Main Spotlight: Connecting, Innovating, and Sustaining a Healthy Main Street Movement
Key takeaways from six sessions at the 2025 Main Street Now Conference.
Photo credit: Karen Dye
Newkirk, a small rural community in northern Oklahoma, joined the Oklahoma Main Street program back in 1992. Karen Dye, Newkirk Main Street's program manager, was inspired to “make downtown more fun and festive” with painted water meter covers after learning about the practice at a recent Main Street Now conference. Pictured above are design committee members Amy Lusk and Carolyn Kahle. Learn more about Newkirk.
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