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...

The Eufaula City Council removed former Mayor Todd Warren from the Council Monday night citing excessive absences. City minutes of past meetings presented to the Council showed that Warren missed the ...

Decades before Oklahoma became a state in 1907; years before the first railroad track was laid in Indian Territory in 1870 and the year the Civil War ended, folks in a remote area of what is now McInt...

Mayor James Hickman perhaps summarized best when he sent a letter of appreciation to Karen Weldin and the Vision Eufaula Board of Directors for one of the best Wine & Art Festivals held in the city. “...

At about 7 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, I strolled into the Las Vegas Sun newsroom where I worked as an entertainment reporter. The room was quiet, a palpable feeling of dread filled the air as the f...

Margaret Marie Vickery Floyd has been named the 2025 Eufaula High School Homecoming Parade Marshall. Born in 1927 in Ramona, she is the fourth greatgranddaughter of Chief McIntosh, and the mother of f...

The Homecoming Weekend kicks off Friday, Sept.12, with a Pep Assembly at the Eufaula High School Auditorium at 9:30 a.m. followed by a parade at 1 p.m. The coronation of Homecoming Royalty takes place...

September is Library Card Sign-up Month, and so the new coordinator of Eufaula Memorial Library is taking that opportunity to challenge the Jim Lucas Checotah Public Library to a competition to see wh...

Braddock Dobbs, 31, son of the late Margaret Dobbs, who was on the Eufaula School Board for 15 years, is following in his mother’s footsteps. Monday night, Aug. 8, at its monthly meeting, the Board ap...

Former Army Sp4 Timothy Pickering of Eufaula was honored recently at the Driller Stadium in Tulsa as a “Hometown Hero,” a program that honors people who have had a lasting impact on the community. Pic...

Friday – Sunday, Sept.12-14 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., 210 N. Main St. Booth rental available. Call Mr. Printer at 918-689-5998, Jani at 918-839-8494 or Ricky at 918-424-9961. Prices for all three days: ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Christopher Robinson, with Bank of Eufaula, in Eufaula, recently completed the Oklahoma Bankers Association Compliance School in Oklahoma City. Robinson was among 64 participants at th...

For the first time in the organization’s 27year history, the Oklahoma Scholastic Chess Organization (OSCO) will hold a tournament in Porum, a Muskogee County town with a population of 600. The Porum e...

Stories from the past 147 YEARS AGO Wednesday, September 18, 1878 Distinguished Arrivals C.C. Warfield, formerly a citizen of this city but now of Ft. Sill, I.T., arrived yesterday evening with two Co...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Unfortunately for Oklahoma students and their families, our schools have gone from bad to worse since Gov. Stitt first appointed Ryan Walters as Secretary of Education. We have gone f...

Have you ever noticed how often the real story is hidden in the fine print? Advertisements promise free merchandise or bargain prices, but then come the tiny words: “You only pay $49.95 for shipping.”...

I wish that I would have known about this secret. We love secrets. We tell them in whispers to our friends. We all have them. However, there is one secret that should be shouted from the rooftops. Tha...

Get in the spirit for Gospel Fest at the Plumb. To get in the mood for Gospel Fest, Paul Maloy and his faithful crew will lift the rafters with toetappin’ gospel on Friday, Sept. 12, and turn the stag...

In 1968, Paul McCartney wrote the Beatles’ song Hey Jude to comfort Julian Lennon, John Lennon’s five-year-old son, who was heartbroken when his father left home. Paul’s words were meant to steady a l...

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