Eufaula:Elevation normal, water murky. Crappie good on minnows and jigs in coves, main lake and under bridges. Blue and flathead catfish fair on cut bait, dough bait, shad, stinkbait and worms below t...

The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry is now accepting applications from Oklahoma institutions of higher education, state agencies or governmental subdivisions of Oklahoma, or trad...

On September 13, 1789 – Start of the US National Debt as the government took out its first loan, borrowed from the Bank of North America (NYC) at 6 percent interest. The US debt had reached $77 millio...

Thirty-nine trash-bashers helped clear trash from Lake Eufaula campgrounds Saturday. Eufaula Middle School Principal Chris Whelan drove a busload of student volunteers to the event. Volunteers from Te...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas-Damage Control-man 2nd Class Reuben Mosco, a McAlester, Oklahoma, native assigned to Navy Recruiting Station Copperas Cove, was meritoriously advanced to the rank of petty officer f...

The 5 th Annual  Mega Gospel Festival will be held at the Plumb Theatre on State Highway 9 east of Eufaula in Longtown on Sept. 28, 29. Armbands for the festival are $10 for one day, and $15 for two d...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma History Center is honored to announce the opening of a photographic exhibit entitled “‘Where They Went’: A Photographic History of Oklahoma Animals.” The title is extracte...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office (OKSHPO) is pleased to announce the newest National Register of Historic Places listing for Oklahoma. The National R...

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a week for the Acoustical Travlin’ Uprights. We left Eufaula Wednesday morning and arrived in LeMars, Iowa, Thursday morning, where we were met by the Bob Everhard, president...

The Eufaula unit of United Methodist Women met on Thursday, Sept. 6 for a potluck luncheon and regular meeting.   The meeting was held in the new church location at 251 Mathews Lane.  A large number o...

The McIntosh County Oklahoma Retired Educators Association, OREA, will hold their first monthly meeting for the school term 2018-2019 at 1 p.m., Friday, Sept. 14, at the Jim Lucas Library, Checotah. T...

A motorcycle passenger died in a single vehicle collision accident at about 12:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 2, on a county road two miles north and four miles east of Eufaula. According to the Oklahoma High...

The McIntosh County Democrat will be donating weekly newspapers for Mrs. Petsch’s fifth grade reading class to encourage her students to read more about their community. Last week’s newspapers were al...

McIntosh County’s economic outlook is a little bit brighter, according to July statistics released by the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, and by recent sales tax collection figures for Eufaul...

YUKON - The Ninety-Nines, International Organization of Women Pilots, a long-established non-profit organization in Oklahoma City, will host a fund-raising hangar dance at 6 p.m. on Sept. 29 at Sundan...

Blue Thumb is hosting a volunteer training for those interested learning how to monitor local streams and creeks. This training will take place on Saturday, Sept. 22 at the Tahlequah Armory Municipal ...

Rehearsals are underway for Lake Eufaula Playhouse’s production of “A Christmas Story.”    The cast includes a mix of adults and children for this traditional Christmas comedy set in the Midwest durin...

A check for $10,000 was presented to Emergency Youth Shelter last week by the Southeastern Oklahoma Association of Realtors. The money was raised at SOAR’s 5th Annual Spaghetti Dinner & Bingo event he...

Propane explosion coming On Saturday, Sept. 8, the Eufaula Fire Department will host a propane class for firefighters from across the state. Some 46 firefighters will learn about propane tanks and how...

Three Eufaula members of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation appeared in tribal court on Aug. 27 to answer charges of stealing funds from the tribe. The three are former executives of the Eufaula Indian Commu...