Community mourns the loss of Randy Bridges

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April 17, 2024

The community of Eufaula lost another wonderful person this past week: Randy Bridges. Bridges was a standout athlete at Eufaula in both football and basketball. He worked with his father Max at the family hardware and furniture store, B&F Furniture.

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Blues fans entertained all weekend

By LaDonna Rhodes Staff Writer

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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Let’s Talk About It: Changing the Narrative

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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Commissioner Grider asks for a recount after narrow loss

By JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR

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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Rentiesville man gets 18 years for brutal murder

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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Mark your calendar

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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Former Eufaula businessman pleads guilty

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...

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Reviewing Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis’

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...

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The importance of the right places and right people

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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Okmulgee man sentenced for murder

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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Oklahoma’s historic grocery tax cut coming soon

By REP. NEIL HAYS

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...

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Let teamwork enhance your spiritual race!

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...