Three people with stakes in indigenous voter rights in Oklahoma are looking to the Native American Voting Rights Act, co-introduced by Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) to help address voting and election probl...

Summer reading wrapped up last month. We had a great turn out with our outdoor in person events. Despite our COVID restrictions we saw an average of 30 kids at each event. We know it was hot but we wa...

The Oklahoma Tax Commission recently released city sales tax collection figures that primarily represents local tax receipts from July business. The monies they reported this period represent sales fr...

Kids attending the Water Safety with Park Rangers Program on June 29. COURTESY

Last week was a disappointing one for donations to the splash pad project. Only $20 was raised, and that was for the sale of a t-shirt. At a couple of fundraising events held Sept. 4, Memorial Day Wee...

Thirty years ago a small group of senior volunteers embarked on a mission to locate and honor Oklahoma citizens who had reached the age of 100 years or older. In 2020, even with a major pandemic decim...

Former Eufaula City Manager Jacob Foos didn’t remain unemployed for long after he and the City Council came to an agreement on Sept. 10 about his departure. One of the items in the agreement package w...

143 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 22, 1877 OKLAHOMA NEWS The serious troubles which have for nearly a year have been agitating our fair and rapidly improving neighbor on our western border are about t...

Acclaimed artist Jon Tiger’s latest work is inspired from on high. The eye-catching mural the Eufaula native recently completed is on the wall behind the baptistry of Sulphur Springs Baptist Church. T...

Misdemeanor Cases Terry Rondell Austin: malicious injury to property, under $1,000; breaking & entering dwelling without permission Monte Joe Harris Jr.: protective order violation Michele Janine Kram...

One of the highlights of this weekend’s Xtreme Bluegrass Festival will be the Appalachian Road Show, scheduled for two performances starting at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25 at the Xtreme Amphitheater. Fo...

The Oklahoma Department of Mines has recommended that Quality Stone Quarries of Stigler be granted conditional approval for a permit to begin surface mining operations at a 94.36 acre site in McIntosh...

The county’s K9 officers received almost $4,000 in donations and other contributions during the month of August, thanks to the efforts of Lake Dog, 117 N. Main St., a store that offers products for do...

OKLAHOMA CITY – The House Public Safety Committee met at the State Capitol recently to learn about the correlation between the prevalence of quality mental health services and the frequency of law enf...

SOPER – The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma has issued an arrest warrant for Reid Smith Lester Jordan, 27, of Soper, in association with the death of Delbert Hedrick. On Feb. 28,, just before midnight, the...

Pastor Jeremy Little invites and welcomes you to join us at Lake Eufaula Christian Church. We were blessed as the Lewis family joined God’s family at LECC. This was week one of our new series, “I Am” ...

The Judy Chastain Ministry will host A Night Under the Stars With God, a gospel festival set for Sept. 24-25. The two-day event begins at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24 at Lighthouse Radio Station, which is ...

The annual Plumb Theatre Gospel Festival will be held Friday and Saturday, Sept. 24-25 at the theatre on S.H. 9 in Longtown. We are proud and elated to have Tim Allen - an accomplished, smooth virtuos...

Ironically, K9 Tito, one of Eufaula’s police dogs, died of injuries received in training the day before a Eufaula business honored K9 officers throughout McIntosh County. At a monthly meeting of the E...

Marty Farrow, 55, is the longest serving member of the Eufaula Police Department. After 25 years, he still goes to work each day, willing to lay his life on the line to protect the community he loves....