Two trapping technicians continued trapping quail through November, one at Packsaddle Wildlife Management Area and the other at Beaver River WMA for the first half of the month. Both technicians trap...

115 Years Ago: Checotah Times • September 7, 1906 Couldn’t Stay Away When once a person has lived in Checotah it is difficult for them to be satisfied anywhere else. Such is the case with Z. Culver. M...

Felony Cases Joshua Ross Billings: knowingly concealing/ holding/receiving stolen property Claude Henry Hannahs: assault with a dangerous weapon; trespassing after being forbidden Charity Mae Hayes: f...

The Chamber of Commerce announced Voss Veterinary Clinic as its Business of the Month. Voss Veterinary Clinic is owned and operated by veterinarian Mike Voss. The clinic was established in 1980 and Vo...

The first story to appear in the McIntosh County Democrat about the new coronavirus was on March 19. The front page was overwhelmed with news about COVID-19, which was becoming a pandemic. Since then...

Santa (Kevin Vogt) delivered meals through Feeding All Souls on Christmas Day to Checotah PD.

In observance of New Year’s Day, Peoples National will be closed on Friday, Jan. 1.

Feeding All Souls went curbside this Christmas with Rev. Samuel L. Cunningham and his members of Mt. Olive Star Missionary Baptist Church. This was their 12th year to feed in McIntosh County.

District 2 County Commissioner Tim Pendley plans to catch up on a lot of fishing he’s missed out on since taking office 12 years ago. “I’ve missed fishing a lot,” he said. Now, he probably will miss g...

Congress last week passed a COVD-19 relief package in the amount of $900 billion. An organization called endocrin.org, a national organization dedicated to improving public health, issued the followin...

After she filed a McGirt Motion, charges were dropped last week against a 37-year-old Eufaula woman who was alleged to have had sex with her teenaged male babysitter. Ashley Dawn Langford was charged ...

114 Years Ago: Checotah Times • August 31, 1906 Charged With Assault George James and John Brown and George Raleigh were arrested Tuesday afternoon at Summit, five miles south of Muskogee, by Deputy M...

Please call 918-689-3342 for reservation by 9 a.m. Jan. 4-8 Monday, Jan. 4: Pork chop w/ gravy; rice pilaf; peas; roll; cookie; milk Tuesday, Jan. 5: Roast; mashed potatoes w/ gravy; glazed carrots; r...

Coronavirus watch – 12/29 The Health Department released the following COVID-19 numbers on Tuesday, December 29. According to Tuesday’s figures, the total number of positive cases cross the state is 2...

Coronavirus watch – 12/28 The Health Department released the following COVID-19 numbers on Monday, December 28. According to Monday’s figures, the total number of positive cases cross the state is 282...

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...