United States Air Force 125th Fighter Squadron out of Tulsa performed flyovers on Thursday in order to support Operation America Strong. Operation America Strong is an initiative put together by the A...

Henryetta Community Skilled Healthcare Rehab residents and staff enjoyed a support parade early Friday afternoon. Family, friends, community members and businesses, area students from Wilson and Henry...

Henryetta Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 539 are seeking help from the community and organizations to place flags at Westlawn and seven other area cemeteries for Memorial Day. “There are around 2...

Henryetta native John Greiner has completed a book about Medal of Honor recipients with ties to Oklahoma. The book, “Oklahoma’s Medal of Honor Recipients: Stories of Outstanding Courage Through the Ye...

A picture is worth a thousand words as 2020 high school graduates across Okmulgee County, the state and nation had their senior year cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Eighteen-year-old Joshua Sa...

Candy Thompson was given her oath of office at the April 6 regular meeting of the Schulter Board of Education. Thompson assumes the role as new school board member for office number two. Minutes of th...

Muscogee (Creek) Nation has made changes to its Food Distribution Program due to the Coronavirus pandemic. All food distribution sites will be accepting new and recertification applications on a first...

Okmulgee County Courthouse will remain closed to the public until at least May 15. That decision was made on Monday morning during the regular meeting of the Okmulgee County commissioners. The public ...

Showing their support of first responders, Henryetta Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) crew members put together and delivered over 70 free meals to Henryetta Police Department, Henryetta Fire Department, ...

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...