Schulter Middle School Student of the Month for May is 7th grader, Journey Henderson. The daughter of Tim Henderson, Journey plays basketball and is also a cheerleader. Students were chosen by teacher...

Local Gamma chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, an international society for key women educators, recently awarded a 2019 Recruitment Grant to Haylee Horton. A graduate student at Northeastern State Univers...

University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) announced two Okmulgee County undergraduate students are among 1,937 graduates who will attend Spring Commencement Ceremonies May 10-11 in UCO’s Hamilton Field Hou...

Henryetta Free-Lance is proud to announce the 2019 Okmulgee County Graduation Section in today’s edition. This special section features Senior pictures and biographies from all of the following area h...

Okmulgee County Shrine Club will host the annual John Godwin Shriner’s Golf Tournament on Saturday, June 22 at the Henryetta Golf Club at 10 a.m. Cash prizes will be awarded for first and second place...

A Texas man is behind bars after he allegedly brandished a weapon to another motorist Wednesday afternoon in Okmulgee. Around 2:30 p.m. on May 1, Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice reported Okmulgee C...

Oklahoma State Representative Scott Fetgatter (R-Okmulgee) and Oklahoma Secretary of Commerce and Workforce Development Sean Kouplen will discuss economic development opportunities in the Okmulgee are...

The 2019 Pecan Festival BBQ Competition is coming in just a month and the application deadline is approaching. The barbecue competition will be held Saturday, June 8. There are two different categorie...

OKEMAH - The Dewar Lady Dragons will send two athletes to this weekend's Class A state track and field championships at Western Heights High School in Oklahoma City. Junior Anika Wehner and senior Sav...

STUART - The Dewar Lady Dragon varsity slowpitch softball team had their 2019 season come to a close last Thursday evening. The Lady Dragons suffered a 22-8 defeat at the hands of the host Stuart Lady...

SHAWNEE - The Henryetta Lady Knight slowpitch softball team’s first state tournament appearance since 2015 was scheduled to take place Wednesday at The Ballfields at Firelake. The Lady Knights were sc...

TULSA - Henryetta's streak of state tournament appearances in high school girls tennis continued in 2019 as the No. 1 Doubles duo of Haley Glass and Bailey Davis punched their tickets to this weekend'...

DEWAR - The Dewar Dragons' bid for a state tournament appearance ended last Friday with a 16-6 loss to the Tushka Tigers at the Class A regional baseball tournament. The Dragons found themselves with ...

Henryetta High School Track Team was recently named State Track Qualifiers. Team members pictured above, front row, left to right include: Brighton Cantrell, Trevor King, Riley Floyd and Bailee Worlow...

Cinco de Mayo, or the fifth of May, is a holiday that celebrates the date of the Mexican army’s 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War. While it is a relatively...

Dismounting the tractor I moved toward the farmhouse, “I’m ready for some iced tea and whatever mom’s put out on the lunch table.” Stepping to the back door I slapped lingering hay fragments from my b...

May 5th thru 11th is Be Kind to Animals Week. May 7th is National Teacher Appreciation Day. Eleanor Estes (05/09/1906 West Haven, CT – 07/15/1988 Hamden, CT). Eleanor was born the third of four childr...

DEAR ABBY: I have a former co-worker whose husband was just released from a psychiatric facility. He had threatened to kill himself and take the entire family with him. I met him before the incident. ...

Quality education is a product of dedicated teachers with a passion for their work, not of the architectural style of the building where they conduct their classes. In education, buildings really don’...

Congressman Markwayne Mullin (ROK) yesterday joined his colleagues, Jackie Speier (D-CA), Richard Hudson (R-NC), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Charlie Crist (D-FL), a...