A Wildcat Winter Wonderland will be blowing in this December. The community is encouraged to bundle up and come out for an evening of festive fun on Dec. 13 from 5 p.m.-8 p.m. in the Checotah High Sch...

Ava Rose Johnson, 14, was presented with The NextGen Under 30 Leadership and Award in the performing artist category at a ceremony Nov. 12. The event was held at the Embassy Suites in Norman. Ava had...

Isabella Pitts, who will be turning 9 years old on Thanksgiving Day and is a 3rd grader at Checotah Intermediate, took her recycled newspapers and made “Izzy’s Eiffel Tower” for her enrichment program...

Checotah’s Christmas parade theme this year will be “A Disney Christmas.” The parade will be on Saturday, December 4 starting at 4 p.m. Lineup will begin at 2:30 p.m. at the Checotah Middle School. Al...

The City of Checotah recently began fixing roads inside Checotah city limits after purchasing a paver and renting a steam roller. Mayor Daniel Tarkington, who worked alongside the crew even with a bro...

There are only two days left to get your trash to the City of Checotah trash dump this week. Until November 20 there will be large dumpsters located at the city’s maintenance barns at 711 N.W. Main St...

The “Paper Ladies” from the McIntosh County Democrat challenged the City of Checotah, the Checotah Chamber of Commerce, Checotah Perk and Slice of Country to a friendly little food drive competition f...

Checotah High School students Gavire Green and Jasiah Williams, competed in the Oklahoma eSports League’s Super Smash Brothers regional qualifiers competition at Broken Arrow High School on Saturday, ...

If you would like to list your meeting or event in the Community Area Calendar, please email all the information to ladonna@cookson.news or call 918-473-2313 (office) or 479-422-4210 (cell). You may a...

McIntosh County families are on a mission to help children in need this holiday season. Checotah First Freewill Baptist Church is pleased to be the local drop off again this year. The church has parti...

Fall finally came to Checotah and some of the trees around town were absolutely breathtaking. STAFF PHOTO | LADONNA RHODES

A passenger in a 2003 Dodge truck was critically injured in a single-vehicle accident on Texanna Road on Nov. 10. The name of the victim has been withheld pending notification of next of kin. The pass...

People National Bank will be closed Thursday, Nov.25 in the national recognition of Thanksgiving Day. All its facilities will be open during regular business hours on Friday, Nov. 26.

Angel Trees will deck the halls of Peoples National Bank, Armstrong Bank, First Family Credit Union, Walmart, Sharpe’s Dept. Store and Checotah Perk. Stop by and pick your angel as early as Friday, No...

The McIntosh County Democrat and the Eufaula Indian Journal has enjoyed letting our readers win cash as they have looked through their local newspapers to find bingo numbers throughout the advertising...

The Checotah community showed up to honor and celebrate its area veterans on Veterans Day this past Thursday. First the Checotah High School (CHS) held a delicious breakfast with biscuits and gravy, ...

Was John Grant’s execution botched? Oklahoma officials say it wasn’t, but the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C., says it was worse than botched. Oklahoma D...

First Lieutenant Lowell E. Jones was born 8 February 1919 in Ada, Oklahoma. He enlisted into the Army in 1941. As a member of the 45th Infantry Division, Jones served during the invasion of Sicily on ...

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Sallisaw native Matt Wells has been fired from his position of Head Coach at Texas Tech after a heartbreaking loss to Kansas State by a score of 25-24. Tech had a14 point lead at half and squandered i...