Pandemic or not, the Rev. Samuel L. Cunningham and his members of Mt. Olive Star Missionary Baptist Church will continue their 12th year of Feeding All Souls Christmas Dinner from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at...

With lights flashing and sirens blaring, lawmen escorted youngsters into town for a Christmas shopping spree during the annual Shop With a Cop program. There were Eufaula and Checotah police officers...

The Chamber of Commerce went virtual this year with their Shop Checotah and went live on their Facebook to call out the winners of their Christmas drawings. There were lots of $50 and under prizes giv...

114 Years Ago: Checotah Times • August 24, 1906 SPIVEY MURDER MYSTERY Case Is Being Heard Before Judge Schofield at Muskogee This Week Mac Alford, as the accomplice of Robt. Davis, Tuck Thornberry and...

Senate Appropriations Chair Roger Thompson, R-Okemah, said the entire state should be proud after Amanda English, a former police chief who is now an educator at Metro Tech in Oklahoma City, was named...

Rafael Torres, 35, the Oklahoma City man accused of kidnapping and terrorizing a local tow truck driver last year, has pled guilty in federal court. Torres was charged in McIntosh County District Cour...

The Oklahoma National Guard, in cooperation with the Oklahoma State Department of Health, successfully delivered the first COVID-19 vaccines on Tuesday, Dec. 15. Two teams of Guardsmen collected the v...

When Dale Kimberlin, aka Santa, asked Delaney Davis how she got so and say “from Jesus.” Kimberlin went on to say that she was the first one pretty in just five years, he was surprised and didn’t expe...

The candidate filing period for the Hanna School District Board of Education Special Election is December 28, 29 and 30, 2020. Candidate filings for Board Position #4 will occur at the McIntosh County...

The Oklahoma Master Gardener Program is a volunteer training program designed to help county extension centers meet the demands for consumer horticulture information. Master Gardeners take classroom t...

The bill to rename the downtown Oklahoma City post office after a civil rights icon is headed to the president’s desk. The Clara Luper Post Office Building bill, originally introduced in the House of ...

State Auditor & Inspector Cindy Byrd publicly released on Dec. 16 the work papers supporting the questioned administrative costs and improper transfers of funds to California related to her recent aud...

The Carolyn Watson Rural Oklahoma Community Foundation is currently accepting grant applications for projects in McIntosh County communities with a population less than 6,000. Designed to improve the ...

The 2020 holiday antlerless deer gun season will open in specific zones on Dec. 18 and run through Dec. 31. This year, new rules are in place to increase hunting opportunity and bag limits for antlerl...

Felony Cases Maisy Mae Martin: making a telephone bomb threat Emeory Joseph Phillips: bail jumping Joshua James Rowell: making a telephone bomb threat Robert Dean Smith II: assault & battery with inte...

Connors State College, in cooperation with Indian Capital Technology Center, held the annual pinning ceremony for 13 graduates of the Physical Therapist Assistant Program and 15 Graduates of the Occup...

Lawmen from around the county and beyond drove in a procession Friday morning from Eufaula to Checotah to honor the late Dewayne Hall, 63, chief deputy of the McIntosh County Sheriff ’s Department. H...

Elevation normal, water 50 and turbid. For current elevation conditions go to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website at https://www.swtwc.usace.army.mil/EUFA.lakepage.html . Blue and flathead catfis...

Peoples National to close for the holidays Peoples National Main Bank and Drive Thru Bank will close at noon on Dec. 24. All branches will be closed for Dec. 25 on Christmas Day. On Dec. 26 the Drive ...