The Beggs Golden Demon varsity basketball team will compete this coming Tuesday and Wednesday (Dec. 28-29) in a 4-team festival at Noble High School. The Demons, who began their 2021- 2022 season Dece...

The Okmulgee County varsity basketball teams have been going to battle with some tough competition over the past two months. The Schulter Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs kicked off the 2021-2022 high schoo...

Tuesday’s Okmulgee Lions Club program was our annual Lions-Rotary Coleman’s pie bingo meeting, and a good time was had by all because almost everyone won a pie. It doesn’t get much better than that. O...

Oklahoma families looking for a fun activity after the holidays should look no further than the fresh-cut Christmas tree in their living room. The tree came into the home from nature and now, after th...

December Students of the Month were recently honored at the Green Country Technology Center’s Go Green Assembly. Congratulations to the following students: AM BPA - Chyra Hawkins (Preston) Programming...

Congratulations to these Green Country students who have accomplished perfect attendance for the first semester of school. Diamond Been - HCC - Morris Kalin Grogan - HCC - Morris Jonathan Hamilton - C...

Christmas Eve Services Cornerstone Foursquare Church 6:30 p.m. - 617 N. Oklahoma, Okmulgee First Church of the Nazarene 6 p.m. - 711 N. Okmulgee, Okmulgee First Presbyterian Church 5 p.m. - 401 S. Sem...

The start of a new year is the perfect opportunity to kick old habits and create new ones. For those thinking about quitting tobacco, programs like the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline can more than double t...

It is estimated that Christmas is celebrated in some form in approximately 160 different countries, and for many of these, it is a commemoration of the birth of Jesus regardless of other traditions ob...

Hope you’re having a Very Merry Christmas! It’s beautiful to see all of the decorations across town, and I love seeing our community come together. A couple of quick shoutouts - the Young Professional...

Bill was a teacher in Elementary School. He was my friend. He would surely know of someone who fit the criteria of what I had in mind and wanted to do. You see, since my freshman year in college, I ha...

“I mean”, she asked her cousin, “how does this - this Pentecost - which we taste of now, compare with that presence you once knew when carrying within you the One of Promise?” The younger woman stood ...

DEAR ABBY: I’m responding to your request for comments about your answer to “Doggy Business” (Oct. 28). Please IMPLORE your readers not to put their dog’s poop in their neighbor’s garbage cans, even i...

Christmas is Saturday! How crazy is that?! I miss my father and that’s got me feeling nostalgic for all the Christmases growing up. Wednesday this week, I woke too early and made myself some breakfast...