An additional municipal water source for Sallisaw is—or should be—on the mind of every Sallisaw resident. Recent developments demand it, and I think city commissioners did the right thing last Thur...
My Two Scents Worth Judging from my phone calls, I am not the only Sequoyah County person worried about the effects of the salt water disposal well proposed on Brushy Mountain. * * School house parking lots a...
My Two Scents Worth “City considers water options” was the six-column banner headline on last week’s Your TIMES . Hopefully, the city has invited King Soloman to lend his wisdom to these deliberations. From what I’v...
My Two Scents Worth de Queen Gracie, a while back, suffered mightily from a hit by a 24-hour bug. Only this bug lasted about five days. What went down, came right back up. Plenty of other malicious bugs came right al...
My Two Scents Worth First off, a big “Thank You” goes to you and That Other Reader for your comments, both written and verbal, regarding last week’s column about the proposed drilling waste well north of Sallisaw and...
My Two Scents Worth I couldn’t believe my eyes; they were playing gricks! The last time I talked with Sallisaw City Manager Bill Baker, he sounded like he was all fired up and hotter than a junk yard dog just waiting...
My Two Scents Worth In writing last week’s column item about the forthcoming Weedpatch Day near Lamont, Calif., I got to visiting with Doris Weddell, head pitchwoman, docent, guide, collector of artifacts, etc., etc...
“Cannon to right of us,* Cannon to left of us*…” And so on goes “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Rudyard Kipling. Rudy should have been in Sallisaw last weekend, where the cannon surrounded...
Fathers’ Day has come and gone, and a fine day it was, too! Allyn and Shannon and their respective spouses showed up early, and with gifts—even after all the grief I gave them whilst they were gro...
As they used to say at Blue Ribbon Downs (and will say again), “The horses are in the gate!” Filing for political candidates ended a week ago this past Wednesday and we now have a full listing of p...
Joyce Ross Cole took the time to drop us a card and note. The note saith: “…I would like to take all these Republicans out of Edmond.” That’s because Joyce, shortly after the death of her husband, ...
In the last possible hour of the last possible day, Oklahoma legislators cobbled together and presented to Gov. Henry the semi-balance of a state budget for fiscal 2011. They were faced with a gap...
Last week, I went into a rant over Sen. Jim Inhofe’s impromptu harangue and out-of-hand rejection of Elena Kagan as President Obama’s nominee to sit on the Supreme Court. Then, I left out my punch...