news
April 14, 2022
County Clerk’s office wins chili competition
The first Courthouse Chili Cookoff, a friendly competition among the various offices in the courthouse, was held Thursday, April 7.
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September 4, 2024
Blues fans, young and old, enjoyed the 34th Rentiesville’s Dusk Til Dawn Blues Festival put on by Selby Minner , staff and volunteers this past weekend. The Labor Day festival that started in 1991 wit...
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September 4, 2024
Editor’s Note: September is National Suicide Prevention and Recovery Month and therefore we will be covering a critical and often overlooked issue: the alarming rate of suicides in rural Oklahoma. In ...
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September 4, 2024
The race for District 2 McIntosh County Commissioner in last week’s primary runoff election was a photo finish, with challenger Clifford McElhaney defeating incumbent Monty Grider by a nose. McElhaney...
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September 4, 2024
MUSKOGEE – Fredrick Cody Burkhalter, 27, of Rentiesville, was sentenced to 222 months in prison for causing the death of a person by firearm during a crime of violence, according to the United States ...
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September 4, 2024
Wine & Art Festival Don’t forget to mark your calendar for one of the biggest events of the year in Eufaula – Vision Eufaula’s Wine & Art Festival, set for Saturday, Sept. 7, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Th...
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September 4, 2024
SALLISAW – Zachary Aaron Bandy, 44, who once operated the Flamingo Fish and Marine store in Eufaula, pleaded no contest on Aug. 26 to eluding/attempting to elude police in Sequoyah County. Sequoyah Co...
commentary
September 4, 2024
In 2016 J.D. Vance released a memoir of his formative years as a member of a hillbilly family just trying to survive. His story was about overcoming obstacles as he eventually made it out of his small...
commentary
September 4, 2024
Recently I have thought a lot about the importance of places and people in your life. What truly makes or breaks a person – the psychological debate of nature versus nurture. How both nature and nurtu...
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September 4, 2024
MUSKOGEE -Elijha Dewayne Taylor, 34, of Okmulgee, was sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. Taylor...
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September 4, 2024
Lately, the United States has been experiencing increasing inflation rates, and Oklahoma is no exception. Acc ording to March 2024 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 60% of Oklahoma respondents reporte...
commentary
September 4, 2024
Many scriptures of the Bible use sports metaphor to describe the Christian life, referring to spiritual journeys as races we run to fulfill the divine assignments we were placed on earth to achieve. I...
