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November 6, 2025
1st Annual Checotah Turkey Dinner Drive underway

Several local businesses are rising to the call to help raise enough money to feed at least 200 families (with up to five family members) this year. Their goal is $10,000, and they would like to do more if possible.

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Correction:
November 6, 2025
In Em Luetkemeyer’s story for Oklahoma Watch we had a typo in the headline. It should be MASTO vs MASTRO. We apologize for the typo.
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How a hole and mule named Sal changed our world
Opinion
How a hole and mule named Sal changed our world
By ? r. James Finck, USAD History Professor 
November 6, 2025
---------------- current events through a historical lens------------------------ I’ve got an old mule and her name is Sal, Fifteen years on the Erie Canal. Two hundred years ago this week, the “Big D...
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Your life is now
By if£.tìDonrUi^jxoAji 
November 6, 2025
Your life is now, so enjoy it before you lose it or it passes you by Seize the day and make it everything you ever imagined. Get up early. Read His Word and meditate on His goodness as you savor that ...
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Food assistance, health coverage key factors in shutdown
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Food assistance, health coverage key factors in shutdown
By JOE DORMAN OICACEO 
November 6, 2025
ADVOCACY OKLAHOMA CITY - I want to start by saying “thank you” to the governor and Oklahoma’s legislative leaders for the commitment to allocate $1 million in state funds per week over the next seven ...
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Checotah Stories from the past
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Checotah Stories from the past
By JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR 
November 6, 2025
114 YEAR YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat Thursday, December 21, 1911 LAST CHAPTER The last chapter in the McIntosh county seat contest case was enacted at Oklahoma City Tuesday when the supreme cou...
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County Democrats to meet Nov. 11
November 6, 2025
The McIntosh County Democratic Party will hold their General Monthly Meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 6:30 p.m. This month, due to Veterans Day, our venue will be Charlie’s Chicken in Checotah. Come hun...
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Eufaula, Checotah square off in storied rivalry in 110th Meeting
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Eufaula, Checotah square off in storied rivalry in 110th Meeting
By Rodney Haltom sports EDITOR 
November 6, 2025
For more than a century, few rivalries in Oklahoma high school football have carried the tradition, emotion, and community pride of the Eufaula Ironheads vs. Checotah Wildcats matchup. This is the lon...
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The Mabel Bassett Balance wins journalism award
November 6, 2025
McLOUD – The publication The Mabel Bassett Balance, produced at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center, proudly announces that it has been honored with the Best Debut award in the 2025 American Penal Press...
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Cherokee Nation steps up to help as SNAP benefits set to be suspended
By LEAH SMITH GAYLORD NEWS 
November 6, 2025
WASHINGTON – Families are beginning to worry about how they will put food on the table as SNAP benefits are set to run out of funds on Saturday. “If it wasn’t for my mom and dad, I don’t know what we ...
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First Presbyterian Church of OKC donates Shepherd sisters’ art to Historical Society
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First Presbyterian Church of OKC donates Shepherd sisters’ art to Historical Society
November 6, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY — The First Presbyterian Church of Oklahoma City has donated approximately 300 works of art by the Shepherd sisters, who were longtime members of the congregation, to the Oklahoma Histor...
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Community Calendar
November 6, 2025
List local meetings or events in the Community Area Calendar by emailing ladonna@cookson.news, texting 479-422-4210 or dropping off information at the McIntosh County Democrat, 300 S. Broadway, Checot...
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