During recent weeks, local Tulsa television newscasts seem to come wrapped in yellow crime scene tape. Real crimes in which real people have been hurt. Now, I do enjoy a number of the Law & Order-...

— Sequoyah County Times, June 18, 1998 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the June 14 and 18, 1998, issues of the Sequoyah County Times) —The feuding members of the Cherok...

Talk is easy but listening is better. Our mouths have a way of getting away from us and we say things we are not quite committed to or necessarily believe. The need to say something can overpower our ...

We had eight ladies this past Monday. We had a loss of 11.3 pounds, a gain of 2.5 with a net loss of 8.8. Annette had the best weight loss for the week with 3.6 pounds lost. We are all excited about t...

LAMENTATIONS! WE IN THE WORLD AND IN AMERICA ARE BEING DESTRESSED THE DEMONIC MINIONS OF SATAN!!! BUT AS SOLOMON SAID THERE’S NOTHING NEW UNDERNEATH THE SON! AS IT WAS IN HIS TIME SO IS IT TODAY! DEAR...

— Sequoyah County Democrat, June 8, 1923 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the June 11, 1998, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —An Indian theme park in Sequoyah County...

What is it we really desire? Too often we wander about with glazed eyes and hope that “someday” we will know what to look for and expect. But someday has such vague appearances. Vagueness prints out s...

Hello again and welcome to our news. June is here and that means Father’s Day, Flag Day and summer temperatures on the rise. We will be celebrating all of these. You know us, any reason to celebrate. ...

We had seven ladies and guest Area Advocate Amanda, this past Monday. Willene had the best weight loss for the week with 1 pound lost. We started our Losers Lotto and a new surprise box this week. We ...

THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD IS OVERCOME! BE OF GOOD CHEER! ESUS CHRIST HAS DONE THE WILL OF THE FATHER AND YOU CAN, TOO! John 16:1-33 1These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended....

It took a while, but the match-ups for the 2023 National Basketball Association Finals and the 2023 Stanley Cup Finals got set earlier this week. Thanks to the Miami Heat’s seven-game Eastern Conferen...

Sap suckers, a close relative of woodpeckers, cause damage to trees that is often attributed to wood boring insects. They visit a tree many times, feeding on sap accumulated in the holes they have dri...

— Sequoyah County Times, May 31, 1973 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the May 31, 1998, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —A new Emergency Operations Plan was distrib...

We work all our lives for what we consider important. And while we work we do those things that seem necessary to keep up appearances-and if we had to we cut corners on peace and joy and time with tho...

Among the memories that stand out for me is local late-night TV from Oklahoma City in the 1970s. For those who also recall those days, you could count the number of TV stations on one hand and still h...

-Sequoyah County Democrat, May25,1923 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the May 28,1998, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —The Sequoyah County Board of Commissioners t...

Be a master of self if you want to govern right. No one can be temperamental or abusive or unfair if they are to govern right because these are things that come home to roost. Clear evidence is right ...

After negotiating throughout session, the House, Senate and Governor developed an education plan we can all get behind. To help put into perspective how significant this year’s education investment is...

We had six ladies weigh in and three guests this past Monday. Annette had the best weight loss for the week with .8 pounds lost. Treasury received the Two Bit Bowl quarters this week. We started a six...

WHEN YOU PRAY—PRAY LIKE YOU MEAN IT! BE SERIOUS WITH GOD AND HE WILL BE SERIOUS WITH YOU! DANIEL PRAYED HARD AND SO CAN YOU! Daniel 9:1-27 1In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the see...