A Few of My Favorite Things A Few Of My Favorite Things Fri, 11/04/2022 - 06:12

The general election is in less than two weeks, and I want to share important information for the upcoming election. You can vote early Wed., Nov. 2 through Fri., Nov. 4 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sat....

Our weather is always a topic for conversation. Recent talk has been of our current drought and the promises of rain. Prairie folks, including those of us who live in the Ozark foothills, are an optim...

Dear Editor, I am a white moderate Republican. I was so stunned, and now embarrassed and ashamed to have called Trump president after all the disparaging and repulsive remarks he has made against peop...

Have you been counting the minutes until election day when your neighbors can remove all those campaign signs from their lawns for another two years? Yes, these are mid-term elections, just as serious...

Social Security is often referred to as the third rail of national politics. Our small rural schools should be the third rail of state politics. The air waves have been filled with a couple of politic...

What is gender reassignment? This is the process some people undergo to try to change their gender. So if you were born as a male, you can just change to being a female! You might start out as a child...

In the 45 years since I got into the newspaper business, you‚d think I‚d be beyond the point of being surprised. Yet when I heard that the Heavener Ledger has ceased publication, I was surprised (at l...

— Sequoyah County Times, Oct. 31, 1947 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the Oct. 30, 1997, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) –The Sallisaw Municipal Authority appr...

There‚s something to be said for the brightness of day, of course, when the energies of the world improve our lot in life. But for a special time, give me the night. Give me the soft, velvety quiet of...

As we draw near to election day, I urge you to begin making your plans to participate. I encourage all Cherokees to vote, either by going to the polls on November 8 or by voting early or absentee. Thi...

STUDY TO SHOW YOURSELF APPROVED!!! WE ALL NEED TO STUDY THE BIBLE AS BEST AS EACH ARE ABLE TO STUDY!!! I DON‚T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I‚M STILL LEARNING AND WILL LEARN TILL I LAY THIS OL‚ CLAY VESSEL DOW...

— Sequoyah County Times, Oct. 23, 1997 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the Oct. 23, 1997, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) –“No,” was the vote by the Sallisaw Mu...

Recently I have felt my television programming was inundated with negative political commercials. “Do any nice folks run for political office?” Does political office only attract thieves and crooks wh...

We constantly work with ideas. After all, they are flowers of the mind that bloom for those who think. Everything we see or touch was first an idea in someone‚s mind. Even comic strips have produced f...

It is that time again for me. The annual AVMC Halloween Party my family started is this Saturday in Okmulgee at the VFW. I am super busy this week preparing for that so I went with some easy things I ...

Tornado shelters gone for good Dear Editor, Tornado shelters: now they are really gone for good. Four of them, one at each school. When someone gives you something for half price, you need to take it....

Clean, sanitize and disinfect. These are words commonly used and often interchanged, but each is a very different step of the food safety process. This interchanging of terminology can be confusing, a...

As a Member of Congress, I have the honor of nominating students from the Second District to our country‚s prestigious service academies. The decision to apply to a service academy is an incredibly pe...

— Sequoyah County Times, Oct. 16, 1997 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the Oct. 16, 1997, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) –Sallisaw Mayor George Glenn spoke out...