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...

TOPS 0737 Sallisaw had another great meeting Monday. We had 15 in attendance. Brenda H had our best weight loss of 5.1 pounds. Way to go, Brenda! She received a little magnetic book page clip. Our nex...

I-40 Classic Week has finally arrived. It will be a two-day event with five games Thursday at Central High School and five games Saturday at Roland. This used to be known as The Central Lady Tigers Sh...

LOOK TO JESUS CHRIST FOR ALL THINGS! JESUS CHRIST MUST BE FIRST IN ALL OF OUR LIVES. HE LOVES ALL MANKIND SO MUCH THAT HE GAVE HIS LIFE SO ALL MANKIND CAN GO TO HEAVEN AND BE WITH HIM FOREVERMORE! IS ...

To hear the truth and to tap wisdom and knowledge is priceless-that is our privilege. Never admit defeat if true wisdom has not been sought for and used. None of us would know right from wrong if we t...

Wow, Wow, Wow! What a great Labor Day meeting we had today! We had 17 in attendance with a net loss of 14 pounds! Our best weight loss was achieved by Lynda. Great job Lynda. We celebrated with our be...

Artificial intelligence defines a "crunchy" person as someone who embraces an environmentally conscious, holistic lifestyle, often involving natural products, organic food, alternative medicine and li...

After Sallisaw, Gore and Gans opened the 2025 high school football season with Zero Week games last week, all eight schools will see their high school football teams in action tonight. Three big games...

Change is not a new concept to Cherokee Nation. Our tribe’s history shows all-toomany examples of adapting to a changing world. Whether it’s social, geographical or technological, Cherokee citizens ar...

Monday, we had 14 TOPS and one KOPS in attendance. Our Thinner Winner this week was Cindy with a loss of 2.8 pounds. Great job, Cindy! This week our chapter had a net loss for the fifth week in a row....

Mother Nature truly reigned, or more like rained, supreme last week. Rain washed out all of the Aug. 25 games as well as two games on Aug. 26 — Gans at Webbers Falls and Muldrow at Stigler. On Thursda...

DO YOU LOVE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST? LOVE JESUS CHRIST AS BEST AS “HE” KNOWS YOU CAN! JESUS CHRIST IS THE LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH! BE BORN AGAIN! 1 Peter 1-25 1Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the str...

How appropriate is it that just as the 2025 high school football season is commencing that one of our own was honored Tuesday afternoon. Former Vian Wolverines and Oklahoma State Cowboys player Kenyat...

Of the four seasons, fall is and will always be my favorite time of the year. With the deer archery season looming to begin Oct. 1, the time to pen what I consider to be the most important topic is at...

We are known for our ability to over complicate things. Sometimes it seems that if something is complicated, it is more important. A dress designer who was famous for her elegant dresses that had no r...

There may not be too much softball played this week. If one has been looking at the weather forecasts, rain really is prevalent this week. Mother Nature already won out Monday as all softball games we...

JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN AND FATHER GOD! JESUS CHRIST MUST BE YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR! I’M HONORED TO KNOW JESUS CHRIST AS MY LORD AND SAVIOR! John 14:1-31 1Let not your heart be troubled: ...

Cherokee Nation stepped forward again this summer to meet a need too great to ignore: feeding hungry children. During agrarian times, communities faced “hunger season” between planting and the harvest...

With some of the harebrained ideas that get tossed around every year, there’s understandably a joke bandied about in political circles that Oklahomans are safer when their legislators are not in sessi...

Getting home wasn’t as easy as I thought it’d be. Storms were on the horizon and flights were already getting cancelled. My daughter Sydney’s friend, Deidra, and her family left the airport with no is...