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Zayd Taariq receives prestigious Gates Scholarship
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Zayd Taariq receives prestigious Gates Scholarship
By JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR 
May 14, 2025
Senior Zayd Taariq received the coveted Gates Scholarship this year. The scholarship is given annually to a few select students around the nation. In 2023, Zayd’s cousin Avery Armstrong, a Political S...
Council hires interim city manager
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Council hires interim city manager
By JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR 
May 14, 2025
The City Council, at a special meeting Wednesday night, May 7, hired Larry Mitchell as the new Interim City Manager. His salary will be $60 an hour for 30 hours per week with a weekly travel per diem ...
Press release about fire department
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Press release about fire department
May 14, 2025
This is a press release issued Friday, May 9 by Interim City Manager Andrea Weckmueller-Behringer, who resigned effective May 9, to accept a job in Ennis, Texas. She had high praise for French: “The C...
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County GOP News
By LYNELLE MEDLEY CHAIRMAN 
May 14, 2025
We have been busy with the OKGOP State Convention where we have completed the circle in cleaning up the GOP by taking back the entire central committee. We are excited for the future and would love to...
City plans to hire full-time fire chief
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City plans to hire full-time fire chief
By JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR 
May 14, 2025
Volunteer Fire Chief Chad French, who has been chief for two years and a volunteer firefighter for 26 years, was informed Friday, May 9, during a meeting with the city manager that the city is looking for a full-time paid fire chief. According to a memo by Interim City Manager Andrea Weckmueller-Behringer, whose final day on the job was May 9, the city will pay the new chief $60,000 a year, plus b...
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Eufaula and Checotah compete with best in State Track and Field Meet at Plainview High School
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Eufaula and Checotah compete with best in State Track and Field Meet at Plainview High School
By Rodney Haltom sports EDITOR 
May 14, 2025
The Eufaula Ironheads and Checotah Wildcats competed in the OSSAA State Track and Field Meet Friday at Plainview High School. Eufaula Freshman Leah Green finished 11th in the state in the Class 4A 200...
Atwood chooses trade school over college
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Atwood chooses trade school over college
By JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR 
May 14, 2025
Many students graduating from high school Friday are at an uncertain crossroads in their lives. An uncertain future awaits them. College? Military? Trade school? Time off to roam and see where their d...
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Zayd Taariq receives prestigious Gates Scholarship
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Zayd Taariq receives prestigious Gates Scholarship
By JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR 
May 14, 2025
Senior Zayd Taariq received the coveted Gates Scholarship this year. The scholarship is given annually to a few select students around the nation. In 2023, Zayd’s cousin Avery Armstrong, a Political S...
Council hires interim city manager
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Council hires interim city manager
By JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR 
May 14, 2025
The City Council, at a special meeting Wednesday night, May 7, hired Larry Mitchell as the new Interim City Manager. His salary will be $60 an hour for 30 hours per week with a weekly travel per diem ...
Press release about fire department
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Press release about fire department
May 14, 2025
This is a press release issued Friday, May 9 by Interim City Manager Andrea Weckmueller-Behringer, who resigned effective May 9, to accept a job in Ennis, Texas. She had high praise for French: “The C...
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County GOP News
By LYNELLE MEDLEY CHAIRMAN 
May 14, 2025
We have been busy with the OKGOP State Convention where we have completed the circle in cleaning up the GOP by taking back the entire central committee. We are excited for the future and would love to...
Fishing tourney cut short
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Fishing tourney cut short
May 14, 2025
Drenching overnight rains sent the lake up even more than it already was, which turned the Toyota Series Presented by Phoenix Boats Southwestern Division event on Lake Eufaula into a one-day tournamen...
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Senior Center menu
May 14, 2025
Please call for reservation by 9 a.m.: 918-689-3342 MAY 19 – MAY 23 Monday, May 19: Chicken tenders; tater tots; mixed fruit; sliced bread; cookie Tuesday, May 20: Chili mac; tossed salad; buttered co...
Sports
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Nearly 5,300 Special Olympics athletes to compete
May 14, 2025
STILLWATER – Nearly 5,300 Special Olympics Oklahoma participants took over the campus of Oklahoma State University on May 14-16 to compete in the annual Summer Games. Special Olympics Oklahoma staff, ...
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Checotah football program hosts mattress fundraiser
May 14, 2025
Checotah High School Football is excited to announce it will be hosting a one-day Mattress Fundraiser on Saturday, May 17 from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. For one day only, Checotah High School will be transform...
Rylee McNeill battles weather and competition at State Golf Tournament
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Rylee McNeill battles weather and competition at State Golf Tournament
By Rodney Haltom sports EDITOR 
May 14, 2025
Rylee McNeill of Eufaula had to battle the harsh elements and stiff competition Monday at the OSSAA State Golf Championship at the Shawnee Country Club on Monday. With rain and winds blowing across th...
And it comes to an end
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And it comes to an end
May 14, 2025
And another year of high school sports comes to an end as the last of the state tournaments take place. As sports fans we have had a fantastic year. We saw Eufaula girls go to the state fast-pitch tou...
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No. 2 seed Sooners to host regional at Love’s Field
By Rodney Haltom sports EDITOR 
May 14, 2025
ESPN announced the NCAA Tournament Regional brackets, and the Sooners will host at Love’s Field in Oklahoma City. Despite the regular season SEC championship and Co-Championship win, the committee gav...
Big 12 Board Conference
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Big 12 Board Conference
May 14, 2025
Big 12 Board Chair and Baylor President Linda Livingstone announced that the Big 12 Board of Directors has voted to extend Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark’s contract for an additional three years th...
Lifestyle
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God’s delays are not necessarily denials!
May 14, 2025
God’s delays are not His denials. Even when you’re hurting, God is still working. He’s still working in this world right now through Jesus for our salvation, and He offers eternal hope to you today. T...
Problem-solving agency will be Friends’ speaker’s topic
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Problem-solving agency will be Friends’ speaker’s topic
May 14, 2025
Oklahoma Home and Community Education, Inc. identifies issues facing local communities and searches for information to help solve their problems. Michelle Marston, OHCE educator, will explain the step...
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Can one person really make a difference?
May 14, 2025
Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” So, when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and h...
LECC men sing a Mother’s Day surprise.
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LECC men sing a Mother’s Day surprise.
May 14, 2025
LECC men sing a Mother’s Day surprise. Most had never sung on stage before, but inexperience didn’t keep them from booming out their baritone, tenor, and bass voices in the Lake Eufaula Christian Chur...
April birthdays
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April birthdays
May 7, 2025
Jeannie Russell and Sondra Coughlin Eufaula celebrated their April birthdays recently during the Senior Lunch program at the community center.
Pies and politicians on display at fundraiser
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Pies and politicians on display at fundraiser
April 2, 2025
Pies and politicians on display at fundraiser
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FLEAS April Meeting
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FLEAS April Meeting
May 14, 2025
The theme of our meeting was “Spring is finally here!” Our hostesses Barbara Johnsen, Becky Harris, Cindy Troop and Kim Dawson brought on the flowers. The door prizes were lovely pots full of fresh, b...
Same song
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Same song
May 14, 2025
Same song, second verse. An elderly male driver hit the gas instead of the brakes and turned L.A.K.e Country Diner into a drive-in restaurant Sunday, May 11. The same event occurred on Thursday, Sept....
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Sign up for the Golden Eagle Poker Run!
May 14, 2025
Sign up for the Golden Eagle Poker Run! There’s a little more than a month left until the Golden Eagle Poker Run on the beautiful waters of Lake Eufaula — and this year’s theme is Pirates & Parrots. T...
Hold your peace to keep your peace
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Hold your peace to keep your peace
May 14, 2025
Another Mother’s Day has come and gone and though it didn’t go quite the way I had planned, God already knew what the day would hold so He prepared me with my pastor Holly Furtick’s sermon “Hold Your ...
For the Children
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For the Children
By JOE DORMAN OICA CEO 
May 14, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY – As May is upon us, it is the time of year when the state budget picture begins to clear as state legislators put the finishing touches on the budget for the fiscal year beginning on Ju...
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