The Oklahoma Tax Commission recently released city sales tax collection figures that primarily represents local tax receipts from October business. The monies they reported this period represent sales...

Ongoing Events B.A.L.L. Group | The Be Actice Live Longer (B.A.L.L.) Group will not meet in December. Meetings and potlucks will resume Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, at 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church. Christ...

The Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) is now accepting applications for new grant opportunities. Eligible proposals will fall into one of two tracks: projects that improve the built environmen...

Okmulgee Young Professionals hosted a Christmas dinner Wednesday evening for those in need of a warm meal. According to OYP President Lane Pilkington, member Seth Walker came up with the idea to serve...

The Okmulgee City Council approved several agreements, including an amended ordinance pertaining to fees for impounded animals. The fees for impoundment has not changed since 2006. The amended ordinan...

The Okmulgee Municipal Authority (Authority) and Okmulgee County Rural Water District No. 4 (District) were both approved this week for funding to improve water infrastructure. The city was approval f...

With the conclusion of the 2021 high school football season, several members of the Okmulgee County gridiron squads were awarded All-District honors recently. Two county football players received spec...

The Beggs Golden Demon varsity basketball team will compete this coming Tuesday and Wednesday (Dec. 28-29) in a 4-team festival at Noble High School. The Demons, who began their 2021- 2022 season Dece...

The Okmulgee County varsity basketball teams have been going to battle with some tough competition over the past two months. The Schulter Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs kicked off the 2021-2022 high schoo...

Tuesday’s Okmulgee Lions Club program was our annual Lions-Rotary Coleman’s pie bingo meeting, and a good time was had by all because almost everyone won a pie. It doesn’t get much better than that. O...

Oklahoma families looking for a fun activity after the holidays should look no further than the fresh-cut Christmas tree in their living room. The tree came into the home from nature and now, after th...

December Students of the Month were recently honored at the Green Country Technology Center’s Go Green Assembly. Congratulations to the following students: AM BPA - Chyra Hawkins (Preston) Programming...

Congratulations to these Green Country students who have accomplished perfect attendance for the first semester of school. Diamond Been - HCC - Morris Kalin Grogan - HCC - Morris Jonathan Hamilton - C...

Christmas Eve Services Cornerstone Foursquare Church 6:30 p.m. - 617 N. Oklahoma, Okmulgee First Church of the Nazarene 6 p.m. - 711 N. Okmulgee, Okmulgee First Presbyterian Church 5 p.m. - 401 S. Sem...

The start of a new year is the perfect opportunity to kick old habits and create new ones. For those thinking about quitting tobacco, programs like the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline can more than double t...

It is estimated that Christmas is celebrated in some form in approximately 160 different countries, and for many of these, it is a commemoration of the birth of Jesus regardless of other traditions ob...

Hope you’re having a Very Merry Christmas! It’s beautiful to see all of the decorations across town, and I love seeing our community come together. A couple of quick shoutouts - the Young Professional...

Bill was a teacher in Elementary School. He was my friend. He would surely know of someone who fit the criteria of what I had in mind and wanted to do. You see, since my freshman year in college, I ha...

“I mean”, she asked her cousin, “how does this - this Pentecost - which we taste of now, compare with that presence you once knew when carrying within you the One of Promise?” The younger woman stood ...

DEAR ABBY: I’m responding to your request for comments about your answer to “Doggy Business” (Oct. 28). Please IMPLORE your readers not to put their dog’s poop in their neighbor’s garbage cans, even i...