Mayor Daniel Tarkington is still taking care of city business and in his spare time tearing up the race track, a hobby he’s enjoyed since the age of 15. During the 2019 race season he has already comp...

Truman Dixon: Exceptional in the classroom and on the court Truman Dixon has been long noted as a successful basketball coach. He was exceptional in the classroom and on the court. I had the opportun...

The Board of Regents for the Oklahoma A&M Colleges recently approved a budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 that keeps tuition flat for Connors State College. “We are grateful to the legislators...

Jamie Burke: all there traffic violations Heather Marie Bird: operate MV with license suspended; false information to officer Tory Anna Lee Crockett: petit larceny Shelby Tyanne Milo Bohuslavicky: pet...

The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission will welcome southwestern Oklahoma bank executive Rick Holder, 60, of Creta in July. Gov. J. Kevin Stitt appointed Holder to an eight-year term from Distr...

Oklahoma’s pollinator community plays an important role across our state and the Wildlife Department is partnering with other Oklahomans to learn more about one pollinator, the American bumble bee. Bu...

Elevation above normal, water 78 and murky. Blue and channel catfish good on cut bait and shad below the dam, and around channels, main lake, and tailwater. Crappie good on minnows and tube jigs aroun...

Abernathy, Wesley Lane Allen, Edmond Monte Anderson, Gary Don Bahe, Mandy Gail Bear, Larissa Leann Boyles, Daron Ray Brown, James Burnett, Cody K. Carter, Kevin Dale Coffey, David Conner, Courtney Lav...

Farmer’s Market every Saturday The Checotah Farmer’s Market is located in Martin’s Meat Market parking lot on the Northwest corner of Main and East Gentry - every Saturday 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Authority ...

Felony Cases Demarco Latrel Patterson: rape, second degree Pruitt, Kevin Ray: domestic abuse (assault & battery); disrupt/prevent/interrupt emergency telephone call (MISD) Daniel Stacey Rosson: felony...

The Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association’s 67th Annual Convention and Trade Show is scheduled for July 19 and 20. A key element of OCA Convention is the Cattlemen’s Educational Series, including four dive...

On July 11, 1656 – Ann Austin and Mary Fisher, two Englishwomen, become the first Quakers to immigrate to the American colonies when the ship carrying them lands at Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Col...

Dirt, or rather soil, falls into two interesting measurements of time in Blane Stacy’s life – eight hours and eight seconds. Rodeo and dirt – or as Stacy calls it, “Soil” – have each come to garner a ...

The OSBI is offering a $5,000 reward for information that can help agents solve the 1977 disappearance of Ronnie Odell Davis. Davis was last seen at his horse corral near the Choctaw County community ...

Learning to save for what you want in life is a crucial life skill, but it’s one too few young people are learning. That’s why for Youth Appreciation Month in July First Family Federal Credit Union wi...

The tumultuous weather of May calmed somewhat with the transition to June, the first month of climatological summer. Despite the seasonal switch, however, there was still plenty of unsettled weather i...

The Eufaula-Canadian Tribal Town will have an open house from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., Monday, July 15. The tribal town headquarters is located on 7th Street and Foley Avenue. A walk will commemorate the t...

More than 80 new laws went into effect on July 1, including one that gives state employees a long-awaited pay raise. State workers making less than $40,000 will receive a $1,500 raise, the first for s...

The Eastern Oklahoma Development District (EODD) held its 52nd Annual Awards Banquet and Annual Board of Directors Meeting at the Checotah Senior Center last Thursday, June 27. The meeting was attende...

Monday, July 15: Hamburger on a bun with fixings; red beans; potato salad; brownie; milk Tuesday, July 16: Polish sausage; cabbage; black-eyed peas; cornbread; strawberry fluff; milk Wednesday, July 1...