October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a worldwide annual campaign to increase awareness and to promote regular screening and early detection of breast cancer. Other than skin cancer, breast cancer...

OCHS director shares information on agency In Nov. 2015, the Okmulgee County Homeless Shelter found itself with a compound problem and a victim of circumstance. With the resignation of the director ea...

Beggs, Wilson seek to remain perfect in district play in Week 5 The midway point of the 2023 high school football regular-season schedule is taking place this Thursday and Friday all across the state ...

Postseason journeys for four Okmulgee County diamond squads continued on Thursday afternoon. Varsity fastpitch softball teams from Dewar, Preston, and Wilson, as well as the varsity fall baseball team...

Superintendent Tod Williams joined school board members to conduct a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Science/Life Skills Center at Okmulgee High School. OSUIT dedicated the Chesapeake Energy Natur...

I don’t know why an ages-old cheer from the long-ago Morris cheerleaders has anything to do with Tuesday’s Okmulgee Lions Club program, presented by Morris resident Kathi Seamans, but it does. And her...

12:38 p.m. - Behind Johnny Appleseed’s - Outside Rubbish Fire, Other 1:56 p.m. - 1500 Block E 1st St. - Medical Assist, Assist EMS Crew 10:15 p.m. - 400 Block S Porter Ave. - Outside Rubbish Fire, Oth...

CF2023-00153 09/20/2023 State of Oklahoma vs. Kudryavsky, Rebecca Lynn Computer Fraud/Unlawful Use of Computer System --- Misdemeanors CM-2023-00260 09/20/2023 State of Oklahoma vs. Jones, Richard Ald...

7:00 a.m. - 18100 Block Forbes St - Fire - RP advised their neighbors RV was on fire. 9:34 a.m. - 3000 Block Alt U.S.-75 - Domestic - RP advised of a domestic between husband and wife in their front y...

8th & Seminole • Okmulgee www.fumcokmulgee.org Please come join us this Sunday morning! Sunday School for all ages begins at 9:30 a.m. Our combined Traditional/Contemporary Worship Service begins at 1...

DEAR ABBY: I have been married to a man I’ll call “Ed” for 15 years. We are seniors, but he is 17 years older than I am. I have three children from a previous marriage who are grown and on their own. ...

I had a dream. And in this dream I was on fire. I was burning alive. Every part of me was screaming in pain. I was being consumed. I had tried to stop the fire. I had looked for water or a fire exting...

In the 1990’s when I was pastoring in Iola, Kansas, a pastor friend in a neighboring town handed me a cassette tape one day and commented that I might enjoy listening to it. The title was, “The God of...

Fall is officially here and the days will soon be cooling down (not that you can tell it with our temperatures this week). People walking by the windows of our downtown office will go from shorts and ...

Meeting Steve Blahut, allowing him to graciously engage me in dialogue regarding several painful, hidden chapters of my past, became the precursor for major gamechangers in my health. Mental - spiritu...

The story was of a journalist who encountered a young street urchin as he was walking through the city. The young boy was hungry and said so as he asked for help. The journalist was inclined to ignore...

According to a recent poll, 75 percent of Oklahomans are in favor of eliminating the state’s 4.5 percent grocery sales tax. That is more than those favoring cutting the state’s income tax. So as with ...