Articles by Thomas Berger
About Thomas Berger
Thomas Berger is the owner of Ciskus Creative, an Edmond-based creative agency focused on creating marketing content for small and medium-sized businesses.
Prior to starting his own company, he worked as the communications/marketing specialist for an Oklahoma City-based office technology company. Former to coming to the Oklahoma City area, he had worked as a career journalist for more than a decade — initially reporting for several newspapers in western North Carolina and northeastern Oklahoma and later as a multimedia journalist for KJRH Channel 2 in Tulsa.
Thomas has lived in Edmond with his wife Alison since 2013. He has a passion for traveling, photography, learning languages, landscaping and coffee roasting. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Western Carolina University.
If good health is true wealth, a small Edmond farm has found the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow —and wants to share it. Tucked back off a gently undulating paved country road, just a half hour drive north of Edmond, lies Indigo Acres, a two-and-a-half-acre family farm recognized locally for…
The sky over Edmond often seems filled with aircraft — giants from nearby Tinker Air Force Base lumbering their way through maneuvers, airliners whirring and purring as they descend to Will Rogers World Airport, small private planes slowly droning from horizon to horizon, and occasionally, a news helicopter thwacking its way through the air. But…
Hammers banging. Welders buzzing. Saws screaming. Engines humming. Mortar slopping. Those are the sights and sounds off Danforth Road, just west of I-35, where Francis Tuttle Technology Center’s new Danforth campus is taking shape. “We are moving along nicely on the construction. So far we are not behind, which is pretty phenomenal for a construction…
A dozen musicians wielding guitars, dulcimers fiddles, and flutes sent cheery Irish notes mingling with the hum of conversation, sparks of laughter, the clinking of glasses, and the creaks from the old wooden floors. The mood glowed as friends seated at tables nearby conversed and shared laughs, pausing occasionally to listen to the music and…
Update from August 26: While available, the application is online here. Small Edmond businesses struggling to survive the COVID-19 pandemic could receive up to $5,000 in assistance, thanks to a new round of microgrants now becoming available. The Edmond Economic Development Authority (EEDA) on Tuesday announced it is now taking applications for the second round…
Location. Location. Location. That’s the age old cliche used by many in real estate. Why? Because a property’s placement, whether commercial or residential, is used as the prime determiner for the value of a property. But location, no matter how great, has little value if it doesn’t have the community and relationships to support it and…
In recent years the “shop local” movement has gained increasing popularity as more people seek to support their communities through buying and using services from local independent businesses instead of large retail stores and franchises.
It’s been said a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths, a statistic. The quote, though of disputed origins and displaying a rather cold view of human life, sheds light on the nature of statistics. People are barraged by statistics every day — facts and figures being used to sell products, to push ideologies,…
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