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HOMECOMING 2020 IS HERE!!!!!!

Okeene High School will be celebrating Homecoming on Friday, Sep. 18. The Whippets will be playing the Sharon-Mutual Trojans. Coronation will begin at 6:30 p.m. that evening. The attendants for this year are R.J. Minton-Freshman, Tiffany Lorenz-...

Okeene mourns the loss of a local legend and icon

The Okeene community laid to rest Jane Felder Nusz last Friday, Sep. 4, 2020, during the global COVID-19 pandemic, with services at her beloved Saint Anthony of Padua church with live video of the funeral mass services streamed live at the Okeene...

Luckie Drug celebrates 10-year business anniversary

On Aug. 26, Luckie Drug hosted a 10th Anniversary Open House in celebration of 10 years of business in Okeene. To read more please log in or subscribe to the digital edition https://etypeservices.com/The%20Okeene%20RecordID208/

Football team helps with local thrift shop

Members of the Okeene High School Football Team recently helped out with some good old fashioned community service at the thrift store operated by Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church. To read more please log in or subscribe to the digital edition...

Air Evac Team to deliver game ball to Sgt. Bauman on Senior Night

The Okeene Whippets are set to play their first home game of the football season next Friday, Sep. 11, against the Seiling Wildcats. On that night, Okeene will have quite the pre-game festivities lined up as they celebrate Senior Night in addition...

Lady Whippets win wild one over Cherokee as part of undefeated week

The Okeene Lady Whippets swept a pair of games with Cherokee and Thomas, scoring a combined 33 runs in the process. On Tuesday, Okeene saw 37 Lady Whippets reach base in crazy 21-19 victory that took seven innings. The girls followed that up with a...

News

HOMECOMING 2020 IS HERE!!!!!!

Okeene High School will be celebrating Homecoming on Friday, Sep. 18. The Whippets will be playing the Sharon-Mutual Trojans. Coronation will begin at 6:30 p.m. that evening.

By Cheryl Boeckman

Officials offer few solutions as alleged rapist is freed

Due to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that effectively reestablished the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s tribal reservation in Oklahoma, an alleged serial rapist may never face trial.

By Ray Carter, Director, Center For Independent Journalism, Oklahoma Council Of Public Affairs

Positive COVID-19 test in the elementary addressed at Sep. School Board Meeting

The Okeene School Board of Education held their monthly meeting last Thursday, and while the agenda was rather simple, the recent positive test for coronavirus for one of the elementary students wa

By Austin Smith

Opinion

Small town living is the life for me cont….

Last week’s column was the story of 11-year-old Tiffany’s dreams coming true and coming to live in Okeene.

By Tiffany Hoffman

The epitome of a servant of the Lord

My hometown of Okeene lost one of its greatest citizens and laid her to rest last week.

By Saddled Up On The Trail By Paul Laubach

Small town living is the life for me

It was the summer of 1985–The Goonies and Back to the Future played at the mall, The Power of Love was topping the charts, and Christa McAuliffe had just been nominated to be the first teacher in s

By Tiffany Hoffman

Sports

JH Lady Whippets’ rally comes up just short in Waynoka

The Okeene Junior High softball team had one game last week when they traveled to Waynoka on Tuesday to face the Lady Railroaders.

By Austin Smith

Air Evac delivers game ball on senior night

An Air Evac Team from Weatherford delivers the game ball to Sgt.

Big plays fuels pewee Whippets over Canton

The Okeene pewee and junior high football teams open their seasons in Canton last Monday.

By Austin Smith

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