October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and Oklahoma Human Services (OKDHS) wants to remind Oklahomans that AbuseisNotOK. Earlier this year, the agency launched a new online portal, AbuseIsNotOK....

My mother hated bugs and insects mainly because she was highly allergic to their stings. E v e n something as small as a gnat bite would make her eyes swell. I inherited several of her allergies and h...

“Oh, love the Lord, all you His saints! For the Lord preserves the faithful, And fully repays the proud person.” “Be of good courage, And He shall s t re ngthen your heart, All you who hope in the Lor...

I guess you could say I’m a mother again, even though I’m not the one who actually gave birth to six. Yes, you read that right, I’m now the mother of six bundles of joy-that is six baby kittens. I res...

I Will Come Again! “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place fo...

As if things weren’t hard enough for Oklahoma’s small businesses, news comes that the Trump administration plans to claw back a chunk of the Pay check Protection Program (PPP) funds legitimate busines...

" ... we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments... "0 Lord, to us belongs shame of face ... because we have sin...

The U.S Constitution requires that a population count be taken every decade for the purposes of distributing funding and representation equally among our communities. The 2020 census has been underway...

Tammy Crites has been named a new agent for All Pro River Valley Realty. Crites has lived in Sequoyah County for many years and has been a successful sales and marketing professional for nearly 25 yea...

The annual Fin & Feather Fall Festival is one event which Sandy Morgan of Muldrow always looked forward to attending and setting up a booth with her husband. However this year with coronavirus up in t...

“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall...

After a bill passed by the Legislature in 2019 became law, nearly 400 miles of rural interstates in Oklahoma will see increased speed limits. At their August 3 meeting, the Oklahoma Transportation Com...

There are numerous scientists and medical experts who declare that if we mandated that everyone wear a mask, that infection from COVID-19 would go way down. Numerous other scientists and medical exper...

The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in many changes to which we must all adjust. Phrases like “selfquarantine” and “social distancing,” rarely used or completely unheard of several months ago are now a ...

I read a post about an article from Fortune magazine that lists 19 Black economists to know and celebrate. I think it is great that we celebrate the contributions of Black Americans, but when Walter W...

“But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will...

“…Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him” (Gen. 5). We are “… to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and wi...

Cherokee Nation’s “Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People” was recently recognized with four Heartland Regional Emmy Awards during a virtual reception on Saturday, July 25. “We’re beyond grateful for th...

Can how we look at long-term care be changing? As baby boomers start to find themselves in need of long-term care, they may be interested in a more flexible kind of lifestyle. In the past, long-term c...

Sara Hutchins of Dora, Okla. says she has always wanted to homeschool her children and with schools planning to reopen for fall classes soon in the midst of the pandemic, she and her husband thought i...