D.C. & Selby Minner’s 33rd Rentiesville Dusk til Dawn Blues Festival is just around the corner. Don’t miss over 50 bands on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 1, 2 and 3.

Yellow “bug lights” won’t chase insects away from your porch, but a switch from white lights to a yellow glow can mellow out the summer months for both you and the local insect population. Lights driv...

Lake Dog, at 117 N. Main St., has launched its annual campaign to support the McIntosh County Sheriff ’s Office and the Eufaula Police Department’s K9 Units. “Our local K9 Officers have limited funds ...

Oklahoma CareerTech adult education and family literacy students who earn their GED diplomas may now be able to earn college credit for their scores at Oklahoma State University Institute of Technolog...

Stories from the past 114 Years Ago Checotah Enquirer Friday, August, 1909 Land Sale Opens in Four Months Guthrie – It probably will be four months before the first buyer of Oklahoma’s vast land sale ...

Highlights importance of mental health for students The relaxing days of summer are coming to a close, and the backto- school season will be here soon. As students, teachers, administrative personnel ...

Plumb Theatre is still bringing top notch music to our area. Aug. 19 will be no exception. T.C. Love, named New Male Vocalist of the year, Country Division in 1996, will be on our stage with his band,...

McIntosh County GOP will be meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 15, at the Checotah Library at 6:30 p.m. A representative of Congressman Josh Brecheen will be there to give an update as well as to answer any que...

Honey Springs Battlefield will host a special presentation by Kerry Jones, current National Park Service Guide at the Pea Ridge National Military Park in Arkansas, about the history of the 1st and 2nd...

Iris Park has been chosen as the Artist of the Month. She loves many mediums but is partial to watercolor and oils. Several of her creative pieces are on display in the Heartland Heritage Museum and G...

Free kids cuts for Checotah and surrounding areas One day only Friday, August 11. Totally Free Appointment Only Grades PreK-6th Come with clean and dry hair Hair by Kristen Andrews Tres Beaux Salon & ...

WASHINGTON - Tyler James Stephens, 25, of Checotah, Oklahoma, was sentenced Aug. 3 to 14 years and eight months in prison for cyberstalking, video voyeurism, burglary, attempted burglary, attempted se...

A benefit for Shop With A Cop Buck Crombie, of Checotah, thinks highly of law enforcement officers and especially their Shop With A Cop program held every year before Christmas. Law enforcement office...

Checotah Therapy pups, Lila and Tucker, are back at school and ready to help students for another school year. Following the pandemic it became evident that students needed additional emotional suppor...

The Heartland Heritage Museum and Gallery (HHMG), located at 116 N. Broadway in Checotah, recently received two new donations to go into their collection of memorabilia of two local talents who oddly ...

Checotah Perk has been chosen as the Business of the Month by the Checotah Chamber of Commerce. The Perk has owned and operated by Aaron and Jamie (Spindle) Hilbert since 2021. The coffee shop is loca...

Eufaula High School graduate and Mvskoke citizen, Vanessa (McIntosh) Vancleave, recently released a touching memoir that was 20 years in the making. The book, “Hearing AIDS: How a Deaf Child with AIDS...

McIntosh County District Court Report Felony Cases Jayme Lynn Gill: child abuse; threaten to perform act of violence Bobby Ray Judy: domestic assault & battery by strangulation Barry Lynn Klotz: felon...