The Morris Eagle defense will look to shut down the Henryetta Golden Knights this Friday in Henryetta. Friday’s non-district showdown will be the 20th meeting in the 21st Century between the two Okmul...

This Friday, the Morris Eagles and Henryetta Golden Knights will square off against one another in their annual regular-season high school football game. This year’s county showdown will take place at...

The Okmulgee Lady Bulldog varsity fastpitch softball team suffered a pair of 10-0 shutout losses Tuesday evening at the Okmulgee high school softball field. The doubleheader sweep came at the hands of...

The Henryetta Lady Knight fastpitch softball team hosted former head coach Chris Ray and his Tahlequah Lady Tigers on Tuesday evening. The Lady Knights were unable to earn a win against their former c...

Former Beggs football standout Kendal Daniels finished tied for the team lead in tackles with 11, including 6 solo tackles, and also had an interception for Oklahoma State in the Cowboys’ season opene...

The Wilson Lady Tiger varsity fastpitch softball team ran into a buzzsaw in their home battle Monday evening with the visiting Strother Lady Yellowjackets. The aforementioned buzzsaw came in the form ...

A longtime football game rivalry between county schools will be named in honor of a late coach. Morris and Henryetta are set to play this Friday evening at 7 p.m. and this week, it was announced that ...

Tuesday’s Okmulgee Lions Club program was presented by recently- appointed Okmulgee Fire Chief Dewayne Hurt, a 27-year member of the local fire department, after serving as Interim Fire Chief followin...

Director Tanya N. Garfield of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Disaster Field Operations Center- West announced today that SBA has approved more than $5 million in federal disaster loans for O...

Part 12 Veteran and post member Pete Rogers has been researching the early history of the post and will be providing a brief history over the next few months in advance of the 100 year celebration. Ac...

Okmulgee County Republicans Sept. 13 meeting will feature the Dinesh D’Souza film “2000 Mules.” This meeting is open to the public and begins at 6:30 p.m. The business meeting begins at 6 p.m. for Rep...

Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) congratulates the following area students on being named to the Summer 2022 President’s List amd Dean’s List. The summer terms run from May to August. Presiden...

The 2nd annual Dog Day of Service was held last Saturday. This year’s project was to repaint the ‘paws’ leading from Okmulgee High School to Harmon Field. Community members, Okmulgee FFA, teachers and...

Sometimes it can take a while before we manage to “see the thing behind the thing.” An evening at the rodeo brought it home to me. “What is the greatest commandment,” the man asked Jesus. “The greates...

It was a Sunday morning. I was all dressed and ready to go to church. The rest of the family was not. I went out into the front yard to waste some time till we were ready to leave. I had a half-dollar...

DEAR ABBY: My younger sister, “Fern,” gave birth to a son three months ago. Since she returned to work, it seems like all she does is dump her baby, “Ricky,” on others so she can sleep with her specia...

In Parts 1 and 2, we covered heat stress prevention for dogs and horses - last but not least, let’s look at this topic as it relates to cattle. Simply put, cattle are not designed to be the most effic...

Mental health and suicide are very emotional topics for many to talk about, myself included. All of our lives have been touched in some way by these issues that not so long ago were taboo to talk abou...

Football season is here! I thought this would be the perfect time to make some football foods! BUT then I couldn’t decide which ones I wanted to do so instead of just one column, I am creating a month...