The effort to bring a monument to honor Okmulgee County veterans has been realized. On Tuesday, installation of the Okmulgee County Veterans Memorial was completed on the northwest corner of the court...

Okmulgee County military veteran, Waco Blakley of Beggs, was recently named a PGA HOPE Ambassador. The announcement came following the completion of a specialized training program during the PGA HOPE ...

A public hearing on a proposed highway project will be held next month. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation The Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT), along with the Federal Highway Admin...

The Okmulgee Times recently held an art contest for Pre-K through 8th grade students, who were asked to create Halloween-themed advertisements for local businesses. We would like to thank all the stud...

The 2021 regular-season schedule is nearing its conclusion and for three Okmulgee County football teams, the last two weeks will be crucial in a different way than for the other three county gridiron ...

The Schulter high school basketball program will kick off their 2021-2022 season Monday, November 1 at home against the Mason Eagles and Lady Eagles. Monday’s season opener will begin with girls actio...

The Okmulgee Junior Bulldogs closed out their regular-season schedule last Saturday at home against the Cushing Tigers. The OJFA program went 2-2 against the visiting Tigers with the fourth-grade rout...

Dewar’s Dr. Ted Lewis Stadium will be the site for this Saturday’s Oklahoma 8-Man Youth Football Championships. Saturday’s action will get underway at 5 p.m. with the Flag Football championship game b...

Here at the Okmulgee Area Development Corp., we try our best to stay on top of the news about the economy, our State and, of course, what’s going on locally. To this end, we spend a lot of time readin...

Hope everyone is enjoying our fall weather - we’ve had some at least so far! With fall comes all the local fall festivities, so today I’m writing about just a few things happening in our community thi...

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been married for 25 years. He has recently started running around with his buddies and partying. He hardly has time for me anymore. I found out he had cheated on me, n...

Love well. I have found I am not really good at it - loving people well ... or God ... or myself. By comparison, in fact, I am really poor at it - loving generously, like him. A discovery of this came...

I was in my first year of college. It was my birthday. My roommate and a couple of his friends decided that my birthday was a good time to follow a tradition of college mates. They swept into the room...

Last weekend’s party was a good one. I have to admit though, I struggled a little - ok, maybe a lot. Not seeing Dad with a beer in his hand and mingling with his ‘brothers’ was hard and several times ...