The Checotah Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a Member Appreciation Luncheon on May 11 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. located at Veterans Park. The Chamber would like to show their appreciation to each mem...

The Oklahoma Water Resources Board adopted proposed changes to water quality monitoring standards for the Illinois River watershed in its Tuesday meeting, but one key proposed change failed to clear t...

115 Years Ago: Checotah Times • November 23, 1906 Public School Report for the Second Month To Patrons of Checotah Public School: We have repeatedly insisted that the students attend school regularly,...

FLEAS (Friendly Lake Eufaula Area Supporters) is taking applications for its annual Irene Van Sandt Scholarship of $1,000. The scholarship will be awarded to the most deserving student from one of thr...

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol announces applications for the 47th Cadet Lawman Academy are open until April 1. The free, weeklong summer program is open to students between their junior and senior years...

CHECOTAH - Marvin Keith Robertson, age 59, U.S. Army veteran and former resident of Checotah/Pierce community, passed away Saturday, March 13, 2021 in his home in Kansas City, MO. Service of Memory wi...

During the past nine months or so at least 100 defendants in a variety of criminal cases filed in McIntosh County District Court have filed motions for their cases to be dismissed based up the July 9,...

CHS sophomore Chloe Smith and CHS senior Jacob Schiebert recently competed and achieved spots in the 2021 Virtual Allstate Choirs. Smith sang in the Treble Choir and Schiebert sang in the Mixed Choir....

Volunteer artists got creative and painted scenes and sayings on rocks for a Rock Hunt to coincide with the Community Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 27 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Checotah Sport...

The Oklahoma Tax Commission recently released city sales tax collection figures that primarily represents local tax receipts from November business. The monies they reported this period represent sale...

Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame manager Harley Joe Hamm, Jr., 50, passed away from an undisclosed cause on Friday, March 12 in Muskogee and was laid to rest on Thursday, March 18 at the First Assembly of ...

Enforcing the law has never been easy. Today, it is a nightmare. The bad dream began on July 9, 2020 when the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision overturning the conviction of Jimcy M...

Democratic Party elections set The McIntosh County Democratic Party will hold its bi-annual county party elections on Saturday, April 3. The convention will be held at the Checotah Senior Citizens Cen...

The Oklahoma Historical Society has announced that the Friends of Rentiesville Blues Inc. has been awarded a $7,500 grant through the Oklahoma Heritage Preservation Grant Program. “I am thrilled that ...

At this month’s City of Checotah council meeting, council members had to declare an emergency on the wastewater treatment plant that suffered irrefutable damage in the recent below zero snowstorms tha...

About one year ago the McIntosh County Democrat stopped printing its weekly Area Calendar, which listed routine meetings held by different organizations. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, some businesse...

It is March Mayhem at the McIntosh County Democrat. Somewhere in the paper there is a hidden leprechaun. Look closely at each ad. Spot the elusive leprechaun and be the fifth caller to call the McInto...

Rebekah Burnett has been named the Checotah Middle School Teacher of the Year. Burnett is the 7th grade Math teacher at CMS and has been teaching for ten years. “I bleed blue!” Burnett said. “Not only...

On March 18,1818 – Congress passes the first Pension Act, which provides lifetime pensions authorized for veterans of the War for Independence with nine months Continental service in need of assistanc...

Felony Cases Carl Gene Morrison Jr.: feloniously pointing a firearm Civil Cases in excess of $10,000 The estate of Deborah Sue Penwell vs. OK Rock Quarries, et al Cavalry SPV vs. William R. Waid, et a...