The 2023 John Perry Wickett Memorial Junior Rodeo will be held Saturday and Sunday, April 1-2, at the Sallisaw Rodeo Grounds. Sponsored by the Sallisaw Round-Up Club, All-Around buckles will be presen...

Shannon Edwards is well-known throughout Sequoyah County as the nurse with a heart. Edwards, who not only works as a school nurse for Moffett and Brushy Schools, has also spent much of her time sponso...

The 2023 John Perry Wickett Memorial Junior Rodeo will be held Saturday and Sunday, April 1-2, at the Sallisaw Rodeo Grounds. Sponsored by the Sallisaw Round-Up Club, All-Around buckles will be presen...

As a Professional Engineer, as well as being program manager for the County Improvements for Roads and Bridges (CIRB) Fund for the Eastern Oklahoma Circuit Engineering District, Monty Proctor is used ...

When disaster strikes, FEMA is a good friend to have to help pick up the pieces. In addition, FEMA pays 70% of recovery costs. Then the state reimburses the stricken community 12.5% of its costs assoc...

An accident that occurred Thursday just before 4 p.m. at East Cherokee and Jenkins Streets in Sallisaw reportedly knocked out power and DiamondNet services to several customers. Sallisaw Police office...

Former Sallisaw Mayor Julie Ferguson, 82, passed away on March 23. Ferguson and her family moved to Sallisaw in 1973. She served as a grant administrator for the City of Sallisaw before being elected ...

A Roland man incarcerated in the Sequoyah County Detention Center is facing a felony charge of forcible sodomy after allegedly forcing himself on another inmate by force and fear. Garrett J. Hurst, 37...

In a special meeting Wednesday to address additional funding to complete the Sallisaw Veterans Center, the Oklahoma Veterans Commission (OVC) approved requesting more than $21.7 million for a construc...

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma in Muskogee announced that Leiloni B. Smith, 30, of Tahlequah and formerly of Vian, was found guilty by a federal jury of eight...

Scott Chambers and Mark Walters, both seeking election on April 4 to the Indian Capital Technology Center Board of Education, were given the opportunity to answer these 10 questions. 1. Why are you ru...

Scott Chambers has announced that he is seeking election to the Indian Capital Technology Center (ICTC) Board of Education, a position he has held since August 2022. Chambers is vice president of real...

Mark Walters has announced that he is seeking election to the Indian Capital Technology Center (ICTC) Board of Education. Walters says he wants to serve in this position because he believes in the imp...

Social media, in general, and Facebook, in particular, are oftentimes as much a part of our daily lives as the air we breathe. FOMO, the fear of missing out, prods us to obsession as we keep checking ...

For the second year in a row, the Moffett Peer Mentoring group has won the T-shirt design contest which promotes learning about students with disabilities. Two students who are part of the Student Wel...

Arkansas Air National Guard Lt. Col. Casey Eubanks will be the first to tell you “I’m not a recruiter.” That’s not how the top brass sees it, however. “But the director of the Air National Guard came ...

Just Folks Allen Lee of Sallisaw comes from a long line of people who have owned businesses in Sallisaw. Lee, 35, however, enjoys spending time with his family which led him to give up his job doing p...

Sallisaw Mayor Ernie Martens this week signed three proclamations declaring National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week, Vaping Awareness Month and Alcohol Awareness Month in Sallisaw. On hand for the signin...

Brushy School Superintendent Jared Armer said someone wrote graffiti on the school’s storm shelter and the incident is currently under investigation. Armer, who has served as superintendent of the sch...

A Dallas, Texas man who shot two others on Interstate-40 near Vian in July 2021 is scheduled for a 9 a.m. March 23 jury trial sounding docket, according to Sequoyah County court records. Lee B. King, ...