The Oklahoma Department of Corrections plans to provide a $2,500 sign-on bonus to newly hired prison officers and temporarily boost pay for employees working in especially understaffed facilities. The...

Oklahoma students lost ground in nearly every grade and subject as they struggled to learn amid COVID-19 disruptions, newly released test score data shows. Results from state assessments taken by stud...

The Muscogee Nation’s newest facility, Looped Square Meat Company, is undergoing final construction in hopes to open to the public before the end of 2021. Trenton Kissee, Division of Agriculture and N...

The Okmulgee community is invited to join in the 3rd annual Indigenous Peoples Day event on Monday. It will begin at 12 noon on Oct. 11, on the south lawn of the Council House Museum. The afternoon pr...

The 25th Okmulgee Harvest Spoon Chili Festival returns next weekend to downtown. The event will kick off Saturday, Oct. 16 from 11 a.m - 4 p.m. Contestants will be participat Contestants will be parti...

The Beggs Area Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce the return of the Fall Fest next Saturday, Oct. 16. Lots of fun activities during the festival, which begins at 10 a.m. and concludes with the...

The Town of Grayson welcomed the return of the Gumbo Fest on Saturday, after last year’s festival was cancelled due to COVID-19. The festival is the towns main fundraiser and those funds are important...

The Square in downtown Okmulgee will soon have a new occupant as renovations have begun in the former M & D Drug location at 108 S Morton. Lumberjack Attack owner Gene Barber says being from a small t...

Some of the Okmulgee FFA officers attended the Northeast Area FFA Chapter Officer Leadership Conference recently. Also, congratulations to the Okmulgee FFA Chapter on recently receiving a Public Servi...

The Oct. 12 meeting of the Okmulgee County Republicans will feature State Senator Nathan Dahm. Senator Dahm has declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Senator James Lankford...

This is the final week to sign up for Christmas Angels and a holiday meal through the Okmulgee Salvation Army. Christmas Angel and Food applications will be taken at the Family Store through Oct. 8 fr...

The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS) has received a federal grant to support law enforcement crisis intervention training (CIT). The department delivers CIT ...

The Showpiece of Okmulgee band is shown with their third place trophy following a competition Saturday in Tishomingo. The Showpiece competed in Division 3 at the Tishomingo Tournament of Bands, spon s...

More than 2,400 volunteers from over 80 companies and organizations performed both in-person and remote community service projects throughout the area last Friday for Tulsa Area United Way’s (TAUW) 30...

Lots of area schools will be traveling to the City of Beggs Saturday for the Band of Demons Annual Marching Invitational Contest. The Oct. 9th event begins at 8:30 a.m. Director Matt Caldwell stated t...

Okmulgee County Treasurer Vonna Lampkins, will auction off 27 parcels or tracts of land all situated in Okmulgee County to the highest bidder on Oct. 18, beginning at 9 a.m. The auction will be held a...

An Okmulgee recovery program is celebrating four years of helping residents. Celebrate Recovery (CR), which meets each week at Jubilee Christian Center, will hold a celebration, graduation and gatheri...

No action was taken on renewing a county burn ban during Monday’s meeting of the board of commissioners. A 7-day ban was issued last week, but with the area receiving rain, and a chance of more later ...

Okmulgee Main Street recently announced their latest mural project. “We are excited to let the community be part of this unique mural,” Executive Director Heather Sumner said. “The mural, ‘Bee the Cha...

While the store may look the same, the Nutrition Shoppe, located at 206 W 6th St, has been under new ownership since June 1. Laci Slape took over the establishment from Darrell Collins after losing he...