2025 Lake Eufaula Fishing Tournaments

Sports | Outdoors

April 17, 2025

April 26 Fisherman’s Choice April 27 OK High School May 1-3 MLF Toyota Series May 4 XFL May 17 Fisherman’s Choice May 17 Future Bass Trails May 30-31 Gary Nichols June 1 Future Bass Trails June 7 Fisherman’s Choice June 18-20 NPFL June 21 & 22 South Central Bass Anglers June 27& 28 National Crappie League June 28 Fisherman’s Choice July 11 & 12 Wounded Warriors July 12 & 13 OK Heros Outdoors July 27 Future Bass Trails September 13 & 14 Fisherman’s Choice September 25-27 Crappie Masters September 26-28 Paralyzed Veterans October 4 & 5 Future Bass Trails LLC October 4 & 5 Hawg Hunter’s Bass Circuit October 18 & 19 XFL October 24 & 25 MLF BFL October 25 & 26 XFL October 31 Oklahoma Bass Nation November 1 & 2 Toby Keith’s Fish Bowl November 1 & 2 Hawg Hunter’s Bass Circuit November 8 Lawter’s Last Bass

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Mary Isham retires from USPS

By LADONNA RHODES STAFF WRITER

May 8, 2025

Mary Isham retired last week after 20 years with the Checotah Post Office. She started her career with USPS Dec 25, 2004. “I was a stay-at-home mom of four kids until my youngest started school,” Isha...

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Community invited to Memorial Day Service at Greenlawn Cemetery

May 8, 2025

Honoring All Veterans Friday, May 23 at 5 p.m. Veterans Park in Checotah Free Hotdog & Hamburgers Games and Fellowship Compliments of the McIntosh County DAV The DAV Chapter 3 Mc-Intosh County will ho...

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Checotah Schools Dates to Remember

May 8, 2025

May 9 – Kindergarten Graduation May 16 – CIS Track Meet on Football Field May 16 - 9th-12th Awards Assembly at 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. at PAC May 16 – Emerson Ramsey Talent Show (MS/HS) from 1:30 -2:30 p.m....

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Early voting May 8, 9

May 8, 2025

On May 13 there will be a general election for State Senate District 8 and for Green Country Tech Center Proposition. Early voting for those two elections will be at the Mc-Intosh County Courthouse fr...

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Pooches paraded at Art and Bark in the Park

By LADONNA RHODES STAFF WRITER

May 8, 2025

The first annual Art and Bark in the Park presented by the Checotah Art Guild was a great success! Visitors had fun choosing outfits and accessories to put on their dogs from the large selection provi...

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Journalism edged out by Sovereignty in the Kentucky Derby

May 8, 2025

The Kentucky Derby was a soggy but sensational race this year as Journalism and Sovereignty went neck and neck to a sloppy finish with Sovereignty taking the crown. Fulfilling a dream decades in the m...

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Lake 10 feet above normal, and rising

By JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR

May 8, 2025

Water release rate: 39,429 cubic feet per second More than seven inches of rain have fallen during the past week. That, coupled with severe rainfall north and west of McIntosh County, has swollen the ...

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Checotah Band Spring Concert and Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser May 8

May 8, 2025

The Checotah Band Spring Concert is May 8 and will be a Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser. Dinner will be served at 5 p.m. in the HS Cafeteria and then the concert begins at 6 p.m. in the PAC. The bands hav...

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Eastern Oklahoma Library System receives $20,000 grant

May 8, 2025

MUSKOGEE – The Eastern Oklahoma Library System is pleased to announce it has received a $20,000 grant from the Carolyn Watson Rural Oklahoma Community Foundation Fund at the Oklahoma City Community Fo...

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Olivia Shackelford receives Youth Prevention Award

By LADONNA RHODES STAFF WRITER

May 8, 2025

Olivia Shackelford became a member of Youth Action for Health Leadership (YAHL) to make a difference in her school and oh what a difference she had made! Olivia affectionately known as Livy to her fri...

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Free 5K and Community Fun Run

May 8, 2025

Join the fun on Saturday, May 24 for a free 5k and Community Fun Run, hosted by Neighbors Building Neighborhoods. Preregister for “Just Glow With It” to save your spot and for a free event t-shirt and...