Operational challenges, financial deficit force closure of Talihina Veterans Home

Due to inclement weather forecast for Saturday, April 19, the Easter celebration at Price's Chapel Baptist Church has been rescheduled for Saturday, April 26. Food, fellowship and the egg hunt for age...

Amid a particularly lengthy Sallisaw Board of City Commissioners agenda Monday, which included its share of “housekeeping” functions such as approving purchase orders, city ordinances and construction...

Northeastern Health System Sequoyah, which just last December was drowning in debt to the tune of about $14 million before Sallisaw City Commissioners stepped in to buttress the city hospital with a $...

You see them at almost every turn. Food trucks, or mobile vendors, are usually the center of attention at community festivals, and have become permanent fixtures at Iola Avenue and Cedar Street as wel...

Two years ago, CARDS Holdings Inc. tendered an unsolicited offer of $21.5 million to purchase the Sallisaw Municipal Landfill facility and the city sanitation collection services. After more than a mo...

A popular bumper sticker from the 1970s issued the ultimatum: “America, Love it or Leave it.” For Sallisaw Mayor Ernie Martens, he has a similar sentiment about the community he serves and loves. So i...