Demolition of the first hotel site for QuikTrip (QT) in Henryetta was completed on Monday. Many residents have anxiously awaited seeing the project take shape – and actually begin. Several holdups wit...

First National Bank & Trust Co. (FNB) recently appointed Tyson Christy, DDS and John Neal Jr. to the bank’s Board of Directors. During the August board meeting, Christy was appointed. Operating a fami...

Henryetta Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 539 Commander Bill Goodner repaired flag poles along main street that were damaged due to straight-line winds with gusts from 60- to 80-miles-per-hour ove...

The Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) exists to help improve conditions for children and to promote their wellbeing. It is a broad mission, which means we are active on many fronts: educati...

Wanenmacher’s Tulsa Arms Show will open the doors at Expo Square (Tulsa Fairgrounds) to the public on Saturday, Nov. 9 and Sunday, Nov. 10. From a modest starting 1955, the show has grown to almost si...

Multi-grammy nominated recording artist, The Martins, will be featured at the Crystal Theatre in Okemah on Friday, Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. A popular multi-Dove Award winning Christian recording artist, The ...

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

Schulter Board of Education approved a Title I Plan and Parent Involvement Policy for the 2019-2020 school year at their regular meeting on Oct. 7. Minutes of the Sept. 9 meeting were reviewed and acc...

Okmulgee County Commissioners covered a brief agenda during their regular weekly meeting Monday. Items approved were: • Officers Report - For the month of August, Sheriff’s Office revolving accounts i...

Deep Fork Community Action Foundation, Inc. (DFCAF) will hold an election for a Low-Income Representative for Okmulgee County on Wednesday, Nov. 6 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Okmulgee Public Library...

Two Okmulgee County men were uninjured in a traffic accident that occurred on Oct. 21 at 8:02 a.m. on Hwy. 10, one mile west of Grove in Delaware County, Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) Trooper Micah St...

Dewar Indian Community Center will host a 2nd Annual Haunted House Tuesday, Oct. 29 through Thursday, Oct. 31 at dark each night. There will be games, a costume contest, cake decorating contest, chili...

Henryetta Quarterback Club and Rustler’s BBQ will host an H-Town Proud Cornhole Tournament Fundraiser on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 3 p.m. The tournament will be held at Rustler’s located at 806 Industry Road...

During a Henryetta Board of Education Special Meeting on Tuesday morning, Sherry Eldridge was hired as a fourth grade teacher for the remainder of 2019-2020. Board members approved a consulting contra...

Henryetta Elementary School’s annual Halloween Monster Mash Bash for three-year-old through fifth grade classes will be held on Thursday, Oct. 31. Event times, by class are as follows: • Three-year-ol...

American Exchange Bank (AEB) of Henryetta branch employees wore pink and served pink punch and cookies on Friday in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. All during the month of October, businesse...

An Okmulgee man has entered a guilty plea to Child Sexual Abuse in federal court. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced last week that Carl Ray Smith, 52, ...

An annual increase in postage classes heavily used by newspapers has been revealed by the US Postal Service and National Newspaper Association (NNA) was pleased that they are relatively moderate, in l...

A Holdenville resident won’t have to worry about laying out a feast for Thanksgiving. All he needs is a turkey to put beside his 25-plus pound sweet potato. Fred Millard, Jr. has been featured by Nati...

Leonard Coote “saw” an image of a cross, possibly a vision. Affixed to the cross with iron nails hung a bleeding man. “I seemed to understand this blood was for my sins.” Leonard knew the man to be Je...