2025 Checotah Fast-Pitch Softball Schedule

Sports

August 7, 2025

Aug. 11 @ Sallisaw 4:00 Aug. 12 @ Stilwell 5:00 Aug. 14 @ Hilldale 4:00 Aug. 15 vs. Stigler 4:00 Aug. 18 vs. Fort Gibson 4:00 Aug. 21-23 @ Okmulgee Tournament TBA Aug. 25 vs. Inola 5:00 Aug. 26 @ Locust Grove 4:00 Aug. 28 Checotah JH Tournament TBA Aug. 28 @ Muldrow 5:00 Aug. 30 @ Eufaula Festival TBA Sept. 1 Labor Day Sept. 2 vs. Locust Grove 4:00 Sept. 4-6 Eufaula Tournament TBA Sept. 8 vs. McAlester 5:00 Sept. 9 @ Wagoner 4:00 Sept. 11-13 @ Sallisaw Tournament TBA Sept. 15 vs. Glenpool 5:00 Sept. 16 @ Inola 5:00 Sept. 18 vs. Hilldale 4:00 Sept. 20 vs. Wagoner 10:00 Sept. 22 vs. Stilwell 5:00 Sept. 23 @ Glenpool 6:00 Sept. 25 @ Fort Gibson 4:00 Sept. 29 vs. Morris 4:30

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City of Checotah Announces Hiring of First Full-Time Fire Chief, Greg Carmack

August 13, 2025

The City of Checotah is proud to announce the hiring of Mr. Greg Carmack as the city’s first full-time Fire Chief, marking a historic step forward for the community’s public safety services. Chief Ca...

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County desperately needs animal control

August 7, 2025

Since taking on the task of helping to rehome pups at the Eufaula pound over a year ago, Paws N Claws founders, LaDonna Rhodes and Lori Powell-Fells have seen three times as many county pups tossed ou...

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OSU Extension sponsors County Show

By Free Fair Schedule

August 7, 2025

The annual McIntosh County Exhibition and Livestock Show will be held Aug.14-16 at the fairgrounds in Eufaula, sponsored by the OSU Extension. The days and times to mark on your calendar are as follow...

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Warrant issued for drug suspect

August 7, 2025

In July 2024 the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics focused its attention on busy 1-40 in and around Tiger Mountain in northwest McIntosh County. About a dozen suspects were arrested, several hundred pounds...

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Man arrested for lewd act

August 7, 2025

A 64-year-old Checotah man has been arrested after allegedly performing a lewd act in front of a woman and her two children. Randy Dwayne Stegall is charged with indecent exposure and performing a lew...

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Boating incident nearLongtown

August 7, 2025

A 21-year-old McAlester man was one of four passengers on a large tube being towed by a 2014 Master Craft on Lake Eufaula when the tube hit a wave and threw the victims off, according to the Oklahoma ...

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Where were you when Checotah got bombed?

By LADONNA RHODES STAFF WRITER

August 7, 2025

Early in the morning on August 4,1985, Checotah residents were shaken from their beds when bombs exploded and shattered windows, damaged property and rocked foundations. An accidental collision betwee...

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Dusk ‘til Dawn Blues Festival lives on

By JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR

August 7, 2025

RENTIESVILLE - Tragically, legendary blues musician and impresario, Selby Minner, died on June 10, slain at the site where she lived and performed for decades. Her husband, DC Minner, co-founder of th...

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Commissioners OK website

By JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR

August 7, 2025

Soon the public will be able to search a website that includes information about all of the McIntosh County departments. The county commissioners agreed at its Monday morning meeting to sign on the Ke...

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Democrats to meet

August 7, 2025

The McIntosh County Democratic Party will hold their monthly meeting on August 12 at 6:30 p.m. in Checotah at the Jim Lucas Public Library, located at 626 W. Gentry Ave. in Checotah.

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Eufaula City Pound gets upgrade

By LADONNA RHODES STAFF WRITER

August 7, 2025

During Whole Hawg Days and National Night Out the volunteer group Paws N Claws-Eufaula has pushed for residents to register their dogs to keep from paying a hefty fine if ever picked up by the Eufaula...