The Checotah Police Department will be hosting a Charity Coed Softball Tournament to benefit the Justin Durrett Scholarship program on Oct. 23 at the Checotah Sports Complex. Entry fee is $200 with se...

No bones about it, Kerri Jackson, a local beautician at Unique Touch, has been bringing BOO-tiful blessings to not just her clients but the whole community since she opened her business in 2009. “I’v...

The Checotah Land Preservation Society will be hosting a Fall Celebration Ice Cream Social this Saturday, October 9 at 5 p.m. and is inviting the community to come for a great family night of entertai...

On Saturday, October 30 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. come celebrate Halloween with the City of Checotah along Gentry, west of the stoplight, and on the south side of the street and along Broadway on the east...

The Checotah High School Band, “The Class of Checotah,” won top honors at the Eufaula Invitational Competition on Sept. 25 performing “Mafia.” They won first in the preliminaries, taking home four tr...

Naturalist Holly Lackey recently tagged some of the last Monarch butterflies coming through the area this season on their way to warmer weather in Mexico. Unfortunately, there are less Monarchs this y...

Peoples National Bank will be closed Monday, October 11, 2021 in the national observance of Columbus Day. All its facilities will reopen during regular business hours on Tuesday, Oct. 12.

Appalachian Road Joe Hott and the Short Mountain Boys The Bonham Brothers Fans listen to Appalachian Road. Heartland Express

The tradition of tagging monarch butterflies began in 1940 when Fred Urquhart created a small tag that could effectively stick to the butterfly’s delicate wing. Later, in 1952, Urquhart and his wife N...

The wrong picture of Eufaula Police Officer Connor Enox and his late K9 Tito ran in the Sept. 23 issue of the paper. This is the correct photo. We apologize for the error. COURTESY PHOTO

52-year-old Margaret Casey took home the gold this past Saturday when she won 1st Overall Female at the Hometown Hope Run at the Gospel Rescue Mission. COURTESY PHOTO

Checotah Family, Career and Community Leaders of America officers, Rich Hale, Meredith Jordan and Seth Mock were ready in their red outfits as they attended State LEAD Conference at Broken Arrow earli...

Saturday was a great day for Little League Soccer at the Checotah Sports Complex. COURTESY PHOTO

Last Thursday members of the Henryetta Lions Club were guest speakers at the Checotah Lions Club, giving fresh ideas on how to grow membership, change up venues to help promote the Club and better ser...

McIntosh resident Barbara Daugherty recently got to celebrate with fellow Clansman MacGregor of Hartshorne who won the Monarch of the Games trophy for best “Clan Tent” presentation at the annual 2021 ...

You’ve got just what it takes to help your neighbors in need. Many older, low-income taxpayers miss out on credits and deductions they’ve earned. With the help of neighbors like you, AARP Foundation T...

Over three weeks since Hurricane Ida devastated large swaths of Louisiana, crews from Oklahoma’s electric cooperatives are still in the field assisting with storm restoration efforts. Several East Cen...

The Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS), in partnership with the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), has begun delivering millions of dollars in federal aid directly to families a...

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...

Tulsa native and Muscogee Nation citizen Joy Harjo, the first Native American woman to serve as the nation’s poet laureate, began her third term in September, an honor previously bestowed only once. ...