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Happy 129th Birthday, Tecumseh! This week marks that historic milestone for the city that was the...

Bethel Middle School Fastpitch Softball team finished the season undefeated. Members of the team...

Shawnee City Commissioners voted unanimously to extend the city's controversial face-covering...

This past week, with the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there has been plenty...

Virtual Art Classes are available for parents and students to fit into their schedules this fall....

The Shawnee City Commissioners met on Monday to approve a lengthy consent agenda, and consider...

PART ONE No matter what else you may say or think on this finally tolerable, somewhat cooler fourth...

This has been a tough year for everyone - global pandemic, wildfires, hurricanes, job losses,...

Funny how time gets screwed up during a pandemic. I ran into Sharla Dyer the other day and it...

This Saturday Sept. 26, Sharon Baptist Church will have a dedication ceremony for its new Coats for...

Shawnee resident W.R. Qualls celebrated his 105th birthday recently. Mr. Qualls was born Sept. 11,...

Oklahoma's Equalization Education Funding Formula is considered the fairest in the nation,...

No one looks forward to dying because it is usually the result of an illness or an accident or the...

Willeta Sharon Short, of Tecumseh, Oklahoma, died Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. Sharon, the daughter of Re...

Menelva "Ruth" Bruton was born in the boomtown of Three Sands, Oklahoma. to Thomas Edmond "Eddie"...

Donna Lee Haney, 69, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, died Sept. 17, 2020, in her home. A wake service was...

Ann Bivins, 79, of Shawnee, died Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in a local nursing center.  Services...

Yvonne Dolin-Ruzicka died April 24, 2020, in Peoria, Arizona. Born and raised in Shawnee, Oklahoma,...

For the 16th consecutive year, The Princeton Review recognized OBU as one of the best colleges and...

Frequent attendees of the Shawnee City Commission meeting may have noticed several Planning...

The ladies of the St, Benedict Catholic Church Parish Guild get items ready for the upcoming parish...

It's been an exciting era of growth for the "Little school on the prairie" and things are not...

It was a tale of two halves last Friday night in Tecumseh. The Savages were lackluster in the first...

A sunny, clear day and a performance by the Bethel Jazz Band set the scene for 45 vehicles to...