Chouteau News

Hannah Kinnison and her great-aunt Sue Miller organize donated items for families in Lake Crest and the Chouteau-Mazie school district as part of Kinnison's work toward a Girl Scout Gold Award.

MESTA board members were given a proposed 2010 budget by Director Rick Langkamp during their November meeting.

Chouteau School Board voted to approve the 2009-2010 budget, raises for support personnel and received reports on lower reading test scores during their meeting Thursday night.

Community Action Resource & Development is seeing the closure of two Mayes County senior nutrition sites.

A date for the Angel Tree Poker Run has been set and organizers are gearing up for the event that will benefit the Locust Grove First United Methodist Church Angel Tree Project.

Chouteau Pound Pals hosted "Pups in the Park" in Chouteau Oct. 3 to raise funds for the organization.

The Grand River Dam Authority plans to increase its base rates 11.95 percent on Jan.

Chouteau is one step closer to having a public library after action taken by the Board of Trustees at the town meeting Monday night.

Voters head to the polls Tuesday, Oct. 13, to decide whether to approve an $11.4 million bond issue for Chouteau-Mazie Public Schools.

Construction is beginning this week on the Brushy Creek bridge on 428 Road southwest of Chouteau.

Chouteau-Mazie Schools is holding an election for a $11.4 million school bond. The special election is Tuesday, Oct.

A former teacher and coach at Chouteau is now charged with child sexual abuse. Prosectuors in Mayes County filed the charge Monday against 26-year-old Zachary George of Sapulpa.

An assistant football coach and teacher at Chouteau has been charged with sexual abuse of a 17-year-old female student.

A Green Country coach is charged with sexually abusing a student. It happened in Chouteau, where Zachary George was hired earlier this year.

Tensions mounted at the Chouteau Town Hall meeting Monday night between Mayor Jerry Floyd and Chouteau Pound Pals spokesman Don Barbee.

Hitch up the ponies, it's time once again for Chouteau's annual Black Buggy Days.

A two-week shut-off of water at two locks on the Arkansas River Navigation System will have no impact on traffic at the Port of Muskogee, but failure to repair the locks could devastate port traffic in the long run, a port official said.

The county sold three pieces of land Monday in a special commissioners' sale. Mayes County Treasurer Demecia Franklin said a 10-acre tract sold for $3,600. The 10 acres, located east of Locust Grove, is landlocked.

Chouteau's Elementary School Principal was charged with three counts of rape by instrumentation Wednesday.

A Mayes County educator is being held in the Mayes County Jail, accused of sexually abusing a child.