Support urged for bond vote, includes upgrades for growing program February is National Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month. CTE is preparing students for careers and college. Okmulgee Public S...

Ron Graham to give presentation in honor of Black History Month The Okmulgee County Genealogical Society will hold its monthly meeting Monday, Feb. 26, at 1 p.m. at the Okmulgee Public Library. In hon...

Community mourns the loss of Dean Craig Ilan Dean Craig, known by many as “Dean,” a longtime member of the Okmulgee Lions Club, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 7. Though not a native of Okmulgee, he calle...

Okmulgee’s Clarence LeBlanc to be honored Saddle up and get ready for an unforgettable night honoring the unsung heroes of the Wild West! The first National Black Cowboy Rodeo Awards Gala is happening...

The Henryetta varsity basketball program earned a home sweep this past Friday with a pair of wins against their arch rivals from Morris. The Lady Knights picked up their fourth win of the season in th...

The varsity basketball programs from Beggs and Preston concluded their regular-season series this past Friday evening at the Beggs Event Center. The Preston squads came away from the county battle wit...

Tigers keep perfect season going with back-to-back blowout wins The Wilson varsity basketball program closed out last weekend with a pair of sweeps. The first sweep came last Thursday at Harrah High S...

The varsity basketball programs from Okmulgee and Henryetta met this past Saturday evening at historic Brock Memorial Gymnasium in Okmulgee. Each county school came away with a win in the county cage ...

The Schulter varsity basketball program earned a split decision in their regular-season home finale Friday against the Maud Tigers and Lady Tigers. The host Lady Bulldogs opened the home finale on the...

Wilson opens at home; Dewar, Schulter start playoffs on road The postseason for varsity basketball teams in Classes A and B will get underway this weekend. Most of the district tournaments in Class A ...

We have two foster families needing to re-home their fosters. Please let us know if you can give a home to Casper, Roxy, Cooper or Rudolph. --- Casper We promise ‘Casper’ is the friendliest little gho...

Green Country Technology Center, a leading institution in career and technical education (CTE), is pleased to announce the outstanding accomplishments of its students during the GoGreen Awards Assembl...

Luv Ford of Henryetta recognized recent Okmulgee County Athletes of the Week from Preston and Morris. Pictured above left are Morris Basketball Girls Basketball Coach Brittni Foster, MHS junior Fire C...

“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up. A...

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you,” wrote Lewis Smedes I’ll never forget the video I saw of a session where a counselor urged a woman to forgive her mother. ...

Okmulgee High School held a ribbon cutting for their new state-of-the-art science labs. Gayla Ledbetter of Okmulgee won first place in the A Non-Irrigated Division of the 2013 National Corn Growers’ A...

DEAR ABBY: I am a mature, divorced woman living with my boyfriend for the past two years. We have a good life in general. We live in a nice home in a great community. My problem is, he isn’t capable o...

Julie’s School of Dance is now teaching classes at Morris First Baptist Church. “We are so fortunate that Rev. Bowen and staff have allowed us to use this fabulous building to educate our dance childr...

Words: the foundation of language, simple letters strung together to form a word. Then words are used to create sentences, then paragraphs, and eventually complete stories shared between human beings....

March 2, 1979 - February 3, 2024 Services are pending with Rogers Funeral Home for Melissa Masters, who passed away February 3, 2024.