Hospitals across the region are urging people who need to be tested for the coronavirus to find other testing locations. In a letter to the...

The omicron variant of the coronavirus now accounts for more than half of Oklahoma’s new coronavirus cases, state health officials said. Data...

Kay County’s active coronavirus case numbers increased by more than 40% during the week ending Dec. 29, Kay County Health Department officials said...

New Years is upon us. It is extremely popular this time of year to implement New Year’s Resolutions and get excited about improving some area of...

The First United Methodist Church on Coolidge Avenue will be hosting a live Nativity for one night only next week, December 20. 524 W. Coolidge...

The most wonderful time of the year is upon us. Christmas music is on the radio, ads are all over the television, and decorations have started to...

Blackwell residents have a new store to shop at thanks to the opening of the Dollar Tree, 1301 W. Doolin Ave. The store opened in early January and...

The wait is over as the Blackwell Elementary School and Ferguson Avenue sidewalk project has finally begun. The project, which will see a sidewalk...

The Blackwell Area Chamber of Commerce will host its long-awaited 127th annual banquet Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. in the Blackwell Event Center. Tickets for...

Fern (Evelyn) Diedrich met her Heavenly Father on January 11, 2022 after a brief illness. Evelyn was born on April 28th 1933 to Calvin Burnes and...

Leslie G. Weckner, formerly of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Saturday, January 8, 2022, at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas, at the age of...

Carolyn Ann Epperly of Braman, Oklahoma, died Thursday, January 13, 2022, at Stillwater Medical Center – Blackwell at the age of 75 years....

OPENING STATEMENT “TROUBLING TIMES” In a recent study group of friends, it was discussed about the past few months being some of the most...

2022 has taken another entertainment star: country music singer and songwriter Dallas Frazier. If you like the tune “Elvira” by the Oak Ridge Boys,...

“I’ve seen this movie before.” “Not this movie.” SCREAM, the fifth entry in Wes Craven’s long-running meta-horror-slasher series which...

The City of Blackwell will install a state-ofthe-art 911 system this year, in 2022, that will go a long way toward saving lives and making...

The Blackwell High School Maroons wrestling team traveled to Guthrie on Jan. 13 for a dual meet with a ranked Class 5A team. The Maroons got a...

The Blackwell High School wrestling team won their second tournament of the year when they won the Cushing Tiger Invitational last weekend. The...

The Blackwell Maroons wrestling team traveled down Interstate 35 on December 10-11 for the Annual Tournament of Champions. Blackwell would...