If you would like to list your meeting or event in the Community Area Calendar, please email all the information to ladonna@cookson.news . You may also call 918-473-2313 or mail the information to McI...

Checotah High School Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) are back to work. This year, FCCLA is Out of This World with a space theme. The chapter has 25 members including 7 officers...

In 1997 Jimcy McGirt was convicted in Wagoner County District Court of first degree rape by instrumentation, lewd molestation and forcible sodomy, involving a four-year-old girl, and given two 500-yea...

The deadline to request absentee ballots by mail is approaching. Applications must be received by the County Election Board no later than 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7. McIntosh County Election Board Secret...

America lost another hero, Aug. 17, 2021. Doug Dowdy was a Vietnam veteran who served his country in the Navy from 1966 to 1974. Plumb Theatre will be accepting donations at our Gospel Show on Friday,...

Armed with the news that booster shot guidelines are on the horizon, tribal nations in Oklahoma continue their fight against COVID-19 in a state with a low vaccination rate as another surge pushes hea...

The annual McIntosh County Fair is being held at the fairgrounds in Eufaula, from September 1-4. The following schedules are set: Wednesday, Sept. 1 1-6 p.m. - 4-H, Kids Corner, & Open Class Exhibits ...

One of the state’s most anticipated Blues Festivals returns this weekend, a year after the event was greatly curtailed due to the COVID-19 virus. The 31st annual Dusk ‘Til Dawn Blues Festival is comin...

Thursday, Sept. 23 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Checotah Community Center, 611 N. Broadway. Free admission, food, drinks and door prize drawings. Come out and showcase your local services and products. Le...

Benjamin Hartley Moody, 28, Eufaula, has been arrested on allegations of assault and battery with a deadly weapon and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle following the stabbing of a woman on Tuesday, ...

Oklahoma Festival of Ballooning was hosted at Hatbox Field in Muskogee this weekend after taking a year off due to the pandemic last year. This was the third time for the City of Muskogee to host the ...

Dozens of property owners in the scenic Porum Landing area on the northeast side of Lake Eufaula turned out Friday to object to an application by Quality Stone Quarries of Stigler to begin a mining o...

The Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS), along with the Friends of Honey Springs, helped to host The Battle of Honey Springs film premiere which highlighted history on a whole new forum on August 28. D...

A local bar in Checotah, Monroe’s Club, remembers 13 service members who lost their lives during an attack in Kabul’s airport on Thursday, August 26. Thirteen bottles surround an empty table because, ...

A Eufaula policeman stopped traffic at Main Street and Foley Avenue Thursday, Aug. 19, as law enforcement officers from around the county escorted the late OHP Trooper Carl Douglas Meineke, 77, of Euf...

Three Oklahoma educators whose dedication to public education has benefited hundreds of thousands of Oklahoma students have been selected for induction into the prestigious Oklahoma Educators Hall of...

The polling place for McIntosh County Precinct 460316 has been changed. Voters who live in Precinct 460316 formerly voted at the Elm Grove Baptist Church. Effective immediately, the new polling place ...

Felony Cases Billy Ray Murray: feloniously pointing a firearm James Alan Stilwell: endangering others while eluding/attempting to elude police; knowingly concealing/holding/receiving stolen property M...

August 30 - September 3 • Monday, Aug. 30: Roast beef; carrots/potatoes; wheat roll; chilled pineapple; cookie; milk • Tuesday, Aug. 31: Baked ham; candied sweet potatoes; green beans; wheat roll; amb...

Callie Mae Cox, aka “Miss Mae,” had lots of dreams to reach for when she graduated from Checotah High School in 2017. But when she finished up this past May with her Bachelors in Science in Early Chil...