Wilson Board of Education hired Casandra Blair and Theresa Long for the 2020-2021 school year during their regular monthly meeting on April 9. Contracts were signed with Blair as speech pathologist an...

Dewar High School (DHS) officials announced on Tuesday, a 2020 Virtual Graduation will be held on Facebook live on May 14 at 6 p.m. on the Dewar High School virtual graduation page. After the graduati...

Henryetta Lions Club President Colleen Fowler announced Tuesday that plans are being worked out for a faceto-face Lions Club meeting next week. “Social distancing guidelines will be followed,” Fowler ...

As May nears, only 43.2% of Okmulgee County households have responded to the 2020 U.S. Census, ranking 26 out of 77 counties. Responses are extremely important as they help determine how billions of d...

Henryetta Free-Lance and Okmulgee TIMES staff announce a special publication inside today’s editions, The Quarantine Activity Book. The book has a variety of puzzles including word search, Sudoku, cro...

Filing deadline for the Henryetta Elementary School (HES) Parent Teacher Organization’s Officer Elections is this Friday, May 1. Anyone interested in the positions of president, vice president or secr...

During student content pickup on Friday at Henryetta Early Childhood Center (HECC), teachers (left to right) Patty Shaddix, Michelle Girty, Roberta Hamric, Verna Kissee, Pam Palmer and Danelle Ferquer...

In celebration of Law Day, Oklahoma lawyers will provide free legal advice Thursday, April 30 until Monday, May 4 via email. Oklahomans can send their legal questions to AskALawyer@okbar.org. Ask A La...

As descendants of the Kiowa, members of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma trace their roots back to the 16th century when they inhabited the Great Plains. Until the 1700s, the Apache lived as a nomadic gro...

A woman is facing several complaints after a trooper stopped to investigate a vehicle which was pulled over on the side of the highway. According to the court record, on April 18 at approximately 1:17...

It wasn’t the number of patients that worried Dr. Mark Doescher the most as he made his rounds through the University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City last week. The hospital was emptier th...

Henryetta Middle School (HMS) faculty announced a schedule for locker content retrieval for 6th through 8th grade students. Pick-up days and times for locker contents are April 28, April 30, May 5 and...

Officers were dispatched to Hillcrest Hospital in Henryetta after reports came in of a doctor who was assaulted by a possible patient. Court documents state on April 17 at approximately 4:56 p.m., a d...

A Wetumka man is in jail following his arrest for burglary of a Henryetta business. Henryetta Police Henryetta Police Department (HPD) officers arrested 21-year-old Zachary Austin Berry for his role i...

Property owners at 320 West Main Street in Henryetta have been busy the past few weeks with building upgrades to house their new business, Henryetta Nutrition. Co-owners Kelli Ogle and Hayley Thomason...

Henryetta Chamber of Commerce combined efforts with Representative Logan Phillips to host a combined virtual legislative forum with the Okmulgee Chamber of Commerce on May 1 at 9 a.m. The meeting will...

Henryetta City Council approved the resignation of Gary Clason during their Tuesday evening regular monthly meeting. Clason was elected to the councilman-at-large ward last year by Henryetta voters. M...

Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology (OSUIT) in Okmulgee announced two new financial incentives for returning students designed exclusively to help offset the economic and educational imp...

Area students were recently asked by Free-Lance staff how they feel about being quarantined and not able to attend public school. The majority of them really miss being around and playing with their f...

If you have braved travel to any local stores during the last month, you would notice that toilet paper and hand sanitizer have been pretty thin on the ground, if not missing entirely. Since the pande...