The Dewar Lady Dragon varsity fastpitch softball team continued their winning ways this past Tuesday with a 14-0 victory over the Keota Lady Lions in Keota. The run-rule win pushed the Lady Dragons’ s...

Tuesday’s Okmulgee Lions Club meeting was the second meeting for Joy McGill, Oklahoma AARP Associate State Director for Community Outreach, a position she will soon be leaving to become the Director f...

Okmulgee Schools Monday: Breakfast: Cereal, Toast, Pineapple Lunch: Traveling Taco, Rice, Salsa, Lettuce, Tomato, Craisins Tuesday: Breakfast: Chicken Waffler, Syrup, Banana Lunch: BBQ Pulled Pork, Ba...

The 2023 Golden Demon baseball team was awarded a Distinguished Academic Achievement plaque after the season. The honor recognizes the top 10 percent grade point averages of high school baseball teams...

Strategies to Ease the Transition As the summer days start to wane, a familiar sense of anticipation and excitement fills the air for many students, teachers, and parents alike. It’s the back-to-schoo...

Welcome to the heart-pounding world of rodeo action at its finest the Roy LeBlanc Okmulgee Invitational Rodeo! As the dust settles and the cheers of the crowd reverberate through the arena, it’s time ...

Bell takes 1st place in Mutton Busting competition In a remarkable display of talent and determination, 6-year-old Brad Bell from Okmulgee Primary School secured a resounding victory in the recent mut...

Felonies CF-2023-00139 08/16/2023 State of Oklahoma vs. Bullard, Paige Marie Possession of Contraband by an Inmate CF-2023-00140 08/16/2023 State of Oklahoma vs. Guitierrez, Richard Anthony Assault & ...

08/01/2023 1:18 a.m. - 1200 Block W 7th - Suspicious Activity - RP advised of three male subjects in a gray pickup looking through windows and possibly attempting to get a female subject to open the f...

08/07/2023 5:20 p.m. - Animals - RP advised a neighbor’s donkey has been at their house since Friday. The neighbor has been notified about the donkey and is not picking it up. 9:41 p.m. - U.S.-75 - Re...

10 Years Ago: Okmulgee County 4-H started a new PetPals Club for youth ages 9-18. The objective of the club was to teach “good citizenship” to pets and enrich the lives of people living in nursing hom...

On August 18-19, Gospel Music legends Bill and Gloria Gaither will present the Oklahoma Homecoming at the Mabee Center in Tulsa. Over the course of two days, more than two dozen Homecoming friends wil...

School is back in session as of this week for area kids. If your kids are like the kids I know, they come home starving. The recipes I share this week can be made over the weekend and prepackaged into...

With our first two children now college age and the years of our youngest seeming to pick up speed, a set of pivotal shifts - threshold moments - came pushing in. Leaving Africa felt surreal. Life as ...

High-speed internet is essential for home, business and agricultural needs, but estimates show that there are more than 298,000 unserved and underserved locations across Oklahoma. The good news is tha...

DEAR ABBY: I have been married to my second wife for 10 years. Most everything is fine, but we have one area of conflict. It is regarding her daughter, my stepdaughter, who has grown from a cute littl...

When we lived in central California, we had a large orange tree in our backyard. This tree produced the best oranges I ever ate. This tree was very prolific, so much so, that we gave grocery bags full...

The beautiful song by George Beverly Shea stirs our minds and hearts: “There’s the wonder of sunset at evening, the wonder of sunrise I see. But the wonder of wonders that thrills my soul is the wonde...

JOSHUA JACKSON REPORTER Here’s a bit of what’s going on in your community, per the most recent city council reports: Community Development • Total Building Permits Issued - 1 • Inspections to date - 2...

Investigation involved FBI, HPD Brayden Zane Graham, age 18, of Tulsa, entered a guilty plea to one count of Using, Carrying, Brandishing and Discharging a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of...