Aug. 9 6:50 p.m. – Southbound Hwy 75 from Hwy 16. Reckless Driver- White Impala with no tag info driving reckless. Transferred to OHP and advised county deputies. 8:42 p.m. – Hwy. 16/N. 230 Road. Anim...

At the request of Emergency Management Director Tim Craighton, Okmulgee County Commissioners extended the county Burn Ban one more week during Monday’s board meeting. Continued decisions on a ban will...

The 6th Annual Butch Sullivan Love Wins Horseshoe Tournament will be held on Sunday, Sept. 4 at Endtime Revival Church located six miles south of Henryetta on 10th Street. Registration will be open fr...

Over Labor Day weekend, the annual Jack Clifford Memorial Labor Day Gospel Singing will be held on Saturday, Sept. 3 starting at 6 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Henryetta. Five featured performances...

Henryetta High School’s H-Town Theatre Department recently held open auditions for upcoming presentations of Addams Family in the high school auditorium. A list of cast members has been chosen for the...

EDITOR Unofficial results of the Aug. 23 Primary Runoff Election were announced by the Oklahoma State Election Board. County and state totals are listed below, by office. State Treasurer Todd Russ rec...

Linda Gerster and Shannon Frair with the Henryetta Labor Day Committee were guest speakers during an informal meeting of the Henryetta Chamber of Commerce at Shoney’s Restaurant on Monday. “We had the...

American Exchange Bank (AEB) Chief Executive Officer and former President, Terri Thompson will retire on Aug. 31 with over 44 years of service to the bank and the community. Her career at AEB began in...

Troy Aikman’s Highway to Henryetta, presented by AT&T, raised $175,000 in net proceeds that will benefit youth educational and athletic initiatives in Henryetta. Approximately 10,000 fans flocked to t...

EDITOR Henryetta Feed the Vet program distribution will be held Friday, Sept. 9 at New Life Assembly of God Church on New Lake Road. Volunteers are needed to put together and distribute food boxes to ...

EDITOR Henryetta Labor Day Committee hosted the annual Labor Day pageants on Saturday in the Alice Ghostley Auditorium at Henryetta High School. Results of the Labor Day Baby Pageant are as follows: •...

Henryetta Free-Lance’s BINGO game has now concluded with the “H” and Blackout Bingos being claimed at the end of last week. Amy Jones was the winner with the “H” Bingo and Yvonna Coulter claimed the B...

Henryetta Daily Free-Lance – 1922 (George Riley Hall, Editor & Publisher) Aug. 21, 1922 WHERE ARE WE AT? This memorable query of Jerry Simpson, the “sockless statesman” of Kansas in a day gone by, mus...

Yvonna Coulter, above, of Henryetta was the first to claim the letter “F” Bingo at the Free-Lance office on Wednesday. Blackout Bingo still remains to be claimed as of press time.

FREE-LANCE EDITOR Two days remain for Okmulgee County voters to cast early ballots for the Aug. 23 Runoff Primary Election. Early voting will continue today, Friday, Aug. 19 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and ...

EDITOR Henryetta City Council approved awarding a bid for demolition of nine properties to American Demolition during their regular meeting on Tuesday evening. American Demolition was the lowest of tw...

  Two new staff members were hired and one resignation was approved by the Wilson Board of Education during their Aug. 2 regular meeting. Melissa Brown and Misty Robison were hired as cafeteria worker...

Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) began conversion of streetlights within Henryetta on Monday. New LED technology replaces the old amber lighting that will provide brighter roadways, street cor...

A plan to install new heating and cooling systems at the Okmulgee County Courthouse was discussed during Monday’s commissioner meeting. Jason Davey of the Trane Corporation spoke to the board members....

The potency of a gun, even in the hands of a “kid” is something wonderful, as was evidenced last night in a number of cases of hi-jacking in the city in which the offenders were two boys, giving their...