Use your imagination to discover what makes you happy. Explore what life offers and what you can do if you focus on what’s important to you. Make home, family and financial security your top prioritie...

30th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Bible is the single best personal trainer that there is. That’s the message that St. Paul, or rather the Holy Spirit through St. Paul is trying to teach us. I’ve known...

American author of children and young adult books, Laurie Halse Anderson, was born Oct. 23, 1961 in Potsdam, N.Y. Her father was a minister and she had a younger sister, Lisa. As early as second grade...

Under the direction of Bandmaster David Hunt, the Henryetta High School Band has won several awards and executed some major accomplishments during this school year. The band started with a third place...

Haunted House & Halloween Carnival Just in time for Halloween, Dewar Indian Community Center will host Three Nights of Terror in a Haunted House on Saturday, Oct. 22, Oct. 29 and Oct. 30. The cost to ...

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time I don’t know about you, but I am already seeing Christmas things around town, starting even before Halloween. But it has reminded me of when I was a young boy and every ye...

Oct. 22, Oct. 29 & Oct. 30 Haunted House & Halloween Carnival Just in time for Halloween, Dewar Indian Community Center will host Three Nights of Terror in a Haunted House on Saturday, Oct. 22, Oct. 2...

25 YEARS AGO – 1997 PVT. CARON GRADUATES BOOT CAMP Private Gabriel M. Caron of Wilson will be graduating from Boot Camp at Ft. Sill on Oct. 23, 1997. Pvt. Caron is a 1995 graduate of Wilson High Schoo...

Recipe courtesy of the North Carolina SweetPotato Commission Servings: 6 2 – Large sweetpotatoes, baked 1 – Small onion, 1/4-inch diced 2 – Tablespoons olive oil 1 – Quart chicken or vegetable stock 2...

A few years ago, we had a guest preacher in our church one Sunday morning. Several of his congregants also were there in support of their beloved pastor. In the middle of his sermon, suddenly one of t...

Breakfast Thursday, Oct. 20 – Donuts, fruits galore and milk. Friday, Oct. 21 – Cereal, toast and jelly, fruits galore and milk. Monday, Oct. 24 – Banana muffin, fruits galore and milk. Tuesday, Oct. ...

Lois Lenski was born Oct. 14, 1893 in Springfield, Ohio. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father was a Lutheran minister. She was the fourth of five children (three girls and two boys) in the fa...

Okmulgee Main Street’s Harvest Spoon Chili Festival returns to downtown Okmulgee next weekend and it is looking like the weather will be perfect for the annual event. The festival will kick off Saturd...

Sunday morning forty-three Master Masons of Tulledega Lodge No. 201, of Henryetta will journey to McAlester, where they will take the 32 degree as Scottish Rite Masons. This is said to be the largest ...

Praise & Worship Tulledega Hills Gospel Music Theater will host a Praise & Worship Open Mic Night on Saturday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. at 3000 W. Main Street in Henretta. Sign-up begins at 6:30 p.m. For mor...

Henryetta First United Methodist Church will host several fundraiser events for the community in coming weeks. Halloween Trunk or Treat will be held on Friday, Oct. 28 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. All area c...

Come join us at First Baptist Church in Hoffman as we study and learn about our great Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Sunday School Bible Study begins at 10 a.m. and is followed by Morning Worship Servi...

Lola Palmer will be conducting a survey on employment and unemployment in the Henryetta area for the US Department of Commerce Census Bureau, it was announced Saturday. The survey, taken monthly by th...

Visit the Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum to take part in its Ghost Stories Candlelight Tours for one night only, Saturday, Oct. 29 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Guides will lead guests through an outdoor tou...

Henryetta Mule & Donkey Days A first annual Henryetta Mule & Donkey Days and Mule Jump & Trade Day is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 22 and Sunday, Oct. 23. The event will kick off with a parade down Ma...