Oklahoma teachers received a raise in pay in 2018, which is reflected below. The state minimum salary was increased at all years of experience and degree levels by an average of $6,100. Okmulgee Count...

City of Henryetta crews made quick work with the demolition of abated properties earlier this week. Crews are pictured at the 200 block of North 13th Street early Tuesday morning as they continued cle...

Henryetta High School (HHS) Performing Arts Student Association (PASA) will present a much-anticipated Summertime Special, A 2019 Cabaret for two nights. The first show will be held tonight, Friday, A...

During a special meeting of the Henryetta Board of Education, a nearly 45-minute long executive session was held to discuss hiring of a first grade teacher. At the suggestion of Superintendent Dwayne ...

Henryetta Chamber of Commerce and REMAX Double Diamond Properties are thrilled to announce the 26th annual Jim Shoulders Living Legends Rodeo in Henryetta. This year the rodeo will be sanctioned by th...

Henryetta Elementary School’s (HES) Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) will hold a Raffle Contest for a chance to win four reserved seats to several elementary events throughout the 2019-2020 school ye...

Roxy Butler, Business Manager at the Oklahoma Lions Eye Bank in Oklahoma City, was the guest speaker during the Henryetta Lions Club meeting held Tuesday. Butler said the eye bank is the only one in O...

The Henryetta Youth Football Association (HYFA) began practice this week, prepping for the fall football season. Putting on their armor, the Henryetta little league teams went through different offens...

Dewar Middle School student Breona Harvell lent her talents to competitive softball team the Oklahoma Diamondbacks over the summer. The Oklahoma Diamondbacks, with the help of Harvell, made it all the...

After setting fire at districts, the Dewar Lady Dragons are heading into a rebuilding year. Dewar High School’s fast pitch team ended the 2018-19 season with a positive overall record of 23-14. The La...

Cade Bridges and Laura Griffin were married on May 10, 2019 at the Greenleaf Barn in Broken Arrow. Cade is the son of the late Cara Chaney Bridges and the grandson of Phyllis Chaney and the late Carl ...

DEAR ABBY: I will soon be retiring from a lay position in my church. As a former member of the choir, I'm being urged to return to it, which appeals to me. My problem is a member who has caused troubl...

Our country has been shaken by senseless tragedies recently in Gilroy, California, El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. My heart breaks for the families who have lost loved ones at the hands of sick indi...

Eileen Spinelli, who has authored more than forty children’s books was born on August 16th, 1942 in Philadelphia, PA. She graduated from Rose Valley, PA high school, loves old items and country things...

Two decades passed. Baby Ann’s emergency operation had extended her years. Courageously now, my young bride would undergo an esophageal stretch – a procedure to be repeated more than once through late...

Cinnamon is one of my favorites all around, both scent and flavor. There is just something about the scent that draws me in. It probably has something to do with the cinnamon rolls we had every Sunday...

This Sunday, August 11th, 2019, is the EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. The readings for this Sunday are from Jeremiah 23:16–29, Acts 20:27–38 or Romans 8:12–17, and Matthew 7:15–23 Beware of False Prophe...

A World War II veteran and one of the last of the USS Arizona’s surviving crew after Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor, 98-year-old Lonnie Cook, has died. Cook died July 30 in Carmichael, Calif., ac...

WASHINGTON -- Oklahoma’s two U.S. senators – Republicans Jim Inhofe and James Lankford – split their votes on a two-year-budget bill that President Trump quickly signed into law, and Inhofe’s provisio...