LARRY OWEN SPORTS EDITOR Five Okmulgee County high school football teams will begin 2022 this Friday evening. The Okmulgee Bulldogs will enter Week 1 seeking their second win of the season in their ho...

Sometimes it takes the patience of Job, and the funding of a Bill Gates (well, almost nearly but not hardly quite) to get that dream job a lot of us aspire for but very few attain. Such was the case f...

Okmulgee Schools All breakfast served with juice. Choice of 1% or Fat Free Milk offered each day at breakfast and lunch. For high school, juice, fruit and salad bar is also offered daily for lunch. • ...

Part 11 Veteran and post member Pete Rogers has been researching the early history of the post and will be providing a brief history over the next few months in advance of the 100 year celebration. Ac...

The Okmulgee Young Professionals held a successful Roll-Off Day last Saturday, helping to beautify Okmulgee. The group gave a huge “thank you” to everyone who stopped by to participate in the event. T...

RANDY ZINN PASTOR, RUSSELL MISSIONARY BAPTIST “Sticks and stones may break my bones” (remember this one?), but words have the potential to pierce to the very depths of the heart and soul. Speech is a ...

Anchor of Hope Women’s Conference will be held Sept. 9-10, at Jubilee Christian Center. The theme of this year’s event is “Release, Restore, Rejoice.” This annual conference brings together women from...

Trinity Lutheran Church This Sunday, Sept. 4, is the 12th Sunday after Trinity. The readings are from Isaiah 29:17-24, Romans 10:9-17 and Mark 7:31-37. Faith Comes from Hearing A man who was deaf and ...

September 1-2 A benefit yard sale will be held Thursday and Friday, Sept. 1-2, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1407 N. Alabama Ave. featuring Indian Tacos and a dessert for $8 and meat pies for $5. Contact T...

The Okmulgee Community Playhouse’s next presentation is “Let’s Dance.” It will be held Sept. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Orpheum Theatre. Cassandra Northington of the OCP invites the public to come and see th...

All Okmulgee City Hall offices and Public Works operations will be closed Monday, Sept. 5, in observance of Labor Day. Emergency service operations, police and fire departments will remain operational...

The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE) Chapter 0730 meeting is Thursday, Sept. 8, at 11 a.m. in the Shoney’s Restaurant, 619 E. Main St. (across the street from the Walm...

When the people join forces, the community wins. Every. Single. Time. Community or common unity is a type of “shelter” too. With community comes resources and resources are the literal life blood of a...

DEAR ABBY: I recently met the love of my life, and I’m planning to leave my life and family in Arkansas and move to California to marry him. He’s recently divorced after a 25-year marriage. My problem...

Wednesday, August 31, is National Overdose Awareness Day, and I want to take this time to discuss the recent surge of fentanyl analogues and the danger they pose to our communities. Fentanyl is a cont...

Our house was on a dirt road five miles out of town. Our closest neighbor lived a quarter of a mile away. The next closest was one mile. The schools were five or more miles away, depending on which on...

“Me, I am definitely a morning person!” My new friend spoke the words with such force my curiosity got stirred. An international student, he had been in my country only a short while. The two of us ha...

Football officially kicks off for all local schools this week so I thought this would be the perfect time to make some football foods! BUT then I couldn’t decide which ones I wanted to do so instead o...

Preston Schools announced its policy for free or reduced-price meals for children served under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), the School Breakfast Program (SBP), and the After-School Snack ...

8:51 p.m. 800 block S Rogers. Violation of PORP advised her ex was served his protective order last night and has now sent his mother to get some property. They have refused to give her property back ...