Associate District Judge Brendon Bridges announced the following changes at the McIntosh County Courthouse. In light of Supreme Court Administration Directive No. 2020-29 we are going to adopt the fol...

“The municipal governing body may enact and enforce such ordinances, rules and regulations as it deems necessary for the protection of the public health, not inconsistent with state law; and may estab...

With recent rainfall and warmer weather, fishing for crappie and white bass is heating up statewide. These species are beginning their annual spawning routines by moving into shallower water, making t...

In the early spring of 2018, Speaker Joe Byrd found a seat on the airport shuttle headed to Tulsa International Airport, and over the radio heard a familiar, yet surprising sound: the Cherokee Youth C...

“Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ Then I went and washed and received my sight,” reported the blind beggar whom Jesus had healed. The Pharisees were criti...

McIntosh County Treasurer Betty Whisenhunt has announced that all penalties and interest on the second-half payment of the 2019 ad valorem tax payments will be waived if remitted to the County Treasur...

A Bristow man and wife were killed in a twovehicle accident near Hitchita Sunday. Erwin and Janet Christensen, both 62, were pronounced dead at the scene from multiple injuries. According to the Oklah...

At a special meeting of the Eufaula City Council Thursday, March 26, it was unanimously approved to amend the directives in a recent Declaration of Emergency by Mayor James Duty. A March 16 Declaratio...

A motorcyclist was critically injured in a single vehicle accident north of Eufaula Sunday evening. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, at about 7 p.m. William Barton, 27, of Checotah, was ridin...

Not too many years ago distance education was more or less a novelty. A nice idea, but folks didn’t think it would every replace the classroom, where students would learn by face-to-face interaction w...

STILLWATER – Health officials are warning rural communities to be just as cautious as more densely populated areas in their response to the spread of COVID-19. A lower rate of person-to-person transmi...

Associate District Judge Brendon Bridges sometimes thinks outside the box. When the state supreme court restricted the courthouse to employees, subject to some narrowly tailored exceptions, he moved c...

School Superintendent Jeanette Smith helps volunteers load a bus with food to be distributed to students at bus stops throughout the district. Smith said more than 400 meals were distributed by the bu...

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

STILLWATER – As the number of cases of COVID-19 continues to rise across the state, people must educate themselves about the symptoms and how to prevent the virus’ spread in their own homes, said Gina...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Health Care Authority is taking measures to ensure continuity of care and services for SoonerCare members in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our priority is the health...

Welcome to Lake Eufaula Christian Church. Our theme for 2020 is Grow: God Directing Our Way. Our current Sunday School classes and sermons are online because of the virus. Please join us on LECC Faceb...

An election emergency declaration issued by the State Election Board Secretary on March 18 will impact elections scheduled for April 7 in McIntosh County, the County Election Board Secretary confirmed...

JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR No, martial law has not been declared in Eufaula. City Manager Jacob Foos says the rumor began to spread last week. “I think that would require a declaration by the state or...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Executive Order 2020-07 ordered the closing of non-essential businesses in the state to close at 11:59 p.m., on March 25. Several industries are deemed essential during the CO...