VARNUM - The Dewar Dragons earned one of their biggest wins of 2019 Tuesday evening with a 10-4 victory over Class B No. 4 Varnum. The Dragons (19-7, A No. 8) turned an early deficit into a sizeable l...

WELEETKA - The Henryetta Golden Knight varsity baseball team held off the host Weleetka Outlaws Tuesday evening to earn an 8-7 victory. Tuesday's narrow win over Weleetka puts the Knights at 14-8 on t...

The Henryetta Lady Knight slowpitch softball team came away with a split decision earlier this week. The Lady Knights suffered a 30-22 defeat to county rival Preston Monday evening on their home field...

Sherri Case and Joy Hlavaty were hostesses for the March 19 meeting of the Okemah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Pepino’s Restaurant in Okemah. The tables were beautifully deco...

Dewar Public Schools recently announced high school and middle school Students of the Month for February. Pictured above (left to right) are high school students Nathan Sullivan and Savannah Been and ...

The April Student of the Month for Schulter High School is junior, Malaki Hedrick. Malaki is the daughter of Derek and Claudette Hedrick. Malaki attends Green Country Vo-Tech, holds the office of juni...

Whittney Treagesser is a 12th grade student and Henryetta FFA member. She is also the 2018-2019 Henryetta FFA Chapter President. Her parents are Jeff and Denise Treagesser. Whittney participates in ca...

April 14th is Palm Sunday. April 15th is Titanic Remembrance Day. April 16th, 1890 is the birthdate of Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author mainly of children’s stories. Born in Putnam, CT the se...

Seeing the Creasons brought me a happy Labor Day. The weekend weather mellowed, ensuring a decent motorbike back to Cody. Autumn ended. It was a great little bike but with winter coming on, logic won ...

I love Mandarin oranges. The little wedges are easy to eat. The sweeter taste makes a good alternative to sweet candies. They are versatile and can be eaten plain or added to your favorite dishes to a...

It’s nearly unprecedented in a town of this size, but a student can go from preschool all the way through a college bachelor degree and never have to leave town. Okmulgee has both public and charter s...

More than 355,000 adults in Oklahoma are currently living with diabetes. For each of those people, access to affordable insulin is not just an ongoing concern, but a matter of life and death. Diabetes...

DEAR ABBY: My mother moved in with my sister in California around 1993. After 20 years, I asked her what she wanted to do with her storage unit, which was still in Arizona. Long story short, she said:...

Seventh-day Adventist Churches Okmulgee SDA Church, on Hwy. 62 between Morris and Okmulgee Maranatha SDA Church, 1213 East Chicago Okmulgee, Oklahoma 74447 We invite you to join us at any of our servi...

During the April 8 regular Henryetta Board of Education meeting, board president James Williams presented an Oath of Office to newly-elected Seat #4 board member, Pam Bealko. Bealko will take the plac...

A woman was arrested on child abuse complaints Monday in Okmulgee County. Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office Investigator Aaron Swayze stated the OCSO was contacted by a local school district after seve...

Henryetta FFA Nursery Landscape Team members Aggie Gillin, Hulleah Wincle, Allison DeVore and Kirsten Espinosa attended a recent Connors State College (CSC) FFA Interscholastic Competition in Warner. ...

It’s almost that time! OSU Institute of Technology and Okmulgee Main Street have teamed up once again to put on the annual OrangeFest festival in downtown Okmulgee, Friday, April 12. This free communi...

Are you ready for some Donkey Basketball? Four teams will face off in the championship game at Ryal Public School on Friday, April 12 at 6:30 p.m. Teams participating include Henryetta Fire Department...