Are you ready to be onstage? The Okmulgee Community Playhouse will hold an open ‘mic’ night at the Orpheum Theatre on Jan. 22, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Feel free to share your talent, wheth Feel free to...

St. Michael Catholic Church The Baptism of the Lord (Is. 40:1-5…/Titus 2:11-14…/Lk. 3:15-22) Last Sunday, We celebrated the Solemnity of the Epiphany. The word of “Epiphany” means “manifestation.” The...

There must be something in the water, or maybe it just might possibly be that ole’ down-home feelgood feeling that we Okies offer these “transplants.” This is the third program in the past two months ...

Cornerstone Foursquare Church “Cornerstone is a place for young “Cornerstone is a place for young people to come know Jesus and express themselves,” lead pastor Rev. Mickey Baldwin said. He continues,...

What’s a year? This may be a question most of us don’t think too much about, but is really important. A year is 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days (unless it’s leap year), 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes and ...

With 2021 about to end, the staff at Oklahoma Farm Bureau Insurance in Okmulgee County is celebrating a successful year. This year, the agency celebrated Agent Jim Hall’s 20 year anniversary with Okla...

December 31 New Year’s Eve Watch Meeting | Conversion Ministry, 1330 E. Martin Luther King Drive, will hold a New Year’s Eve Watch Meeting Friday, Dec. 31, from 6 to 8 p.m. The public is invited to at...

All City Hall offices and Public Works operations will be closed on Friday. Emergency service operations, police and fire departments, will remain operational during that time. Sanitation service for ...

The Okmulgee Young Professionals congratulates the winners of the Light Up Okmulgee Christmas Light Contest. Pictured above, Residential First Place was Billy Hannon and Second Place went to Ken Ander...

Midwestern State University recognized 1,036 honor students for the Fall 2021 semester. The President’s Honor Roll included 369 students, the Provost’s Honor Roll included 302 students and the Dean’s ...

Oklahoma Human Services (OKDHS) began accepting online applications Dec. 28 for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and Low Income Home Water Assistance Programs (LIHWAP). These fed...

Cornerstone Foursquare Church “Cornerstone is a place for young people to come know Jesus and express themselves,” lead pastor Rev. Mickey Baldwin said. He continues, saying, “This Sunday, one of our ...

Tuesday’s Okmulgee Lions Club program was our annual Lions-Rotary Coleman’s pie bingo meeting, and a good time was had by all because almost everyone won a pie. It doesn’t get much better than that. O...

Oklahoma families looking for a fun activity after the holidays should look no further than the fresh-cut Christmas tree in their living room. The tree came into the home from nature and now, after th...

December Students of the Month were recently honored at the Green Country Technology Center’s Go Green Assembly. Congratulations to the following students: AM BPA - Chyra Hawkins (Preston) Programming...

Congratulations to these Green Country students who have accomplished perfect attendance for the first semester of school. Diamond Been - HCC - Morris Kalin Grogan - HCC - Morris Jonathan Hamilton - C...

Christmas Eve Services Cornerstone Foursquare Church 6:30 p.m. - 617 N. Oklahoma, Okmulgee First Church of the Nazarene 6 p.m. - 711 N. Okmulgee, Okmulgee First Presbyterian Church 5 p.m. - 401 S. Sem...

The start of a new year is the perfect opportunity to kick old habits and create new ones. For those thinking about quitting tobacco, programs like the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline can more than double t...

It is estimated that Christmas is celebrated in some form in approximately 160 different countries, and for many of these, it is a commemoration of the birth of Jesus regardless of other traditions ob...

The Fostering Connections Mobile Unit, designed to help meet the needs of children in foster care, delivered Christmas to some foster families in the area Thursday morning. Mobile Connections Mobile C...