- 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 ...

Eufaula voters stayed away from the polls in droves Tuesday, Feb. 11, when they had been asked to decide whether to approve a one-cent sales tax increase to help pay for street improvements. There are...

SKIATOOK – It was a family affair at the Feb. 15 groundbreaking ceremony for Veterans Park. The Park is being created in honor of the late Justin Lambillotte, who was a soldier when he died at Fort Ho...

JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR Sam and Linda Johnson moved to Eufaula in 1967 where Sam worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engi- neers as a hydro elect powerhouse mechanic. For a time, they lived in a rent...

The following is taken from a handwritten transcript by Ernest “Ernie” Hrdlicka and provided to the IJ by Ernies grandson, Mark Warren. Ernie’s Store and Market was built in 1948, after World War II. ...

A 39-year-old Eufaula man charged with assaulting his girlfriend and brother last year entered an Alford plea in district court Friday and was given a 10-year suspended sentence. An Alford plea is a g...

Stories from the past 147 YEARS AGO Saturday, February 6, 1878 A NEW PHASE IN INDIAN AFFAIRS Some years ago the United States concentrated Indian tribes upon the territory known as the Indian Nation, ...

Gaydawn Harris graciously invited FLEAS to her gorgeous home for an ice cream social. Her home sits high on a mountain side with a spectacular view of Lake Eufaula. All members brought finger foods or...