A nursing facility is not a hospital. Many people enter a nursing facility after a hospital stay and tend to think of the nursing facility as an extension of hospital care. However, a nursing facility...

DEARABBY: My ex-husband and I separated two months after our wedding. Our divorce was final five months ago. After I left him, I started talking to a younger guy I had a lot in common with. However, h...

The Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) is pleased to be working this year on a project with Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma that will raise awareness about access to children’s health insuran...

DEAR ABBY: This is in response to “Living a Soap Opera” (Jan. 3), the unhappy woman who is married to an alcoholic. She is flattered by the three younger men she’s conversing with online. My experienc...

March is Sauce Month designed to celebrate all things saucy! In honor of this, I made sauces this week! I actually prefer making my own things as much as possible. It’s so nice to be able to control s...

As Oklahoma’ Attorney General, I have made it a top priority to aggressively enforce the Open Records and Open Meetings Acts across State government. That is why I am excited to highlight the importan...

DEAR ABBY: While shopping at the mall, I have seen too many stressed-out parents ignore or yell at their children. It certainly isn’t helpful. It isn’t how I was raised or how I raised mine. Years ago...

Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardship as a pathway to peace. The Prayer of Serenity phrase speaks to the resilient nature of life with God, as well as life with o...

For vacation one year, we went to Big Sur State Park in California. It is a beautiful, rugged mountain park. It was so popular, even when I was a boy, that we had to rent a space outside the park our ...

Caring for the planet belongs to all of us Do you love this great, big, beautiful planet and worry about protecting it? Do you look for ways you can contribute and make a difference to save and protec...

This week is designated the “Spring Break” week for lawmakers as they will be working a lighter-than-normal schedule, allowing lawmakers with children to enjoy family time after a month of policymakin...

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend and I have been together six years. We are both divorced. We plan on being married in six months. He’s a perfect partner except for one thing. Every holiday, he jumps out of be...

The Okmulgee County Humane Society has seen an increase in owner surrenders. Frankly, we didn’t understand the influx. While we were asking, “What’s with all of these owner surrenders,” many of our Fa...

I bring my lunch to work most every day. Sometimes, I am able to bring leftovers from the night before, but there is not always enough left for that or it’s something that doesn’t work well for bringi...

I bring my lunch to work most every day. Sometimes, I am able to bring leftovers from the night before, but there is not always enough left for that or it’s something that doesn’t work well for bringi...

DEAR ABBY: I found out today that my wife was sexting with a man in another state. His girlfriend sent me a message, which included a series of screenshots. I had confronted my wife regarding this pri...

Jesus comes to know us through closeness. It’s something akin to what we witness in those wonderfully enduring marriage relationships. The kind that are the envy of the world. An aged couple, having g...

Dale James, Sheriff of Okmulgee County, reported vandalism to some rural mailboxes. Sheriff James stated this is a federal offense as, technically, all mailboxes, both rural and in town, are property ...

I was the last of five children born in our family. The first child was stillborn, so we thought of ourselves as a foursome. We were kind of strung out in our ages. Therefore, I came along when Mom an...

Did you know, beyond the four kennels we operate in the Okmulgee County Animal Shelter, we also have 25 animals in foster homes and nine more in boarding? • Problem: Many of our foster families are fu...