MAY 4 - MAY 11 • David Alan Pinner: speeding; operate MV in manner not reasonable and proper • Glendon Lee Beasley: trespassing • Newton Ralph Akeen: trespassing • William E. Rineheart: public intoxic...

The Checotah High School Class of 1970 will hold its 50th reunion on Saturday, June 27 at the Sharpe House, 301 NW 2nd Street, from 4:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. The reunion is on the same day as the Checotah...

Another year has flown by and it’s almost time for the Checotah High School (CHS) Alumni Reunion which has been set for June 26-27. The CHS Alumni Reunion is for anyone who attended or graduated from ...

The Checotah Methodist Mission food pantry will continue to serve the community during this coronavirus pandemic. In order to protect clients and volunteers a few adjustments have been made to the pro...

The City of Checotah would like to take this time to update everyone on our opening of local businesses. On Friday, May 1, local businesses were permitted to begin to reopen using Gov. Stitt's guideli...

Marshall Elementary named Chelsea Simmons their Teacher of the Year. Simmons is a first grade teacher at Marshall and is in her fifth year teaching. Simmons considers herself very fortunate to have su...

Principal Cindy Frame announced Marshall Elementary will be having a drive-through kindergarten graduation parade beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, May 8. Parents and students will begin by gathering ...

A 59-year-old Checotah man was arrested last week after allegedly entering a residence near Rentiesville, demanding that a 17-year-old girl at the home give him a beer and then left with the family’s...

The Oklahoma Supreme Court and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals last week handed down their most recent joint order regarding the COVID-19 disaster. The order, issued on April 29, modified the f...

Arvest Bank ranks highest among its peers in customer satisfaction with retail banking in both the Southwest and South Central Regions, according to the J.D. Power 2020 U.S. Retail Banking Satisfactio...

It's been 15 years since Checotah's own Carrie Underwood became an American Idol and she's still going strong and impressively becoming an American icon. This seven-time, Grammy-winning singer and son...

It’s difficult to say which weather hazard should claim top billing for April. Two late season freeze events made their pitch by battering the state’s winter wheat crop and fruit orchards, primarily o...

More than 35,000 Oklahoma small businesses received loans from the federal $2 trillion stimulus plan last week, but thousands more are stuck waiting for a refill for a program that blew through $350 b...

McIntosh County Court Report Felony Cases Rodney Holder: two counts of sodomy of victim under 16 years David Brend Liles: burglary in the first degree; larceny of domestic animals; malicious injury to...

The Department of Public Safety announced reopened for services to the public on Friday May 1 at select locations. "In accordance with Governor Stitt's 'Open Up and Recover Safely' Plan, we will be br...

Oklahoma cattle ranchers had been hoping this would be a banner year. COVID-19 took care of that. Now many of the ranchers and farmers across Oklahoma and the Midwest are praying they can just hang on...

Editor’s Note: Punctuation and spelling are as it originally appeared 114 years ago Checotah Times Friday, April 20, 1906 San Francisco in Ruins An Earthquake, Followed by Fire, Has Devastated the Cit...

State Sen. Roger Thompson is urging citizens throughout Senate District 8 to step up for their communities, their counties and the entire state by completing the 2020 U.S. Census. Thompson, R-Okemah, ...

Four F-16 jets from the Oklahoma Air National Guard’s 138th Fighter Wing flew over the Eufaula Indian Health Center Friday, a salute to healthcare workers who have put their lives on the line in the b...

APRIL 27-MAY 4 • Patsy J. Hannan: trespassing; petit larceny • Austin M. Roberts: operate MV without current license; decal; affix improper decal/tag; possession of CDS • Bradford Martin Sanders: poss...