DEAR ABBY: My fiance, “Peter,” has a number of female friends I’m not comfortable with, primarily because they are women he “had” interest in before we started dating. He says he has told them he’s ta...

Make no mistake. The character-formed life does not spring up by accident, nor by a stroke of luck, nor as a surprise coincidence. There is training. Think of some particular person you have long admi...

January is a time when many people make resolutions for the new year. I may be a little late with this column, but I thought I would tackle one that is fairly common. Making the new year for a new hea...

“Satan knew Eve would fall for it,” says Amanda, age 9. Nice pun, Amanda. “Because Eve was eating when Satan tempted her,” says Griffin, 8. This is the maitre d’ theory of the fall. Perhaps Satan work...

The Oklahoma Tax Commission recently released city sales tax collection figures that primarily represents local tax receipts from November business. The monies they reported this period represent sale...

The deadline to request absentee ballots by mail is approaching. Applications must be received by the County Election Board no later than 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 24. Okmulgee County Election Board Secreta...

Good morning, Okmulgee. We would like to bring your attention to several things this morning. Due to the rising number of Covid cases, we are once again closing our office to the public. Adoptions and...

As Okmulgee continues to see growth, especially in the downtown area, more and more in the community are finding ways to give back to their community and be part of the excitement. That is especially ...

Oklahoma Human Services (OKDHS) announced last week a series of Child Welfare Services (CWS) recruitment and retention incentives intended to bolster hiring of positions that are critical to ensuring ...

Members of Okmulgee County Farm Bureau participated in the largest annual gathering of Farm Bureau members at the 2022 American Farm Bureau annual meeting in Atlanta, Jan. 7-11. The five delegates fro...

Firefighters battled a fire at a former hotel in Okmulgee on Monday morning. The department was called out to the scene of the blaze at Comanche near 6th Street to the old Hotel Sparks around 11 a.m. ...

The Okmulgee County Board of Commissioners is considering bringing hot water to all restroom facilities within the courthouse. It has been a number of years since the restrooms had hot water, accordin...

The City of Okmulgee will soon begin serving outstanding municipal arrest warrants. According to Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice, city staff have identified hundreds of outstanding warrants that re...

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol, along with area law enforcement, is in the middle of a statewide campaign to combat distracted driving. The campaign will continue through Jan. 31, with more than 30 law e...

Though the Jan. 2022 jury term at the Okmulgee County Courthouse had to be cancelled due to pandemic-related issues, that does not mean the wheels of justice have stopped turning. A total of nine crim...

After a one-year hiatus, the annual Muscogee Nation Okmulgee County Basketball Tournament will make its return this week. The annual tournament was canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ...