Superintendent makes case for passage The January 13th meeting of the Eufaula School Board was the culmination of several months of meetings and planning of the Capital Improvements Committee composed...

WASHINGTON – Former University of Oklahoma president, Oklahoma Senator, and Oklahoma Governor David L. Boren (D) died early Thursday morning. He was 83. “Few individuals have so wholeheartedly dedicat...

African Americans and Labor The 2025 theme highlights African American impact in the workforce. One of the individuals we recognize is A. Phillip Randolph. He is acknowledged as the greatest black lab...

The annual Black History Month Seminar will be held Saturday, March 1 at 11 a.m. at the Mt. Olive Star Baptist Church, 413665 E. 1080 Rd., Checotah, under the direction of Rev. Samuel Cunningham, Past...

For the March 4 Special Election Primary Senate District 8, early voting begins Thursday, Feb. 27. Voters who will not be able to make it to the polls on Election Day, have the option of voting early ...

Conservative and local businessman, Hoss Durrett, wants to represent his rural community so he is running for the State Senate District 8. Durrett, has been married to his wife, Misty, since 2007 and ...

The McIntosh County Democratic Party will hold their monthly meeting on March 11 at 6:30 p.m. in Checotah at the Jim Lucas Public Library, 626 W. Gentry Ave. Two candidates will be there, Nathan Brewe...

- Hard treatment, hard-tack and hard-ship constitutes a regular soldier’s life on the frontier. - There are 700 vessels engaged in dredging for oysters in Maryland waters of Chesapeake Bay and its tri...

It’s said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing expecting different results.” This describes the failures in reading proficiency by Oklahoma students, despite billions of dollars of inc...

While its effort to buy Bibles for classrooms is tied up in court, the Oklahoma Department of Education initiated a new vendor search to purchase materials containing Bible-infused character lessons f...

Fat Tuesday Pancake Supper and Ash Wednesday Service All are welcome to attend the Fat Tuesday Pancake Supper at Eufaula First United Methodist Church on Tuesday, March 4th at 5:30pm. The free supper ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Senior Day will take place on Monday, March 3. Events will kick off at 8:30 a.m. with sign-in at the second-floor rotunda. Volunteers and signs will guide the way. The Senior Day sessi...

OKLAHOMA CITY – The House voted Feb. 19 to approve a consent decree resolving a 2023 lawsuit against the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. The lawsuit alleges ODMHSAS ...

A recent spat between Superintendent Ryan Walters and Governor Kevin Stitt has many people asking: what is happening? According to one Oklahoma congressman, it’s posturing. “It’s political season, rig...

This is the ballot voters will see when they go to the polls for the special primary election for the Senate District 8 seat on March 4. All of the names on the ballot are Republicans. Only one Democr...

Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, has taken pains to boost his national profile and get in President Donald Trump’s good graces. It’s made Oklahoma politics awkward in the...

Army Staff Sergeant Tom Butler, of the 2120th Engineer Company located in Broken Arrow, had the privilege of being part of the 60th Inauguration last month and was honored to be there. “I’ve been in t...

March is right around the corner and we have lots of exciting programs planned for the month. You can find a calendar of our programs at eols. org/events. For children and teens, we will have STEAM Br...

A cinderblock building in the 200 block of E Street, between Belt and Broadway, stood for 77 years a few hundred yards from the shore of the cove on Lake Eufaula. For the first 25 years or so it was E...

The Order of the Purple Heart will be presenting the Town of Vernon with its purple heart sign at a ceremony and dinner at 1 p.m. on Feb. 22. For dinner, you must RSVP prior to the event to have your ...