The following Amended Administrative Order was issued on Friday, March 27, canceling jury terms until May 15. The Order states: “On March 12, 2020, the World Health Organization designated the COVID-1...

Checotah Middle School Principal Jason Donathan has announced a Distance Learning plan that will comply with recent mandates by the State Board of Education. “We will use multi avenues to deliver inst...

Two separate traffic accidents on Interstate 40 near Tiger Mountain Road occurred within 30 minutes of each other on a rainy Thursday afternoon. The first one took place 17 miles west of Checotah at a...

Associate District Judge Brendon Bridges sometimes thinks outside the box. When the Oklahoma Supreme Court restricted the courthouse to employees, subject to some narrowly tailored exceptions, he move...

With recent rainfall and warmer weather, fishing for crappie and white bass is heating up statewide. These species are beginning their annual spawning routines by moving into shallower water, making t...

Health officials are warning rural communities to be just as cautious as more densely populated areas in their response to the spread of COVID-19. A lower rate of person-to-person transmission of the ...

McIntosh County Treasurer Betty Whisenhunt has announced that all penalties and interest on the second-half payment of the 2019 ad valorem tax payments will be waived if remitted to the County Treasur...

A Bristow man and wife were killed in a two-vehicle accident near Hitchita Sunday. Erwin and Janet Christensen, both 62, were pronounced dead at the scene from multiple injuries. According to the Okla...

While offices are closed to the public, all wildlife management areas, fishing lakes and shooting ranges of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, along with all Oklahoma State Parks day-us...

Felony Cases Karl Benjamin Schenk: burglary in the first degree; aggravated assault and battery Tracy Lee Tindell: falsely personate another to create liability Misdemeanor Cases Kal-El Antwoine Beckh...

Trevor Dodd of Eufaula proudly shows this fine catfish he caught in the Mill Creek area. 

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

Worldwide, as of Monday, March 23, the number of new coronavirus (COVID-19) infections soared over 365,000. More than 16,000 have died across six continents. The World Health Organization has estimate...

These are the latest figures, as of March 24, for the OCVID-19 pandemic in Oklahoma. COVID-19 Oklahoma Test Results Positive (In-State) 106 Positive (Out-of-State) 2 Negative 735 PUIs Hospitalized 25 ...

Due to the COVID-19 crisis at hand, many area organizations are canceling their meetings and events. Therefore the newspaper will delay publishing the Area Calendar until further notice. Check with yo...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Tulsa District announced Friday that campgrounds around Lake Eufaula are closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The closures affect Corp campgrounds in...

The Checotah Chamber of Commerce announced the Business of the Month for March is the McIntosh County Democrat. Publisher and owner Jeff Mayo is a third generation newspaper publisher. Mayo has served...

Iris Park of Checotah jumped out of a perfectly good airplane from 14,000 feet in Houston on Thursday, March 4. Of course, Iris and her tandem jump instructor had a good parachute and they made a sta...

LaDonna Rhodes | The Democrat The First Assembly of God under the direction of Pastor Bud Shackelford helped 162 families at their monthly food drive on March 20. The food distribution is from 2 p.m. ...

Georgia Thornhill, 96, was born Feb. 9,1924, to Robert & Della Clark. Georgia and husband, Ray, had five children. The first child being Linda Satter, who was born on Georgia’s birthdate in 1945. Geor...