarded, starting date to come

    Vance Air Force Base has moved one step closer to fulfilling its pledge for new family housing. The Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence awarded a task order to Hunt Building Company, Ltd, to complete the first of three phases of Vance's family housing project, said Lt Col Robert Mitchell,