Webbers Falls News

State budget cuts have trickled down to close the doors on Fort Gibson's senior nutrition center each Friday, program officials said.

A Webbers Falls man posted $150,000 bond Tuesday on three felony charges. Jayson Rex Morton, 39, was charged Monday and appeared in court Tuesday on two counts of first-degree rape and one count of first-degree burglary.

Webbers Falls School Superintendent Dudley Hume shows the thick, untreated walls in the schoolA's safe room, which doubles as a wrestling room.

The Sequoyah County Sheriffa s Office discovered 63 grams of cocaine and some marijuana during their first drug interdiction on Interstate 40 near Gore Wednesday.

The 2-year-old boy was buried with his favorite blanket. Justin and Jennifer Hall donate toys and clothes to the St.

Just as he slept in life, 2-year-old Drake Eli Halla s body was lowered into the ground with his beloved yellow blanket called a oeLoveya covering his cherubic face.

Muskogee County's Jon and Natalie Leeds were named Oklahoma Farm Bureau YF&R Achievement Award winner at the 68th annual convention in Oklahoma City.

At its regular meeting Monday, the Muskogee County Board of Commissioners approved: A* Holiday schedule for 2010.

Muskogee County officials should look at a countywide police force, a department that also provides law enforcement services to small towns.

The Gore and Webbers Falls Chambers of Commerce this week announced this yeara s Christmas Parade Theme, A Musical Christmas, chosen by a joint committee of both chambers.

NEWS A* Testimony begins in the first-degree murder case against Enrique Pacheco in stabbing death of 18-year-old Shelleigh PoorBear.

Webbers Falls Mayor Jewell Horne will not draw the $1,000 per month she was authorized to receive earlier this month as head of the East Central Oklahoma Water Authority, she said Monday.

Pearl McCutcheon has seen many changes during her life. McCutcheon, 86, spent her early youth north of Webbers Falls.

The Webbers Falls Police Department was forced to shut its doors Sept. 28 and now Muskogee County Sheriffa s Office deputies will be covering the town.

For folks living in the Three Forks region in our early history, travel was often dependent upon river conditions, for there were no bridges to help them get across.

I would like to alert you to a development concerning many citizens as they see their environment and property values being negatively impacted by numerous gas and oil field waste disposal operations.

Police operations in Webbers Falls have been taken over by the sheriff after CLEET informed the town it can no longer operate a police department without a police chief.

The Muskogee County Sheriff's Office took over law enforcement duties in Webbers Falls on Monday, said Mayor Jewell Horne.

NEWS * Former McIntosh County sheriff and undersheriff sentenced to federal prison.

OK, the number of local officials being charged with crimes is reaching the ridiculous.