GOD’S HELPING HANDS TO HOLD ANNUAL CHRISTMAS BOX GIVEAWAY God’s Helping Hands will hold its annual Christmas Box Giveaway from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 22 at the First Free Will Baptist Chur...

Arvest Bank continued to be a top U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) lender within its footprint in 2018, based on loan production. That’s based on data for the SBA fiscal year ending Sept. 30. ...

The Checotah Chamber of Commerce will once again give prize money to the winners with the best floats in this year’s Christmas parade.   Shelter Insurance - Dusty Duvall Agency, is sponsoring the 2018...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Farmers are harvesting the first crops of industrial hemp grown in Oklahoma since World War II. Botanac, an Oklahoma industrial hemp grower and producer, partnered with local farmers a...

Mike Broyles, Canadian Superintendent and current president of the Organization of Rural Oklahoma Schools (OROS), recently presented Sen. Roger Thompson, R-Okemah, with their Rural Legislator of the Y...

Veterans Day, once known as Armistice Day, was first celebrated on November 11, 1919, the anniversary of the end of World War I. In 1928, the United States Congress passed a resolution for Armistice D...

It’s that time again. Time for making sweet treats for the holidays like peanut brittle and other delicious candies. So who has this candy making down to an art - Pam Essex does. She’s been making bat...

TULSA – Five Muscogee (Creek) citizens represented the Nation as 2018 recipients of the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development “Native American 40 Under 40” award during the Oct. 3...

The Checotah Chamber of Commerce will have a welcome station set up on Saturday, Nov. 24, from 9:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. know which local merchants are participating in Shop Small. Get your passport stam...

Ake, Roger M. Allen, Edmond Monte Allen, Justin Lee Almeida, Louis Ernest III Anderson, Teddy Bruce Arnold, Charles Wayne Arnold, Larry Glen Bahe, Mandy Gail Baker, Jerry Beal Banks, Jr., Thomas Leo B...

Nov. 5, 2018 – Nov. 12, 2018 Luis Sibila-Flores: operate MV without valid DL Michael Wayne Tyler: petit larceny Case Lee Ellison: Keith Mattison Jeremy Chad Buckmaster: no seatbelt Elerdashvili Sulkha...

OKMULGEE - Some may remember or have heard stories of when electric cooperatives brought electricity to rural homes and farms. What a difference it made in the lives of those who had been overlooked o...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Five individuals and one organization recently received the Kirkpatrick Honor for Animal Well-being. Becky Switzer of Ground Zero K9 Emergency Training Center; Dr. John Otto and Lee Fa...

FELONY CASES L aura Rae Buchanan: distribution of CDS; possession with intent to distribute; unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia (misd) T oni Cook: two counts of assault and battery upon a polic...

OKMULGEE – As the single most preventable cause of disease and premature death in the U.S., commercial tobacco use prevention remains at the forefront throughout the country. Each year, on the third T...

Statistician with U.S. Census Bureau The “War to End All Wars” came to an end on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918. A year later on Nov. 11, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson procla...

Amanda Davis was only 18 years old when she joined the Air Force on January 13, 1999, knowing this was the only way she could afford a college education.   “I came from a military family and lived in...

Breastfeeding support group to meet Friday The Mother to Mother Breastfeeding Support Group will meet from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 16, at the Checotah Health Department. The meeting is fre...

The Checotah Roughriders’ annual toy drive is now underway until Dec. 1. The proceeds benefit McIntosh County elementary school students, including those in Checotah and Eufaula. Drop off unwrapped to...

  The 2018 Shop Checotah Christmas Give-Away program, sponsored by the Checotah Chamber of Commerce, is now underway.    For the past several years, Shop Checotah has been giving away thousands of dol...