Vinita Daily Journal

12/13/2024

Music Instructor Tony Nash leads his Will Rogers Elementary choir students in carols at RCB Bank's Christmas Open House on Thursday.

12/13/2024

12/13/2024

VHS choir Christmas performance with soloists Gage Klokke and Alixx Herman.

12/12/2024

Photo by Denton Thomason
Expecting mom Baylie Fisher, whose baby girl Blue is due to be born in January, introduces her to Santa Claus at BancFirst.
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12/12/2024

Photo by Denton Thomason
Six-year-old Brantley LeForce enjoys meeting Santa and Mrs. Claus at BancFirst.
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12/12/2024

Photo by Denton Thomason
Seven-year-old Alice Chapman tells Santa and Mrs. Claus what she wants for Christmas when St. Nick visited BancFirst.
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12/12/2024

Cherokee Nation District 11 Tribal Councilor Kendra McGeady hosted a District 11 gathering for community members at the Vinita Health Center and was joined by Cherokee Nation Speaker Mike Shambaugh, former State Rep. and Tribal Councilor Chuck Hoskin Sr., Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Shella Bowlin and Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr., to present a $5,000 donation to the Eastern Trails Museum, accepted by incoming museum director Stephanie Gilbert. The donation was from the Dist. 11 Tribal Council Special Projects fund distributed by McGeady.
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12/12/2024

Photo by DJ Johnson
The seniors on this year’s Welch High School basketball team include (from left): Collin Damann, Zarek Euran, Cash Tucker, Mason Clinton and Brody Mills.
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12/12/2024

Photo by Ashley Greer
Carter Praytor fires a jumper in the Hornet eighth-graders' 25-21 loss to Oklahoma Union in Oologah's season-opening tournament
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12/12/2024

HORNET AND LADY HORNET HISTORY
Photo by David Burgess
Chris Randolph gives the first-place trophy a kiss as Tim Ownbey looks on after the Hornets' 65-46 victory over Quapaw in the championship game of Vinita's tournament in December 1984. It was the Hornets' first regular season tournament title in six years. Randolph and Rick Reel each scored 18 points, with David Johnson adding 14 and Danny Brown nine. “We've got a little depth and we just need to keep working and trying to improve,” said coach Jimmie Sooter. “Boy, I'm real pleased – 4-0. What else can you say?”
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12/12/2024

Photo by Ashley Greer
Trevor McGee pushes the ball upcourt in the Hornet eighth-graders' 25-21 loss to Oklahoma Union in Oologah's season-opening tournament. The Hornets will return to action next Monday when they host Skiatook.
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12/12/2024

Photo by DJ Johnson
Camy Etzel (left) and Nicole Feltynowski are the seniors on this year’s Welch High School basketball team.
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12/12/2024

A $25,000 Community Partners Grant was recently presented to the Vinita Hornets Diamond Club to help make improvements to their softball field for school teams and community youth teams, including a new scoreboard, better outfield fencing, and improvements to the batting cage. The donation was made during a recent Cherokee Nation District 11 community meeting hosted by Dist. 11 Tribal Councilor Kendra McGeady for community members at the Vinita Health Center. At the presentation included Vinita Softball Coach Jim Zickefoose and members of the Vinita Hornet Ladies Softball team, District 10 Councilor Melvina Shotpouch, Speaker Mike Shambaugh, Secretary of State Shella Bowlin, former Okla. State Rep. and Tribal Councilor Chuck Hoskin, Sr., Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr., Vinita Schools Supt. Gabe Schmidt, and Councilor McGeady.
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12/12/2024

Photo by DJ Johnson
Welch’s Camy Etzel eyes the basket while Bluejacket’s Hali Nair (20) plays defense during the Lady ‘Cats’ win over the Lady Chieftains last Friday in Welch. The Lady ‘Cats routed Oaks 62-33 on Monday in the first round of their own Kenneth Sooter Invitational Tournament.
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12/12/2024

Photo by Christmas in Vinita Committee
A total of 90 bikes for boys and girls were given away in free drawings at the Christmas in Vinita morning event Saturday at the Craig County Community Center at the fairgrounds. The bikes were donated by local families. The CIV committee thanks the county for use of the building and all those who volunteered and came out to the events.
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12/12/2024

Photo by Angela Thomason
Helena Agri-Enterprises of Welch won the Christmas Tree Award for Best Decorated Float featuring a 62-foot trailer with large hay bales and semi drenched in colorful lights at the 2024 Vinita Christmas Parade of Lights in downtown last Thursday.
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