A cinderblock building in the 200 block of E Street, between Belt and Broadway, stood for 77 years a few hundred yards from the shore of the cove on Lake Eufaula. For the first 25 years or so it was E...

The Order of the Purple Heart will be presenting the Town of Vernon with its purple heart sign at a ceremony and dinner at 1 p.m. on Feb. 22. For dinner, you must RSVP prior to the event to have your ...

Eufaula voters stayed away from the polls in droves Tuesday, Feb. 11, when they had been asked to decide whether to approve a one-cent sales tax increase to help pay for street improvements. There are...

SKIATOOK – It was a family affair at the Feb. 15 groundbreaking ceremony for Veterans Park. The Park is being created in honor of the late Justin Lambillotte, who was a soldier when he died at Fort Ho...

JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR Sam and Linda Johnson moved to Eufaula in 1967 where Sam worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engi- neers as a hydro elect powerhouse mechanic. For a time, they lived in a rent...

The following is taken from a handwritten transcript by Ernest “Ernie” Hrdlicka and provided to the IJ by Ernies grandson, Mark Warren. Ernie’s Store and Market was built in 1948, after World War II. ...