empty swimming pool summer fun gives way to heat pretty water waits FEW SWIMMERS WERE ENJOYING THE SALLISAW CITY POOL ON THURSDAY MORNING. POOL STAFF REPORTED A SLOW WEEK SO FAR AND SPECULATED IT MAY ...

I follow both the St. Louis Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals. I am both Christian and Capitalist. Yet I feel no cognitive dissonance, that mental discomfort that results from the simultaneous hold...

— Sequoyah County Times, July 11, 1947 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the July 6, 1997, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) –About 50 persons packed Gore City Hall...

The last time I wrote, I told you about my dad telling me not to plant anything you couldn't eat. Dad said there was no purpose in planting flowers and if I remember right, it was because his goa...

On July 4th, 1776, our Founding Fathers daringly took steps of defiance to separate the colonies from the British monarchy and tyrannical government. They had a vision of a nation governed by the peop...

It‚s the music of the Western mountains, and this is the only time we get to hear it. It has a hollow sound, as though a flute were a foot thick and 12-feet long, and it is the lonely call of the bull...

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THE IS NO BETTER FRIEND THAN ONE WHO WOULD LAY DOWN THEIR LIFE FOR YOU!!! JESUS CHRIST DID THIS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD FOR THE FIRST ADAM TO THE LAST ADAM!!! HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN YOU MAY KNOW!!! PRAISE...

Your TIMES welcomes letters to the editor on any subject of public interest. We do not publish letters concerning commercial disputes or those containing personal attacks. Because of space limitations...

So, when I went to prep this week‚s column, I went looking to see what I had on hand so I wouldn‚t have to do a lot of shopping. I found more smoked sausage than I needed to keep on hand, plenty of pa...

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...

Independence Day. I like this patriotic holiday. It makes me think the men and women whose visions created our country. They issued a document on or about July 4, 1776. Remember they didn't just ...

— Sequoyah County Times, July 4, 1922 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the June 29, 1997, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) –Blue Ribbon Downs will owe the city of...

There is nothing quite like the smell of a food on the grill to celebrate the start of summer in Oklahoma. Although many people enjoy cooking over the gas or charcoal grill, they need to keep in mind ...

It's been called the sport of kings, and Blue Ribbon Downs was its palace in Oklahoma. But for more than a decade, peasants and serfs metaphorically ruled the one-time horse racing kingdom. When ...

— Sequoyah County Times, June 27, 1947 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the June 22, 1997, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) –Two unidentified Cherokee Nation marshals...

There are lulls in living that make us afraid we have lost contact. Must we start all over again? No, lulls are little spaces where we can survey our situation and see more clearly what we must do to ...

On a hot June day in 1932 my grandparents, Wheeler and Florence Mayo, first published the Sequoyah County Times. While it was their first publishing venture, my grandfather’s family printing history w...