Participants in the upcoming Sheep and Meat Goat Boot Camp will combine classroom and hands-on education in an effort to better manage their operations. (Photo by Mitchell Alcala, OSU Agriculture) By Trisha Gedon STILLWATER, Okla. – Small ruminant producers [...]

Simple Modern is an Oklahoma company. The Oklahoma-based company expands its third-annual Stock Your School campaign and gives $500 grants for five local Teacher of the Year educators. Oklahoma-based drinkware and consumer goods company Simple Modern expanded its [...]

  Downtown Poteau’s Dewey District continues to see new energy with the addition of Eight Forks Ranch Café, bringing renewed activity to the historic area. Just next door, at 102 Dewey, Bridgman’s Furniture is receiving attention of its own. This [...]

Image submitted by authorPexels By Miriam Neal For local business owners and operations leads at small and medium businesses, business IT infrastructure can feel like the one thing that must stay calm while everything else shifts. The core [...]

Study Offers Clarity for Pastors About Their Church Members PITTSBURGH (August 18, 2026) – According to a groundbreaking study from Infinity Concepts and Grey Matter Research, the average evangelical gives himself or herself just a 2.42 GPA across 12 key areas of spiritual [...]

OBU Red Earth Concert Series Claire Marquardt former Poteau resident serves as collaborative pianist on the Oklahoma Baptist University faculty. This year, she has founded the Red Earth Chamber Series (RECS), an independent professional chamber music concert series [...]

Oklahoma Highway Safety Office Local law enforcement ask drivers to help protect Oklahoma roadways and put an end to drunk driving.  Oklahoma City, OK — From August 19 through September 7, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and [...]

Oklahoma Department of Libraries This year, ODL launched another highly successful community of practice. These groups help library staff connect to meet statewide and local needs. Workforce Development joins Health and Youth Services—each topic centered in a space where libraries [...]

Summer and back-to-school bike and e-bike use puts renewed focus on roadway safety OKLAHOMA CITY – Aug. 6, 2026 – As we roll through the dog days of summer, approach the start of a new school year, and more Oklahomans take [...]

Provided by author Pexels By Tony Vieira Count the cans in your local cooler that use the word "clean" somewhere on the front. Clean energy, clean caffeine, clean fuel. By number one hundred, you may begin to realize [...]

Carolyn May Donithan of Spiro, Oklahoma was born on December 21, 1946 in Rushville, Illinois to Richard Carl and Violet May (Harn) Lashbrook. She passed away on August 17, 2026 in Fort Smith, Arkansas at the age of 79.   [...]

Funeral services for Betty Howard McKinney Roberts, 95, of Barling, Arkansas, will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, at Mallory-Martin Funeral Home Chapel in Spiro, Oklahoma, with Brother Johnny Holderfield and Bob Pryor officiating. Burial will [...]

Celebration of Life services for Lesley Dale Dugan, 72, of Spiro, Oklahoma, will be held at a later date. Cremation is under the direction of Mallory-Martin Funeral Home in Spiro, Oklahoma. Lesley was born on September 24, 1953, in Fort [...]

Cynthia L. Willis (Stout) of Poteau, Oklahoma passed away on August 15, 2026, in Fort Smith, Arkansas at the age of 63. Cynthia was born March 19, 1963, to Dale and Wanda (Corley) Stout in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Full obituary [...]