After 30 years with the McIntosh County Sheriff’s Department, Kitchen Supervisor Valerie Brazelton retired last week. Brazelton, 67, started working at the department as a dispatcher/ jailer in 1992 w...

April is Esophageal Cancer Awareness month and Amanda Davis, a resident of Carlton Landing, wants to remind everyone to get regular checkups when dealing with heartburn issues. Davis was diagnosed in ...

It was a beautiful day as students, parents and friends of Ms. Kittie Dishman’s class and Ms. Jamie Burleson’s class at Marshall Elementary School gathered to release blue balloons in recognition of ...

Felony Cases Justin Derick Breshears: endangering others while eluding/att. to elude police Billy Joe McCarter: distribution of CDS – including possession with intent to distribute; unlawful possessio...

Early voting begins Thursday, March 31, for voters in McIntosh County who are eligible to vote in the following elections: • Graham-Dustin School District General Election (Board Member Position No. 2...

The annual Community Easter Egg Hunt will be on Saturday, April 9 at the Checotah Sports Complex. Parents are encouraged to bring their children to a fun-filled event and enjoy inflatables, games, pri...

Oklahoma State announced the hiring of Kansas City’s Jacie Hoyt on Sunday as the Cowgirls’ eighth coach in program history. Hoyt, 34, has spent the past five seasons with the Roos program, amassing an...

Rep. Kevin West, R-Moore, today convinced enough of his House colleagues to send to a vote of the people a proposal that could permanently end Daylight Savings Time in Oklahoma. House Bill 3146 would ...

Ake, Roger M. Albright, Austin Michael Allen, Edmond Monte Allen, Justin Lee Almeida, Louis Ernest III Anderson, Gary Don Anderson, Teddy Bruce Arnold, Charles Wayne Bahe, Mandy Gail Baker, Jerry Beal...

Honey Springs Battlefield will host Debra Goodrich on Thursday, April 7, at 7 p.m. for a special presentation about the life and career of John Ritchie, a former Union army officer of the Second India...

An Indian Taco Sale will be held Saturday, April 2, from 12-4 p.m. at the Hanna High School Cafeteria, featuring a taco, dessert and drink for $8.

The Lake Eufaula Association was founded in 1971 with the purpose of promoting tourism to Lake Eufaula and the surrounding region, including five counties: McIntosh, Haskell, Pittsburg, Okmulgee and M...

Jerri Reaves loves the history of Checotah so she recently crocheted this 1872 Checote Switch table runner that will be on display at the Katy Depot. STAFF PHOTO | LADONNA RHODES

The Oklahoma Tax Commission recently released city sales tax collection figures that primarily represents local tax receipts from January business. The monies they reported this period represent sales...

114 Years Ago: Checotah Enquirer • March 27, 1908 ROBBERS CAUGHT There seems but little doubt within the minds of officers now but that the men who robbed the Hoffman bank on last Thursday are now in ...

Christopher Wallace Covington, 41, of Ada, has entered a guilty plea to one count of theft concerning programs receiving federal funds, according to The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern...

The McIntosh County Sheriff ’s Department will offer the following for sale by public auction on the publicsurplus.com website. The auction will begin April 7 and conclude on April 21. A link for publ...

I learned last week that the Muskogee Veterans Affairs Medical Center has been targeted for closure by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (USDVA). This was a surprise to me and other lawmakers, i...

It was incorrectly reported in the March 17 issue of the newspaper that Dustin Ian Scott Lusk was charged on March 7, 2022 with three misdemeanors, including reckless driving. The mistake was due to a...

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