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sports

November 19, 2025

The Checotah Impact Player of he Week is Jayden Lake. Lake finished with three receptions for 152 yards in the Wildcats’ 38-20 loss to Inola in the first round of the playoffs. Impact Player of the We...

Sports | Outdoors

Antlerness harvest

November 19, 2025

With antlerless deer harvest trending downwards the past few years, hunters are urged to take advantage of the state’s more liberal bag limits and more open days for antlerless harvest. There are seve...

Sports | Outdoors

BIG GAME SEASONS

November 19, 2025

Deer • Deer Archery: Oct 1, 2025 – Jan 15, 2026 • Deer Gun: Nov 22, 2025 – Dec 7, 2025 • Holiday Antlerless Deer Gun: Dec 18, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025 Elk • Elk Archery: Oct 1, 2025 – Jan 15, 2026 • Elk Gu...

Sports | Outdoors

Lake Eufaula Fishing Report

November 19, 2025

Fishing at Eufaula Lake in Oklahoma is currently fair to good, with largemouth bass biting on crankbaits and plastic baits near brush, points, and shorelines. Catfish are good, particularly blue catfi...

Sports | Outdoors

Deer Gun Season draws near; We got you covered

By Rut Report to Drop Next Week

November 19, 2025

With deer archery season underway and the popular gun season set to open Nov. 22, hunters are turning their attention to what’s happening in the woods and fields. Next week’s 2025 Rut Report from the ...

Obituaries

Doris Marie Pollard

November 19, 2025

Doris Marie Pollard, 86, of Eufaula, Oklahoma, passed away peacefully on November 9, 2025. She was born on May 2, 1939, in Thayer, Kansas, to Clyde Curtis Hines and Hazel Leonard Hines. At just 16 yea...

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No. 9 Longhorns rally to end Wildcats’ season in first-round playoff showdown

By Rodney Haltom sports EDITOR

November 19, 2025

INOLA — For one dramatic half, the Checotah Wildcats looked poised to shock Class 3A. But a late second-quarter swing, punctuated by an 87yard pick-six with just six seconds left, ignited No. 9 Inola’...

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Eufaula’s Kacin Bass riding high toward a World Championship dream

By Rodney Haltom sports EDITOR

November 19, 2025

Kacin Bass of Eufaula has been riding to success since the first time he burst out of the chute — and he’s not slowing down anytime soon. The young cowboy has already wrangled an impressive list of ac...

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Hodgins keeping All-State dream alive

By Rodney Haltom sports EDITOR

November 19, 2025

Eufaula senior football standout Luke Hodgins has been working hard to keep his dream of making All-State alive. Hodgins (6’2”, 220 lbs) is an overwhelming talent on the gridiron. He has played multip...

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Battle of Honey Springs still making history

By LaDonna Rhodes Staff Writer

November 12, 2025

The Battle of Honey Springs Reenactment drew sizable crowds as did Education Day as actors and staff made history come to life over the threeday weekend of events from Nov. 7-9. Visitors and students ...

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Street work continues

November 12, 2025

The Main Street project (SH 9) by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation in Eufaula is expected to continue through the first week in December. An ODOT spokesman said the downtown section of the pr...