Classes for the 2024-25 school year were set to begin Thursday, Aug. 15, with a lot of new things enhancing the district. The Middle School gym has a new AC system and new fencing. The High School has...

Two people, one from California and one from Checotah, were charged with animal cruelty after numerous animals were found in various stages of starvation and thirst. One dog was found dead in a trash ...

A 49-year-old Checotah man was charged with violating the Oklahoma Antiterrorism Act and threatening to perform an act of violence. Guy Martin Adams was charged with the crimes on Aug. 5 after alleged...

Eufaula Area Arts Council held a Town Hall meeting on July 27 to help organize an important transition, following the pandemic and other events that have created a mandate for re-examination and how t...

The public had the opportunity on Tuesday, Aug. 6 to peek behind the curtains to get a glimpse of the workday life of first responders. From drug sniffing K-9s, to drones; from jaws of life to medical...

Isiah Woodall is the proud owner of a new tricycle thanks to the Eufaula Memorial Library’s reading program. The trike was donated by VFW Auxiliary Post 8798.

Cook-off judges Eddie Hartwick and Robert Campbell had high praise for the 40th Annual Whole Hawg Days, and they weren’t just talking about the chefs but the whole hawg, the fans, the car show, the ar...

The annual National Night Out event will take place on Main Street from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6, a nationwide event created to reduce crime and unite communities. This will be an evening f...

Candidates for offices in the Eufaula Indian Community may file on Aug. 5-9 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the EIC Center. For information call 918-617-7587.

Eufaula Masonic Lodge #1 will host a breakfast fundraiser for Girl Scout Troop 7097 on Saturday, Aug. 3 from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Masonic Lodge, 1104 Eunice Burns Rd. For a $10 donation you get sa...

MUSKOGEE — More than a year after he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the motorcycle wreck that caused the death of his girlfriend, Sheryl Bichsel, a federal judge sentenced former Oklaho...

A Texas man who was arrested in Checotah on July 11 on suspicion of kidnapping a 14-year-old-girl has been charged in McIntosh County District Court with second degree rape and possession of a stolen ...

A gang of juveniles who broke into a Checotah gun store on July 12 and made off with 16 handguns are in the custody of their parents and awaiting criminal proceedings in juvenile court. The five, rang...

Honey Springs hosted their Annual Memorial Service on Saturday, July 13, commemorating the 161st anniversary of the Battle of Honey Springs. Following the meeting, a going-away party was given for Bat...

Family issues statement Oklahoma’s longestserving United States Senator James M. Inhofe passed away at 4:48 a.m. after a stroke on July 9. He passed peacefully, surrounded by his wife Kay, and his thr...

LADONNA RHODES STAFF WRITER On Thursday, July 11, in the early morning hours, Checotah Chief of Police Darren Glover and Lieutenant Marvin Harrell responded to an urgent call by the manager of Checota...

A dozen members of the Eufaula-Canadian Tribal Town joined Saturday morning for a Memorial Walk, an annual event that is in remembrance of the Muscogee-Creek Nation Green Corn Ceremony. It also pays h...

Volunteers with Paws N Claws – Eufaula recently got permission from the Eufaula Fire Department through Jamie Upton to put in a dog/cat food pantry next to the food pantry already at the station. “Bac...

We’re approaching the Hawg Days of summer – those few hot days during the middle of the six weeks of Dog Days of summer (July 3 – Aug. 11) that Eufaula has claimed as its own. It will be hot and sultr...

Eufaula’s renowned historian and unstoppable traveler Roger Thompson will speak on one of his favorite topics at the 11:30 a.m. July 19 luncheon of Friends of the Eufaula Memorial Library. His subject...