The Preston Pirate varsity baseball team rallied in their final three at-bats Tuesday evening to come away with a 9-7 victory over the Frontier Mustangs. The Pirates trailed 3-2 after the first two in...

The Okmulgee varsity fastpitch softball team suffered a pair of run-rule losses to the Eufaula Lady Ironheads Tuesday evening in Eufaula. The Lady Bulldogs dropped the opening contest by a 10-0 margin...

The 2021 Central Football League got underway two weeks ago. Three of the teams that compete in the CFL are from Okmulgee County - Beggs, Morris, and Henryetta. Each county squad competes in three div...

Warner head softball coach Mickey Duncan moves his outfielders during Tuesday’s fastpitch softball game in Preston. Duncan was the head girls basketball coach at Preston from 2000-2011, guiding the La...

The Okmulgee Junior Football Association will get their 2021 season underway this Saturday with a trip to Jones and a showdown with the Jones Longhorns. The Junior Bulldog football program will be par...

Four Okmulgee County high school football teams will take the field Friday night still searching for their first win of the 2021 season. The Okmulgee Bulldogs, Henryetta Golden Knights, Morris Eagles,...

Okmulgee’s Nicardio Hunt came away with a Top 10 finish at last Saturday’s cross country meet in Okemah. Hunt crossed the finish line in the high school boys race in a time of 11 minutes, 12 seconds, ...

Morris and Beggs renewed their fastpitch softball rivalry Tuesday evening in Beggs with a pair of District 3A-7 contests. The visiting Lady Eagles took the district doubleheader by margins of 15-0 and...

The Preston Lady Pirate fastpitch softball team continued their winning ways Tuesday evening with a 13-0 home win over the Warner Lady Eagles. The shutout win came in District 2A-7 action and kept the...

Henryetta Daily Free-Lance (George Riley Hall, Editor & Publisher) Sept. 9, 1921 “BUD” ROBBINS KILLED BY HIGH WIRE VOLTAGE WIRE Perhaps only his Maker knows why he did it, but at 9:40 o’clock this for...

September is National Honey Month! I love honey and use it as much as possible in dinner recipes, in my drink recipes and in dessert recipes. Peanut butter and honey is one of my favorite sandwiches. ...

f you’re a grandparent, you don’t need Grandparents Day, observed on Sept. 12, to remind you of the joys of having grandchildren. Yet, you might want to use this day as an opportunity to think about w...

Funeral services for Glenda Gail Carter, 70, resident of Morris, were Tuesday, Sept. 7 at 10 a.m. at the Rogers Funeral Home Chapel where Rev. Glenn Pack officiated. Interment followed at the Antlers ...

Kevin Floyd Counts, 47, resident of Henryetta, passed away Friday, Aug. 27 in Louisiana. Kevin was born Dec. 18, 1973 in Henryetta to Floyd Junior and Vera (Cheshire) Counts. Kevin married Sherry Brim...

HENRYETTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS BREAKFAST Wednesday, Sept. 8 – Biscuit, Gravy, Juice, Fruit Cup and Milk Thursday, Sept. 9 – Donut, Craisins, Fruit Cup and Milk Friday, Sept. 10 – Cereal, Applesauce Cup, Ora...

The Dewar Dragon varsity football team’s winning streak reached 17 games this past Friday with a 48-20 victory over the Regent Prep Rams in Tulsa. The lastest win came in the Dragons’ second non-distr...

It makes sense that Janie Simms Hipp, a Chickasaw woman from Idabel, was tapped earlier this year to become chief law officer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). After all, Native Americans...

(Oklahoma City—Sept. 2) – Small towns do not have small histories. But what of their futures? Oklahoma Humanities (OH), in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street (MoMS) p...

The Washington bureau of Gaylord News is staffed this fall by three student journalists who decided as children to become career communicators. The three are the latest chosen to spend part of their s...

Oklahoma Employment Security Commission (OESC) reported a continued decline in initial and continued unemployment claims for July, with both four-week moving averages also declining. In July, Latimer ...