Lone losses at 3-day event come against Checotah The varsity fastpitch softball teams from Okmulgee and Preston finished with a combined 5-2 record at last weekend’s Okmulgee Softball Festival. The tw...

The Preston Pirate varsity fall baseball team improved to 9-0 on the season with a pair of run-rule wins last weekend. The Pirates notched a 16-4 home win over the Cameron Yellowjackets last Thursday,...

Lady Dragons, Lady Tigers finish unbeaten at Wilson Softball Festival Okmulgee County fastpitch softball teams Dewar and Wilson came away with perfect 4-0 records at last week’s Wilson Softball Festiv...

The Morris Lady Eagle varsity fastpitch softball team took home the team championship trophy from the Oilton Tournament this past Saturday with an 11-1 victory over the Depew Lady Hornets. The 3-game ...

John McConnel upgraded the Orpheum as the 93rd anniversary approached. He added a new digital projector, 3-D system, new sound system and new screen to the theatre. Miss Oklahoma’s Outstanding Teen Mi...

Recently, another Okmulgee County family came forward to share a summer trip they took together. The Lee Anderson family just returned from an 8-hour drive, 442 mile trip to Galveston Island in Texas....

Editor’s Note: The following information was released in Oct. 2022 showing the funding and road projects that are planned for Okmulgee County. - In Oct. 2022, the Oklahoma Department of Transportation...

Can gene splicing and selective breeding help deal with heat stress in cattle? Sometimes you see a headline and just go “huh.” That happened to me today when I can across an article talking about bree...

DEAR ABBY: My husband, “Randall,” was a widower when we met. His wife, “Sylvia,” had passed away in November 2010. We got married in October 2015. I recently was shocked to discover that Randall has k...

Part 1 of 3 With the recent release of the movie The Sound of Freedom, the conversation on the horror of human trafficking is growing. The movie, a dramatization, details one individual story, but doe...

“So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean ... ‘Therefore the...

So many of us can all too easily relate perhaps with the woman in today’s Gospel. She comes to Jesus, pleading - begging, for help for her daughter. To be sure, we encounter several people like this a...

“They didn’t have air conditioning, carpet or nothing,” says Dylan, age 5. Actually, it was “the way the seats were lined up,” says Milese, 6. No, that wasn’t it at all: “because there were no chairs ...

Rojer Washee Johnson, Sr., also known as ‘Bear,’ passed away on August 20, 2023, at the age of 57 in Okmulgee. Rojer was born on November 10, 1965, in Bowling Green, Ky. to Martha (Washee) Johnson and...

BEGGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS Beggs Public Schools introduces the new staff hired for the 2023-24 school year. --- Beggs High School Coach James Youngblood joins the staff at Beggs High School this year as Hea...

The agricultural education department at Beggs Public Schools recently received grants from the state Career and Technology Education technology grant program. Instructor Caitlin Dreher received a gra...

The Okmulgee Farmers Market is held each Friday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in front of the Creek Council House in downtown Okmulgee. August 26 A Night with Winnie | Okmulgee Community Theatre presents ‘A N...

Registration is now open for Iron Girls! Join the Okmulgee County Family YMCA Tuesdays and Saturdays at 8 a.m. for this 55-minute class designed for women who are ready to break out of their comfort z...

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Zion Alexander Canard, age 24, of Henryetta, was found guilty of one count of Child Abuse in Indian Country foll...

To continue the bank’s reputation of high-quality customer service and excellent financial solutions, Mabrey Bank announced this week the promotion of Mark Mabrey to East Central Oklahoma Regional Pre...