OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) will issue all March SNAP food benefits on March 1. All eligible SNAP customers will automatically receive their benefits on that date. ...

The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) is accepting nominations for awards to recognize individuals and organizations for their demonstrated outstanding commitment and dedication to child abus...

We can’t promise this will happen to every couple – but, we had a young couple who came to our theatre on their first date.  They eventually got married, moved away for a short time, moved back and ca...

Another successful Chili Cook-Off is in the books for Checotah.   On Saturday, Feb. 23, the 12th Annual Chili Cook-Off sponsored by the Heartland Heritage Museum and Gallery went off without a hitch. ...

We are starting a free 13-week seminar and support group March 6. It is designed to help you rebuild your life. We know it hurts and want to help. We meet Wednesdays 6-7:30 p.m. at the Checotah First ...

Students in the Social Workers Association of Tomorrow (SWAT) chapter at Northwestern Oklahoma State University recently completed their Compassion in Action Dignity Drive for the fall semester. SWAT ...

Feb. 18 – Feb. 25 T racie Sonnie Begaye: fail to stop at stop sign S amantha Wells: fail to pay taxes due to state/ expired tag J uvenile: furnishing tobacco to minors/possession by minor J uvenile: p...

Ellen: What did the gorilla say when it dialed the wrong number? Ennis: “King Kong ring wrong!”

RENTIESVILLE – A representative of Hunter’s Home Living History Site, located in Park Hill, Cherokee County, will present a special program at Honey Springs at 1 p.m., March 2. Hunter’s Home is the on...

To make these and other parts of our infrastructure work, we depend on engineers. Engineering is using imagination and technology to solve a problem. Some engineers figure out how to build things. Oth...

Book your tickets now for this Night of Comedy with Mike the Hypnotist, scheduled for Saturday, March 2 at Legacy On Main Street. This is a dinner-theater event, with dinner at 6:30 p.m. and the show ...

A little rainy weather didn’t slow down folks as they gathered for a barbeque feast at the Checotah Chamber of Commerce’s annual banquet Saturday, Feb. 19 at the First Free Will Baptist Church Family ...

Friday, March 8, is the last day to apply for voter registration in order to be eligible to vote in the April 2 elections, McIntosh County Election Board Secretary Carole Hayes said announced. The fol...

BX to meet March 5 Chapter BX of PEO will meet at 4 p.m., Tuesday March 5 in the Sharpe House with Louise Slinkard serving as Hostess and Janie Underhill Co-Hostess. Karen Martin-Harding will be the A...

Black History Month The black experience during the Great Migration became an important theme in the artistic move known first as the New Negro Movement and later as the Harlem Renaissance. The Great ...

Pat Smith Age: 80 Status: Widowed Number of children: 2 Grandchildren: 7 Careers: I worked as a sawyer with a skinner saw in a pile-wood mill. Hobbies: Reading my Bible Accomplishments: I raised two b...

Members of the Beta Sigma Phi Chapter XP3902 met Feb. 12 at the home of Gretchen Payne. President Shirley Davis opened the meeting with the following members repeating the opening ritual: Wilma-tine G...

The Jim Lucas Library hosted their Books Sandwiched In on Wednesday, February 13, with guest speaker, Ronald Young, who wrote the book “The Only Boy Who Danced.” Young, with a 33-year career in theate...

Most Americans have several different choices for communicating with one another: mobile phones, email, landline phones, the postal service. Today, computers, cell towers and satellites are essential ...

F.A.I.C. Volunteer Fire Department Breakfast Breakfast every third Saturday of the month serving scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, biscuits and gravy, pancakes, French toast, milk, juice an...