The American International Junior Charolais Association (AIJCA) stated that the 2020 AIJC Junior National Show and Leadership Conference had record-breaking entries this year with 372 junior exhibito...

Brian Taylor Gaines, 50, of Checotah, has been bound over for trial on three charges of second degree rape involving a minor. Following a preliminary hearing on July 23, Special District Judge Brian M...

The shelves at local stores are loaded with boxes of bright crayons, notebooks, pink erasers and shiny new lunchboxes. While parents know what supplies their children will need for the upcoming school...

It was a typical hot July day in Oklahoma but that made it perfect for a day on and around Eufaula Lake at the 36th Annual Whole Hawg Festival. Several locals were amongst the winners in the weekend a...

The first day of school for Checotah Public Schools is Aug. 13 with enrollment and schedule pickup being Aug. 10 and 11. It’s been five months since the pandemic and pandemonium began but Superintende...

The Jim Lucas Public Library has worked diligently throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that the children’s summer reading program still had lots of fun activities along with ample reading time....

Friday, July 31, is the last day to apply for voter registration in order to be eligible to vote in the Aug. 25 Primary Runoff Election. Persons who are United States citizens, residents of Oklahoma a...

The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) announces the expansion of its contact tracing outreach efforts to include text messaging. This will help streamline the process for contact tracers as t...

Morgan Eller appeared in court in Pittsburg County on July 24 asking for a reduction in his $75,000 bond. Instead, Associated District Judge Brendon Bridges upped the bond to $150,000. The increase co...

Checotah High School will be having initial drug testing for students in extracurricular activities on Thursday, July 30 in the CHS Event Center. To limit the number of students in the building at the...

Online learning may be part of the “new normal” for many schools, and Oklahoma State University professors are helping teachers prepare. The “Teach from Anywhere: Using Digital Tools to Support Seamle...

The Kiowa Tribe chairman is facing impeachment over his handling of COVID-19 relief funds by the tribe’s seven member legislative branch. The mishandling of the money, distributed by the federal gover...

With more and more changes coming everyday because of the COVID-19, we as citizens should embrace them. Oklahoma reported 1,200 new cases over the weekend, making the total of positive cases over 30,0...

Elevation normal, water 87 and clearing. White bass good on slabs around channels and main lake. Blue and flathead catfish good on cut bait, grubs, shad, and worms around main lake, river channel, and...

Mason Brillo, 22, of Henryetta was killed Thursday, July 23 when the vehicle he was driving ran into the rear of another vehicle on the Indian Nation Turnpike at mile marker 95. According to the Oklah...

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

Parenting in a pandemic presents unique challenges for families. Planning for a return to school in mid-August looms large as the start date of the 2020- 2021 school year approaches. Concerns about st...

114 Years Ago: Checotah Times • March 23, 1906 Checotah Times • March 23, 1906 COLORED PEOPLE REVOLT Say they will not accept the frame school building but want a two-story brick G. S. Chenaut, presid...

July 20-24 Felony Cases James R. Colbert: falsely personate James R. Colbert: falsely personate another to create liability; petit larceny (misd) Jerry L. Dupree: possession of firearm after convictio...

At one time the Kiowa were known as mountain people, as they migrated south through mountain ranges until they were forced to settle in Oklahoma and Texas. The Kiowa was one of the final nomadic tribe...