Sometimes you just need a friend. Someone to cuddle in your lap and help you feel loved.

A dozen years ago, “Voices from the Heartland” was released by Emily Dial-Driver and three friends and co-editors. It was introduced and reviewed by them to Claremore Friends of the Library.

OKLAHOMA CITY – State Sen. Micheal Bergstrom, R-Adair, has been appointed to serve on the Oklahoma Route 66 Centennial Commission, a 21-member panel that will help plan the state’s celebration of the 100th anniversary of “The Mother Road.”

The Sequoyah High School Football program celebrated its 2019 Homecoming Coronation on Friday, October 11th at the Pope Athletic Complex. This year, Senior Kimberly Gatzmeyer was crowned Queen with Senior Trevor Wood as the King. Nominees and attendants: Front Row (L-R):  Flower Girl Emmer P…

Saturday at the Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch will focus on life as Will knew it when he was growing up. Saturday, Oct. 12, “Hands on Historians” volunteers will demonstrate making butter, grinding corn and quilting among other activities in the lifestyles of the 19th Century. There will also…

Halloween is a real treat at the Claremore Veteran's Center.

Oklahoma Lt. Governor, Matt Pinnell, (center front) was in Claremore Saturday for the High Noon Shoot Out at the J. M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum serving as the grand marshal.

TULSA, Okla. – Track 5. is hosting more free and open-to-the-public shows throughout the month of October, including performances from Ned LeDoux, Jason D. Williams, Tucker Beathard and Steve Wariner.

Pending civil litigation, power cost adjustment changes, and a record retention policy are all on the upcoming Claremore City Council agenda.

Following a massive turnout at their first debate, the Rogers State University Secular Student Alliance is hosting another one.

Our employees here at the Cherokee Nation are the backbone of our government and business operations. It is our mission to be the employer of choice in northeast Oklahoma. Increasing the minimum wage for tribal employees was one of the first things I set out to accomplish as Principal Chief.…

Inola High School students arrived prepared Monday night to ask the Inola Board of Trustees to consider creating a community recycling program.

The Oklahoma men and women who maintain the power lines for our state’s publicly-owned electric utilities came together in Ponca City in late September (25th and 26th) for two days of competition and comradery. Most importantly though, they came together for the sake of safety education.

On Sept. 28, First Lady Sarah Stitt spoke at Hope Harbor’s Open House, Fish Fry & 5k, located on the campus of Hope Harbor in Claremore. She addressed Hope Harbor’s mission to offer hope and reconciliation to families effected by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).

C. Thomas Howell, who came to Oklahoma fame as Ponyboy in The Outsiders, filmed in Tulsa, and Barry Corbin, longtime actor on television and big screen, will headline the Will Rogers Motion Picture Festival. The Festival is a celebration of the Nov. 4 birth of Will Rogers on an Oologah India…

Teams from the Sequoyah Middle School and Mid High recently completed at the Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance Kinetic Sculpture contest at the Tulsa Expo. Students were challenged to build a moving sculpture that included parts recycled from a timing device and incorporated the 2019 Tulsa State …

Members of the Sequoyah High School Academic Team recently traveled to Skiatook to face off against four other schools in a round-robin format, Battle of the Brains scrimmage. Students were required to answer questions over science, math, history, pop culture, and fine arts. Pictured (L-R) J…

Meet Zip, a pup whose energy matches his name. Zip is playful and needs a family full of energetic kids to play with. The 5-month-old Shepherd-Mix needs love, and a big back yard to play in.To adopt give this goofball a forever home, contact the Claremore Animal Shelter at 918-341-1260 or vi…

TULSA, Okla. – Indie pop sensation Fitz and The Tantrums are bringing their smash hit “HandClap” and others as part of their “All The Feels” Winter 2020 Headline Tour to The Joint inside Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa on Feb 8.

Cub Scouts of Pack 141 completed a grant project from the Cherokee Nation and Council Member Keith Austin, to install US Flag Retirement bins at the Local VFW Post and the American Legion Post 141.

The little lady with the silver hair and the golden personality that greets J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum visitors and regulars alike with her pretty smile is getting ready to hang up her welcome mat.

Following the tragic fire at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Claremore, the annual German Dinner has been on hiatus, until the opening of Redeemer’s new Family Life Center earlier this year.

The look is recognizably native. Red-brown clay decorated in black chevrons and swirls.

The Will Rogers Library invites everyone to Escape from the lingering summer heat and join us for some all new ‘Strange’ and exciting Fall Festivities! We’re kicking off the pre-Halloween season with a new Stranger Things Escape Room! “Escape Rooms are popular game events where people are ‘l…

Gathered together in a small meeting room Wednesday afternoon, with fresh coffee and chocolate chip cookies, sat nine pained but smiling faces and one tired dog.

What could be sweeter than Skittles? Meet this precious 8-week-old kitten, whose cuteness will make you snicker. You’ll be over the Milky Way, and have a whopper of a good time with little guy. Although he can be a little shy at first, Skittles will make a great third musketeer to your famil…

TULSA, Okla. – Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa is putting a spotlight on local and national comedy with its new Midnight Joker Comedy Club, held monthly in the Multi-Purpose Room near Track 5.

The Safe Route to School project is finally underway and new sidewalks are being constructed along the route to the Elementary School. This has been a long awaited project. This project will improve walking and bicycling conditions by constructing continuous sidewalks from the Inola Elementa…

“Somewhere West of Wall Street” comes to Claremore again Monday, Sept. 30. Red Steagall, whose television show explores the lifestyles of the American West, came to Will Rogers Memorial Museum earlier this year.

Join us in celebrating the poetry of Lynn Riggs at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26 at the Claremore Museum of History. Dr. Crag Hill and Todd Fuller will be speaking on poems by Lynn Riggs found in the Western History Collection at the University of Oklahoma and the Claremore Museum of History.…

A Sept. 24 lecture at Rogers State University will explore myriad issues surrounding imprisoned women in Oklahoma, which has long led the nation in female incarceration rates.

What is Junior Ocieleta all about/what is your mission?

It’s getting closer.

Rogers State University has named two faculty members to endowed chairs at the university.

A mission team from Claremore First United Methodist Church (FUMC) recently returned from a week serving McCurdy Ministries Community Center in Espanola, NM. The 14-member team included: Linda Polson (Team Leader), Sandi Atwood, Lisa Early, Frankie Long, Chris Moody, Bill Polson, Jim Scantli…

Fans, collectors, knife enthusiasts, all are invited to the Central States Hammer In and Knife Show this Saturday in Claremore.

Fourteen new cub scouts to Pack 141 toured the JM Davis Gun Museum Monday evening. Boy Scout Troop 828 Scout Master and Museum Curator Jason Schubert led the tour.

The annual Rogers County Free Fair Archery Competition was held at the Expo Center horse arena on Friday, Sept. 13. In the Genesis Division, Junior Class, Cade Rouw won first place and Adeleigh Brouse took second. In the Intermediate Class, Jackson Simplson placed first, Ashlynn Augustine wa…

Your favorite childhood cartoon has been brought to life. Meet Garfield and Odie. These two precious 6-month-old kittens are so sweet and fluffy you’ll find yourself wanting to feed them a whole lasagna. But don’t, because that is not healthy. Garfield and Odie’s adoption fees are $65, and i…

The Claremore Veterans Center's Boccia team is hard at work practicing for an upcoming Tulsa Tournament.

At the end of yet another well-attended county fair, the Rogers County Fair Board started a new tradition.

Members of the Sequoyah Chapter of Business Professionals of America recently attended the Oklahoma Blood Institute Blood Drive Training Seminar held at Northeastern State University-Broken Arrow Campus.

Bird distribution and weather occasionally go in hand, but if you believe that you have found a bird out of its normal range of distribution, make a photographic record of it. Sometimes this is easier said than done, so witnesses will help prove the point, which is why birding alone isn't al…

The Claremore Progress’ annual best of is back, with more categories than ever before.

The RSU Film Society will present the neo-noir film classic “Chinatown” on September 17 at 6:00 p.m. in the Baird Hall Performance Studio.