For the second straight season, the Sallisaw Black Diamonds, who finished at 9-3 this season, made it to the Class 4A state quarterfinals, making this class of seniors being able to enjoy both postsea...

BLESS THE LORD OH MY SOUL!!! BLESSINGS TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST!!! PRAISE GOD’S HOLY NAME!!! Psalm 34:1-22 1I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2My soul shall...

The wait is almost over. No, not for either Thanksgiving dinner or “Black Friday” shopping. The 2024 High School Basketball Preview will publish Dec. 6, which will feature season-preview stories of th...

When I think of our Cherokee Nation’s future, I often speak about unleashing the potential of Cherokee families. My administration’s work and the incredible strides of my predecessors all focused on a...

We had 12 in attendance this past Monday. We had a net loss of 3.8 pounds this week. Brenda had the best weight loss with 2.65 pounds gone! Good job, Brenda! We celebrated with six members by giving o...

Don’t wear beige and sit in the dark. Color life with pink of health, yellow of sunshine, green for fresh and new, and clear lucid white for cleanliness. Sound silly? Perhaps, but without these things...

In November 2022, Sequoyah County District Attorney Jack Thorp announced he was on a mission to save lives. Thorp issued a press release stating that he was requesting local law enforcement investigat...

Food allergy is a serious and potentially life-threatening medical condition affecting 33 million Americans. One in every 13 children has a food allergy—that’s about 2 in every U.S. classroom. And eve...

In the more than 45 years since I got into the newspaper business, youd think Id be beyond the point of being surprised. Yet when I learned that the family of newspapers which includes the Cleveland A...

Since my start at USDA Rural Development, I have made it a priority to support critical investments with our 39 Tribal partners across Oklahoma. I’m a firm believer that when fully embrace the rich he...

As we enter the state quarterfinals of postseason high school football, there are just two teams left — the Sallisaw Black Diamonds in Class 4A and the Vian Wolverines in Class 2A, Division II. Both t...

The first recorded Thanksgiving came about in the early 1600s shortly after the landing of English colonists at Plymouth, Massachusetts. These colonists were the Pilgrims, also known as separatists. T...

About 7,000 identified rare diseases impact approximately 1 in 10 Oklahomans. The Cherokee Nation’s first Rare Disease Summit on Nov. 21 marks a crucial step toward addressing the too often overlooked...

First off, let me apologize for being incorrect about the publishing date of the 2024 High School Basketball Preview in last week’s Cage Notes. It will come out Dec. 6, in which the season-preview sto...

We had 13 in attendance this past Monday. We had a net loss of 4.7 pounds this week. I had the best weight loss with 2.8 pounds gone! This week we had three members who had lost 10 pounds each, they w...

YOU HAVE NOT BECAUSE YOU ASK NOT! ASK AND YOU WILL RECEIVE! ALWAYS PRAY GOD’S WILL BE DONE! James 4:1-17 1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that wa...

Luke said to us and intended for us to know it is true, “Nothing is impossible with God.” Believe it, because it is true. In this day and age, many are trying to prove us wrong. Forget the put-down. I...

The all-district football teams for District 4A-4, District 3A-3, District 2AII-3, District 2AII-4, District AII-3 and District BII-4 will be announced next month. They likely will be drawn up this mo...

GOD OFFERS SECURITY, HE DOESN’T FORCE IT! OUR LORD AND SAVIOR GIVES IT TO ALL WHO WANTS SECURITY! THERE IS NO BETTER WAY TO HAVE SECURITY IN ONE’S LIFE! PRAISE BE TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST! 1 John 2:1-29 ...

Welcome to the return of Cage Notes, which is a weekly column during the high school basketball season that will talk about the ups and downs and ins and outs of the season as well as talk about upcom...