DEARABBY: I have been involved with a married man for the last five years. He lied to me about his status. He told me that a woman he’d had a 15-year relationship with had left him. I recently learned...

Sam was a good dog. My Dad’s boss gave him to us. My Dad did extra work in construction on weekends. For some reason, Dad’s boss couldn’t keep Sam, so we inherited him. Sam was a black cocker spaniel,...

Okmulgee High School held a ribbon cutting for their new state-of-the-art science labs. Gayla Ledbetter of Okmulgee won first place in the A Non-Irrigated Division of the 2013 National Corn Growers’ A...

DEAR ABBY: I am a mature, divorced woman living with my boyfriend for the past two years. We have a good life in general. We live in a nice home in a great community. My problem is, he isn’t capable o...

Julie’s School of Dance is now teaching classes at Morris First Baptist Church. “We are so fortunate that Rev. Bowen and staff have allowed us to use this fabulous building to educate our dance childr...

Words: the foundation of language, simple letters strung together to form a word. Then words are used to create sentences, then paragraphs, and eventually complete stories shared between human beings....

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, I decided to go with smaller meals this week. I often get requests for something that’s not designed to feed four people anyway. You could easily use thes...

Cameron University has announced the President’s and Dean’s honor lists for the fall 2023 semester. To make the President’s Honor Roll, undergraduate students must be enrolled full-time (carrying at l...

Have you ever felt put upon? You know, that feeling of someone taking advantage of you? I looked up the meaning of “put upon” just to be sure I was thinking of and using the phrase properly. Cambridge...

Preston senior Danielle Hawkins and Henryetta senior Chet Caywood captured the 3-point championships at the 2014 Muscogee (Creek) Nation Okmulgee County Basketball Tournament. The Okmulgee Band Booste...

DEARABBY: After 17 years of marriage, I learned, to my dismay, that when he was 22, my husband had a long-term relationship with a 16-year-old. He insisted that she had lied about her age and told him...

“Hi Jerry! I’m Yuli!” The cheery voice streaming from the phone line of what sounded like a young Far Easterner seemed to pulse with excited urgency. “I’ve just recently come to Tulsa from California ...

With cat season just around the corner, we would like to address a few issues regarding stray cats. OCHS receives many calls, messages and complaints about stray cats. We do have a small TNR program. ...

With the convening of a special session by Governor Stitt, lawmakers were brought back to the State Capitol on Monday, January 29, a week prior to the start of the Second Session of the 59th Oklahoma ...

DEAR ABBY: My very dear friend has discovered that her live-in boyfriend of two years has been hiding $55,000 in credit card debt. This man contributes very little to the household expenses (she owns ...

As I was thinking back over my school years, I realized that I don’t have much memory of some of those years. The memories that I do have are not always pleasant ones. I also realized that I don’t hav...

“The two of us were hippies back in the 1960’s - but not so much of the drug and partying kind, although we certainly got into that as well...” My new acquaintance Jim was - between his sips of hot te...

The reason is as clear as water As winter makes its presence known - and briskly so - it’s important for horse owners to consider that with lower temperatures comes higher colic risk. “Winter months a...

DEAR ABBY: I am an unhappily married woman with young children. I am attracted to a friend of mine and my husband’s, but he is also married. He’s a bit older, and I can’t tell for sure if he has feeli...

Hello, I’m Babs Martin, Director of the Okmulgee County Humane Society, and I’d like to hear from you. We are trying something new with an Ask Babs article. We would like to know what you would like t...