Legislative committees begin workThe 1st Session of the 59th Oklahoma Legislature is in full swing! Lawmakers have been working at the Oklahoma State Capitol for over two weeks now, and bills are movi...

DEAR ABBY: Regarding “Baffled in Iowa” (Nov. 4), it appears the letter writer’s friend may be in danger. As you stated, the man her friend became involved with is “more than a little controlling.” At ...

February is hard for me, but I have done better this month than I usually do. This week, it caught up to me and I have struggled. Monday I didn’t want to get out of bed. Valentine’s Day is hard since ...

Mike Taylor invited Okmulgee County fishing fans to come out and enjoy the fun!Local fishing professional Mike Taylor was at the 2013 Bassmaster Classic Expo this Friday, Saturday at the Tulsa Civic C...

DEAR ABBY: My married friend is a swinger. She says her husband’s sex drive has declined lately, but it hasn’t. He keeps trying to get me to talk “naughty” with him, but I always refuse. To me, that w...

My mom was a philosopher. If you would tell her that, she would deny it and look at you quizzically, wondering what in the world you were thinking. None-the-less, she was one. You see, she was a stude...

For first century disciples, the exercise of praying served as Jesus’ teaching tool as well as his vehicle of sweet communion with his father, God.Like fruit-bearing branches linked to a common vine, ...

February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.Statistics show that one in three U.S. teens end up experiencing physical, sexual or emotional abuse from someone they are in a...

DEAR ABBY: Whenever my husband, kids and I go away, my mother-in-law insists on staying at our house. She then rearranges the rooms in my house, moving things to where she thinks they should be. She a...

For the first part of each year, the main focus for the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) is to track legislation at our State Capitol. We also work to raise awareness about those significa...

Improvements also expected locally in 2013 Editor’s Note: The City of Okmulgee was honored this past year with two awards: The 2012 Environmental Excellence Award and the Oklahoma Municipal League 201...

The Okmulgee Lions Club is launching a new program of honoring one boy and one girl high school student of the month to attend a regular Tuesday noon meeting. The students are selected by the school a...

Valentine’s Day is Tuesday. I thought about doing some dinners for two, but when I was making the grocery list the thought had completely fled and I just didn’t. This week there is no theme either. I ...

Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time.* If we are on the hunt for a single line summing up the disposition of a Jesus disciple, we might start with the above phrase. It was him who t...

“Love Your Neighbor as Yourself … so you must love yourself first. This month is perfect to begin to do so. February is the month of love and all sorts of ways to spread it. It is also National Heart ...

I suspect that all of us have at least one experience in life that has caused us such total embarrassment that we still cringe in chagrin when we recall it. It may have been unintentional, but it stil...

DEAR ABBY: I recently gave birth to our second child, a girl. Shortly afterward, my husband called his mother. She lives in a different state hours away and visits only once a year. When he told her t...

On Monday, February 6, the Oklahoma Legislature convened for regular recurring business, which will run over the next four months. We heard from Gov. Kevin Stitt with his proposed agenda for the upcom...

DEAR ABBY: I’m writing on behalf of my partner of more than 10 years. He has three daughters ages 23, 20 and 16. While he’s close to two of them, his youngest distances herself when she doesn’t get wh...

Can you believe it’s already February? The days pass far too quickly. I usually don’t care much for February, but I have decided to make the conscious effort to celebrate instead of be sad. While I do...