Wednesday, June 5 – Cheesy Egg and Ham Bake, Stewed Tomatoes, Biscuit with Country Gravy, Banana, Orange Juice, and Milk Thursday, June 6 – Pepper Steak with Brown Gravy, Steamed Rice, Meadow Blend Ve...

Hillcrest Hospital Henryetta hosted a public preview and tour of its on-going emergency room expansion and remodel project on May 28. Tours were given through Radiology, the emergency room waiting roo...

After almost 20 years of covering Okmulgee County sports, Henryetta Free-Lance and Okmulgee Times Sports Editor Larry Owen is leaving his post May 31. Most people have seen Owen along the sidelines, c...

Guest speaker at the May 29 Henryetta Rotary Club meeting was Justin Been, new Henryetta Public Schools Athletic Director and teacher. A Henryetta High School graduate, Been is excited about being a p...

Susan Barnett and Dorothy Burden were hostesses for the April meeting of the Okemah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Pepino’s Restaurant in Okemah. The tables were beautifully de...

Okmulgee County had the second highest unemployment in April, according to the latest news from the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. During April, Latimer County and McIntosh County tied for f...

Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Treat named Senator Roger Thompson as co-chair of the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT) oversight committee on May 29. Senate Bill 1, signed i...

Henryetta will see many visitors this Saturday, June 1 during Summer Cruise Knight, Henryetta R/C Aviators Fly-In & Air Show and the Disc Golf Tournament. R/C Aviators event begins with flying at 9:30...

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

Oklahoma lawmakers closed out the 2019 session Thursday after nearly four months of debate on hundreds of bills that could impact the state for years to come. The final week of the session saw the pas...

Three more cases of measles have been confirmed in Okmulgee County, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) and the Okmulgee County Health Department (OCHD). The heath department s...

Wilson Public Schools Board of Education hired Larry Childers as a teacher and football coach for the 2019-2020 school year. On Wednesday, Childers stopped by the Free-Lance office to announce that he...

Oklahoma’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is now offering free bacteriological testing of private water wells that have been submerged in flood water for all 77 counties in the state. “If y...

Henryetta’s Feed the Vet program announced the next food distribution date will be Friday, June 7 at New Life Assembly of God Church. “Volunteers are needed to assist with putting together and helping...

Savannah Been, a 2019 graduate at Dewar High School, will lace up the basketball shoes two final times as a high school basketball player over the next three weeks, competing in a pair of All-State Ga...

Summer vacation is here and kids are running wild. Ok maybe not wild, but they are certainly enjoying not going to school. This is a great time to teach kids left at home how to have more responsibili...

Dear Abby   DEAR ABBY: Around 12 years ago, I helped out an old friend I'll call Patty by creating an author website for her. I have maintained it for her ever since. She is grateful and gives me a gi...

People are flocking to downtown Okmulgee like we haven’t seen in many years. One reason is because of the growing number of excellent dining options now available. Q: What are some of your favorite fo...

While many people across the country celebrated the unofficial start of summer last week, Oklahoma braced for severe weather and faced catastrophic flooding. As I traveled around Northeastern Oklahoma...