A sidewalk sale is planned for Saturday in Historic Downtown Okmulgee featuring several businesses. The event is set to kick-off at 10 a.m. with businesses remaining open through 4 p.m. Midge & Millie...

Okmulgee City Council stands together in support of Autism Awareness Month 2022. Mayor Mickey Baldwin read the proclamation outlining the need to increase awareness and respect for this unique communi...

The Henryetta Lady Knight varsity golf team is once again going to be represented at the state golf championships following a runner-up finish Tuesday at the Class 3A regional golf championships at Fo...

The Henryetta Lady Knight slowpitch softball team took some momentum into Wednesday’s Class 4A regional tournament with a pair of double-digit victories earlier this week. The third-ranked Lady Knight...

Historic Harmon Field in Okmulgee will serve as one of the eight sites for this Saturday’s regional track and field championship meets. Harmon Field, which serves as the home field for the Okmulgee Pu...

The Henryetta Golden Knight varsity golf team will have a chance to punch their ticket to the state golf championships this Monday at Fountainhead Golf Course in Checotah. The Knights will battle 11 o...

The varsity baseball teams from Henryetta and Beggs closed out their regular-season schedule Monday with a county showdown at Golden Demon Park in Beggs. The visiting Golden Knights held off a late ra...

The Preston Lady Pirate varsity slowpitch softball team traveled to Tecumseh on Monday to take on the host Tecumseh Lady Savages. Monday’s road trip served as a tune Monday’s road trip served as a tun...

Okmulgee County rivals Morris and Beggs met last Friday evening at Golden Demon Park in Beggs for a doubleheader showdown. The county teams entered the twinbill with third in the District 3A-5 standin...

Twin Hills student athletes qualified to participate in the Oklahoma Rural Elementary Schools State Track meet Saturday, April 23, at North Rock Creek in Shawnee. 8th grader JJ Bonebrake medaled in th...

I like easy meals that are easy cleanup and delicious. Foil packs are one of those things I turn to as a way to customize a meal for the 3 of us and is so easy. Plus, cleanup is a breeze! I pick a mea...

When I was a boy, we didn’t have much extra money. Swinging by a hamburger shop instead of eating vegetable soup at home was a real rarity. I remember our family once passed a home with a sign in the ...

The devil made me do it. Where owning the wrongdoings (and wrong-beings) of my life is concerned, I have to confess that passing the buck is not an option. I cannot assign blame for my waywardness on ...

Do not get too excited, this article is not going to announce a new company coming to the Okmulgee area. What I’m going to tell you about is some of the industries that are currently expanding in our ...

Dear Editor, On March 12, I received a call from the Muskogee Phoenix advising me that the Muskogee VA hospital could be closed. The reporter asked me what I thought about the closing. I told him I wa...

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are expecting our second child. Our first pregnancy ended in miscarriage, so we were overjoyed to find out I was pregnant again, this time with a little girl. We’ve already...

The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, along with other agencies, shut down a marijuana-growing operation in Henryetta Tuesday morning, according to the OBN. Agents and officers from several departments se...

Congratulations to Okmulgee senior Ryley Balius on signing with Cameron University. She will attend on a band scholarship. Seated are Dr. Lew is Kaspar, band director at CU; OHS senior Ryley Balius, D...

For the first time in more than a decade, the Okmulgee FFA chapter has had members compete in several FFA public speaking competitions this spring. They traveled to several contests throughout northea...

Okmulgee FFA member LeAundre Delonia recently earned 4th place in the Animal Systems Division 3 during the Oklahoma FFA State Agriscience Fair in Stillwater, on April 21. This competition was the culm...