Long-time businesswoman and Checotah City Treasurer Bettie Hays passed away Sunday. She served as the City Treasurer for almost 35 years, owned the Checotah Tag Agency for 43 years and operated World ...

Last week, the Eufaula Indian Journal and McIntosh County Democrat introduced to readers a new column, “A Few of My Favorite Things,”  by Katina Holland. The column focuses on the culinary art of baki...

Michelle York has been named District Teacher of the Year. This is her second major honor this year. Earlier she was named Teacher of the Year at Marshall Elementary York earned her Degree in Elementa...

Sisters on the Fly visited the Little Turtle RV and Storage located south of Checotah on Highway 69. Then they stopped in Checotah to shop the antique stores, the jewelry store and eat at some of the ...

Ashley Funburg  of Checotah was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society.   Funburg  was initiated at ...

Eufaulans Donna, Elizabeth and Bucky Phelan won first and second place in the 80th Annual Okeene Rattlesnake Roundup, held April 26-28. The Phelans had the biggest snake, at 77 inches, winning $150 a...

McIntosh County Deputy Casey Torix lost his work partner last week, K-9 Bruno. “It feels like a hole, I’m missing my partner,” Torix said. Bruno died unexpectedly on Monday, April 22. They were togeth...

The City of Checotah and the Checotah Chamber of Commerce are fighting dirty to keep their hometown clean. Yes, they are working hard with several youth groups, city council members and city workers t...

Chapter BX of PEO to meet Chapter BX of PEO will meet Tuesday, May 7 at 4 p.m. in the Sharpe House with Holly Coleman serving as hostess and Renza Sharpe serving co-hostess. The meeting is entitled “W...

One of those charged with burglarizing a home near the community of Stidham while the homeowner was about to be buried has pled guilty. Rachael Elise Ash, 30, and Adam Mark McGirt, 25, were arrested o...

Felony Cases Corey Lee Bicknell: knowingly concealing stolen property; driving with license cancelled/suspended/revoked L uis Aaron Brown: driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol ...

Disasters can alter a family’s normal routine with little warning. Neighborhood streets can be closed because of large debris or downed power lines. Suddenly, an area that is a familiar part of a norm...

Ake, Roger M. Albright, Austin Michael Allen, Edmond Monte Allen, Justin Lee Almeida, Louis Ernest III Anderson, Teddy Bruce Arnold, Charles Wayne Bahe, Mandy Gail Baker, Jerry Beal Baumann, Staci Ray...

(This the second story in a series about prisoners serving juvenile life without parole in Oklahoma.) The house on a country road in Seminole County where 90-year old Myrtle Ruby McGehee was brutally...

Raymond Thomasson, 54, of Henryetta was killed Thursday, April 25, when the motorcycle he was riding left the roadway and struck a tree, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. The OHP reported that...

Dates set for CHS Alumni Checotah High School Alumni, mark your calendars for June 28-29. For more information contact: Imogene Duvall 918-473-2781 disciple coming to Faith Church Disciple is coming M...

OKLAHOMA CITY – For the first time, Oklahoma educators and families will be able to review their students’ state test results as early as May. The Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) anticip...

The Highway 9 Community Center in Longtown is in danger of closing. Dena Sponsler, or runs the facility, says it may have to close by July or August if money doesn’t start coming in. “Congressman Rand...

Anthony Michael Grant, 35, of Porum, and Nichole Kay Hamm, 33, of Quinton, were charged on Oct. 29, 2018, with drug trafficking. Hamm, a former special education teacher at Canadian High School, is aw...

The April 23 FLEAS meeting was called to order by our President Joy Hamilton in our new facility at the Methodist Church. The hostesses for the meeting were the Red Hat Ladies, who were wearing bright...