Columns & Opinions, Sports
CAGE NOTES
By BY DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
March 14, 2024
Last week put an end to the 2023-24 local high school basketball season, and I’m glad I made it through. It was good to see at least one of our 16 teams, the Roland Lady Rangers, make it to state, but...
Columns & Opinions
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler 
March 14, 2024
We are each magnets that draw to us the things we need or holds them back with our disbelief. Surprising as it is, money is there, love is there, position is there, but what are we attracting to us wi...
Columns & Opinions, Sports
DIAMOND NOTES
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
March 12, 2024
Just because it’s Spring Break next week doesn’t mean the high school baseball teams are taking the week off. There’s still some baseball going to be played on the diamonds, but some of the action isn...
Columns & Opinions, Health, News
March 12, 2024
You may be hearing about the bed bug infestation in Paris and getting ready to cancel upcoming travel plans. After all, no one wants to bring them home. Bed bugs can be very difficult and expensive to...
Columns & Opinions
CHIEF CHAT
By Chuck Hoskin Jr. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief 
March 12, 2024
As a tribal nation, we become stronger when our citizens pursue training and education – and even more so when they use those skills and knowledge to serve Cherokees through our tribe’s government and...
Columns & Opinions, Religion
BLACKGUM CHRISTIAN UNION CHURCH
By Pastor Reggie Kelley 
March 12, 2024
FEEL THE TOUCH OF MASTER’S HAND! YOU CAN’T HELP BUT LOVE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WHEN YOU ACCEPT HIM AS YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR! HE GAVE HIS ALL SO THAT WE CAN HAVE ALL! Matthew 9:18-26 18While he spake th...
Columns & Opinions, Sports
SPRING SPORTS
March 7, 2024
Now that we’re in the first full week of March, high school baseball now is in full swing. While some teams started the season last week or this past weekend, most everyone else is starting up this we...
Columns & Opinions
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler 
March 7, 2024
No one fools like we fool ourselves. There’s hardly a subject about which we are more ignorant than ourselves. Our thoughts run wild, fed by five senses which takes their information from outside sour...
Columns & Opinions
SALLISAW TOPS
By Billie Anthony 
March 7, 2024
Today we had a wonderful group of 13 ladies weigh in. Annette had our best weight loss of 1.6 pounds. Weigh to go Annette! We drew from the Two Bit Bowl and Jerry was the lucky lady to win the quarter...
Columns & Opinions, Sports
CAGE NOTES
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
March 5, 2024
It’s always nice to end a season at the state tournament, and the Roland Lady Rangers will do just that. However, they were hoping to bring home the gold ball as a state champion Saturday night. • • •...
Columns & Opinions, News
CHIEF CHAT
By Chuck Hoskin Jr. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief 
March 5, 2024
I know that the Cherokee Nation is a wonderful place to live. The people, culture and natural beauty of our 7,000-square-mile reservation in northeast Oklahoma make me proud to call it home. As more C...
Columns & Opinions, Religion
BLACKGUM CHRISTIAN UNION CHURCH
By Pastor Reggie Kelley 
March 5, 2024
GOD IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF CONFUSION! TODAY’S WORLD HAS FALLEN FOR THE AUTHOR OF CONFUSION! LISTEN TO GOD IN ALL THINGS! 1 Corinthians 14:1-33 1Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rath...
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DIAMOND NOTES
February 29, 2024
Let me welcome you first off to the spring high school baseball/slow-pitch softball version of Diamond Notes. With March arriving today, so, too, will all the spring high school sports. Here are the s...
Columns & Opinions
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler 
February 29, 2024
Feelings are strange things. Some of them lead us to do exactly the wrong things. Some are purposely designed to draw us away from the right path. Our thought is to try whatever it is and if it is wro...
Columns & Opinions
SALLISAW TOPS
By Billie Anthony 
February 29, 2024
We had a fun day today with 14 members in attendance. Virginia and Barbara had our best weight losses. Way to go Ladies! Keep up the great work! Donna’s name was drawn from the Two Bit Bowl so she won...
Columns & Opinions
By OKLAHOMAWATCH.ORG 
February 29, 2024
State Sen. Tom Woods’ public comments last week sent shockwaves through the state. Speaking at a legislative forum sponsored by the Tahlequah Area Chamber of Commerce, Woods, R-Westville, responded to...
Columns & Opinions, Sports
CAGE NOTES
By BY DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
February 27, 2024
After the 2023-24 basketball seasons came to an end for the Sallisaw Black Diamonds and Lady Diamonds in last weekend’s Class 4A Regional Tournament, both Sallisaw coaches had a chance to think about ...
Columns & Opinions
CHIEF CHAT
By Chuck Hoskin Jr. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief 
February 27, 2024
Cherokees are one people, and all Cherokee Nation citizens deserve equal treatment under our laws and the laws of the United States. That firm commitment to equality is clear in the Cherokee Nation Co...
Columns & Opinions, Religion
BLACKGUM CHRISTIAN UNION CHURCH
By Pastor Reggie Kelley 
February 27, 2024
JESUS CHRIST WILL LEAVE THE NINETY AND NINE TO RESCUE THE ONE LOST SHEEP! ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS CALL ON HIS HOLY NAME! Luke 15:1-3 1Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him...
Columns & Opinions
By EDITOR Amie Cato-Remer, Amie Cato-Remer Editor 
February 22, 2024
I spent my Valentine’s Day visiting my grandson Cooper in Illinois. As a Lala (my grandma name), I enjoy being able to spend time with him and then leaving the mess behind for his parents to clean up....