OHS Cultural Heritage Club held their annual Talent Show in the high school auditorium, featuring several performances from students and community members. Okmulgee Masonic Lodge #199 held a bean dinn...

Memories of early childhood are at best scattered, brief, and in some ways, unreliable. Sometimes when I am remembering certain happenings, I wonder if they are actual, real events, or remembrances of...

Puzzling or Amusing. Which is it? Both, perhaps? Cross-cultural workers meet up with the quandary often, leaving one off balance enough to keep the journey intriguing. The slight-of-body PhD scholar s...

DEAR ABBY: I recently married and was excited to be part of my husband’s family. My own siblings and I are not particularly close. During COVID, one of my husband’s sisters started a family text chain...

Okmulgee native and retired Master Sgt. 1st Class Melvin Morris received the Medal of Honor during a ceremony at the White House. OSUIT received an award as a Certified Healthy Campus and Business. --...

On February 7, children in an Oklahoma school got into an altercation which became violent. The day after, one of the children, 16-year-old Nex Benedict, died. The initial result of a preliminary auto...

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been together almost 20 years. I used to be happy in our relationship, but over the last year or two, he has changed. He gives me no physical affection and constantly ...

I sat down the other evening with a good friend and got lost in my feelings for a bit. It was unintentional but it was so close to my husband’s death anniversary I guess I should have expected it. The...

“There! That should do it.” Sigh. Word-smithing a half-decent mission statement can be a daunting venture. While, in our case it surely was, we felt gratified in the outcome. The Lord’s fingerprint se...

DEAR ABBY: I have one sister I love. Our parents passed away 12 years ago. We don’t have a good relationship, although I try. Recently, we have been texting again. Her son is being married in a few mo...

After I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior, I wanted to be honest about it. I didn’t want to be one of those who say they are a Christian and then act or live in ways that make people doubt that. I wa...

DEAR ABBY: For nearly three years, I have been seeing a man who later asked me to move in with him. He abruptly stopped emailing me four months ago. I waited several weeks and then emailed him, tellin...

Last week, I toured Mabel Bassett Correctional Facility led by my former legislative colleague Kris Steele, now the director of The Education and Employment Ministry (TEEM) in Oklahoma City. TEEM is a...

DEAR ABBY: I’ve always been close to my children, but now that they are adults, it seems I’m losing my connection with one of them. He married a girl of a different race, and while that doesn’t bother...

I once heard the story of how the great preacher and author Charles Swindoll once showed up to one of his church’s board meetings looking all disheveled and downtrodden. As his church leaders looked a...

Resident shares thoughts on trash left at lake area Dear Editor, To all the folks that love and enjoy the lake and want to keep it beautiful - greetings. I live out here by the water on some land my G...

DEAR ABBY: Our wonderful daughter has her doctorate. She’s a hardworking professor, a job she loves. Her husband, “Phil,” has three master’s degrees and also his doctorate. In their 20 years of marria...

Over the past week, Oklahoma lost two individuals who did much for our state’s children in their own ways. Most people are aware of the passing of Toby Keith, the Oklahoma country music performer with...

The Okmulgee Country Club & Golf Course held a karaoke contest every Friday during the month of February. OSUIT Chef Aaron Ware was the recipient of the 2013 Roueche Excellence Award. Ware was the onl...

Who comes up with street names beginning with the letter ‘X’? Turning onto Xanthus Ave. that Thursday evening, I glanced at my watch. “How will this go? Who will show up? Will I be on my game ... what...