Hillcrest Hospital Henryetta Vaccine Clinic will begin administering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, known as Janssen, on Tuesday, March 16. The clinic has supplies to administer 200 Janssen doses on T...

Dewar High School’s Football Banquet and Ring Ceremony will be held Saturday, March 13 at 6 p.m. in the Dewar First Baptist Youth Building. Seating will be limited. Players, cheerleaders and other inv...

Okmulgee County Treasurer Vonna Lampkins is reminding all taxpayers that the deadline to pay the last half of ad valorem taxes is quickly approaching. The last day to pay the second half of taxes is W...

Eight Henryetta Cub Scouts participated in Pack 118’s annual Pinewood Derby on March 6 at Henryetta First Baptist Church. Scouts created custom small, wooden cars that were raced down a long, sloped t...

Green Country Technology Center’s is excited to welcome everyone to the Cosmetology Program Open House on Thursday, March 25, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The Okmulgee Chamber of Commerce will be on hand for...

In just about any endeavor, you’ll benefit by showing resilience – and that’s certainly true when it comes to achieving your financial goals. You can demonstrate this resilience by answering these que...

Okmulgee County softball teams, the Preston Lady Pirates and Okmulgee Lady Bulldogs, went to battle with the Ketchum Lady Warriors in Preston on Monday. The showdowns with Ketchum were part of a 3-tea...

The Henryetta Golden Knight varsity baseball team suffered a pair of double-digit losses to the host Holland Hall Dutch on Monday afternoon. The Knights dropped the opening contest by a 13-2 margin, t...

Kaden Stanley was awarded the gold medal at the recent 2021 Oklahoma High School State Wrestling Championships in the Class 5A 138 pound weight class. Kaden is a senior on the Claremore Zebra High Sch...

Wilson first baseman Michael Conard (5) leaps high into the air to snare a throw while Okmulgee’s Alex Gilmour races to the bag during Tuesday’s county baseball showdown at Morgan Field at Bateman Par...

Preston and Beggs renewed their softball rivalry here Tuesday afternoon with the host Lady Demons coming out on top by a 15-5 margin. The two county squads combined for 20 runs on 22 hits and 7 home r...

The Preston Lady Pirates kicked off their 2021 slowpitch softball season Monday at home against Okmulgee County rival, the Okmulgee Lady Bulldogs. The Lady Pirates began their campaign on a winning no...

The Okmulgee Lady Bulldog varsity slowpitch softball team scored their first win of the 2021 season Tuesday evening with a 7-1 victory over the visiting Wilson Lady Tigers. The Lady Bulldogs’ win stre...

The Henryetta Lady Knight slowpitch softball team began their 2021 season Monday evening, taking on the Checotah Lady Wildcats and Okemah Lady Panthers in a 3-team meeting at the Henryetta softball fi...

The Okmulgee Bulldog varsity baseball team earned their first win of the 2021 campaign Monday evening at historic Dan Morgan Field at Bateman Park. The first victory of the season came against the vis...

The Henryetta Lady Knight golf team battled six other teams, as well as powerful wind gusts, to take home the team championship at the Wewoka Tournament on Tuesday. The Lady Knights finished with a te...

Seafood is one of my all-time favorites, as anyone who reads my column should have ascertained by now. I have done two columns on shrimp, a column on crab and I have included many recipes in between f...

Virginia Hamilton, children’s book author, was born March 12, 1934 in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The youngest of five children, her grandfather came to Ohio by underground railroad as a baby in the late 18...

An overwhelming show of volunteer support was evident at the recent Feed the Feed Food Distribution event in Henryetta on March 5. America’s Guardians Motorcycle Club, Henryetta Fire Department, Henry...

It was announced that multiple agencies have been working fires that took place over the weekend during the Monday meeting of the Okmulgee County Commissioners. In two separate incidents, Okmulgee Cou...