With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, I decided to go with smaller meals this week. I often get requests for something that’s not designed to feed four people anyway. You could easily use thes...

Cameron University has announced the President’s and Dean’s honor lists for the fall 2023 semester. To make the President’s Honor Roll, undergraduate students must be enrolled full-time (carrying at l...

Have you ever felt put upon? You know, that feeling of someone taking advantage of you? I looked up the meaning of “put upon” just to be sure I was thinking of and using the phrase properly. Cambridge...

Preston senior Danielle Hawkins and Henryetta senior Chet Caywood captured the 3-point championships at the 2014 Muscogee (Creek) Nation Okmulgee County Basketball Tournament.The Okmulgee Band Booster...

DEARABBY: After 17 years of marriage, I learned, to my dismay, that when he was 22, my husband had a long-term relationship with a 16-year-old. He insisted that she had lied about her age and told him...

“Hi Jerry! I’m Yuli!”The cheery voice streaming from the phone line of what sounded like a young Far Easterner seemed to pulse with excited urgency.“I’ve just recently come to Tulsa from California wh...

With cat season just around the corner, we would like to address a few issues regarding stray cats. OCHS receives many calls, messages and complaints about stray cats. We do have a small TNR program. ...

With the convening of a special session by Governor Stitt, lawmakers were brought back to the State Capitol on Monday, January 29, a week prior to the start of the Second Session of the 59th Oklahoma ...

DEAR ABBY: My very dear friend has discovered that her live-in boyfriend of two years has been hiding $55,000 in credit card debt. This man contributes very little to the household expenses (she owns ...

As I was thinking back over my school years, I realized that I don’t have much memory of some of those years. The memories that I do have are not always pleasant ones. I also realized that I don’t hav...

“The two of us were hippies back in the 1960’s - but not so much of the drug and partying kind, although we certainly got into that as well...”My new acquaintance Jim was - between his sips of hot tea...

The reason is as clear as waterAs winter makes its presence known - and briskly so - it’s important for horse owners to consider that with lower temperatures comes higher colic risk.“Winter months are...

DEAR ABBY: I am an unhappily married woman with young children. I am attracted to a friend of mine and my husband’s, but he is also married. He’s a bit older, and I can’t tell for sure if he has feeli...

Hello, I’m Babs Martin, Director of the Okmulgee County Humane Society, and I’d like to hear from you. We are trying something new with an Ask Babs article. We would like to know what you would like t...

DEAR ABBY: I have a friend who complains over and over about the same issue. I’ve given her advice and even helped her with contacts to enable her to move so that she’s out of her abusive relationship...

How do you remember all those things, all those stories of your youth and childhood? That’s what people have asked me at times. I’m not sure how I remember those things, but I think a part of it may b...

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend of two years, “Rick,” is addicted to social media - mainly the women on there. I’m not on any of his social media, and it seems like he acts like he’s single there. If he’s not...

For the college student suddenly thrust into the streams of an unfamiliar location and culture, it can feel like a whitewater rafter battling turbulence along a Category Five canyon. Sympathetic voice...

5 Myths and Facts About Pit BullsMyth and Fact: Actually, according to the Animal Rescue League of Boston, there is no such breed as pit bull. “Pit bull is an umbrella term commonly reported to contai...

DEAR ABBY: My husband died in a car accident 38 years ago. Until yesterday, I had never read his obituary. Our daughter and I were not mentioned in it! It was written by my father-in-law. I am very up...