The Checotah High School Art students painted their second mural last week. This one is located at the First Baptist Church in their children’s area. COURTESY PHOTO

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...

An enrolled member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and member of the Indian Brotherhood (IBH), a prison-based gang active in Oklahoma, pleaded guilty last week to charges related to two separate ho...

Jade McPeak recently won the Junior Miss Oklahoma Regency International in Edmond and also won most photogenic. COURTESY PHOTO

115 Years Ago: Checotah Enquirer • July 12, 1907 Checotah Growth Continues As evidence that Checotah is making a quiet but substantial growth, one needs only to point to the fact that since Jan. 1, 19...

Rentiesville resident Shela Bell recently won a “Flip Your Fall ‘’ vacation from the Today Show with hosts, Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager. The Today Show has been shining a spotlight on deserving vi...

A “Community Breakfast” to benefit the Checotah Masonic Lodge #86 will take place this Saturday, October 30 from 7 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. The hot, homemade breakfast will consist of eggs, sausage, pancakes...

Honey Springs Battlefield will host a fun-filled educational weekend for families and students alike. The biennial reenactment of the Civil War Battle of Honey Springs will take place at Honey Springs...

Danny Turner, 47, was convicted of first degree murder in 1992 for the 1991 poisoning death of his Checotah High School classmate Jerry Don Hurst. He was sentenced to life in prison. On Nov. 1 Turner ...

The Heartland Heritage Museum & Gallery was recently gifted with an interesting oil painting of Lake Eufaula, painted prior to the construction of the dam over 50 years ago. The 4x8 foot artwork has a...

The City of Checotah will have lighted Christmas trees down South Broadway again this year. Anyone interested in grabbing a tree to decorate to advertise their local business or organization needs to ...

The Class of Checotah received a Superior Rating at OSSAA Regional Marching Contest last week as did the Checotah Color Guard on their ensemble. Then on Saturday Band Director Ashley Hackler and band...

The Heartland Heritage Museum and Gallery hosted a very successful pumpkin painting party on Oct. 23 and staff was thrilled with the turnout for the event. Local children steadily poured into the gal...

The Checotah Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting in Veterans Park on Thursday, Oct. 21 for Southern Picnic Co. Owners Heaven Rogers and Jessica Thomason served refreshments and held drawi...

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and local activists are reaching out to the public to walk and show their support for the victims of these serious crimes. WISH Outreach Advocate Kendra Ru...

Eufaula Little League held their homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 9 against Savannah. All three teams won their games. From left to right: eight and under escort Zenus Dowling and attendant Jessica Ermis;...

As Oklahomans pull end-of-year holiday decorations out of the attic and put away tools in sheds, they may end up disturbing some of their smallest neighbors. Exclamations of surprise will be uttered. ...

115 Years Ago: Checotah Enquirer • July 5, 1907 War with Japan Possible? A number of American warships are now on their way to the Pacific coast. It would appear to a man up a tree that after all ther...

When children dress up as their favorite superhero, princess or goblin, they likely have one thing on their mind: trick-or-treating and filling their candy container to the brim. But parents know ther...

Lane Graham, 23, of Porum, was seriously injured in a single-vehicle accident Friday, Oct. 15 on New Texanna Road, four miles south and four miles east of Checotah. According to the Oklahoma Highway P...