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By Lynn Adams Staff Writer
April 29, 2025
While vendors that choke downtown Sallisaw streets might generate the most excitement during the annual Diamond Daze festival, the free entertainment isn’t far behind. Music is a festival highlight, a...
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April 29, 2025
Pocket Park 6 p.m. Friday Ted Capps & Rude Mood Pocket Park 8:30 p.m. Friday Kanton Teen & The Penny Pickers Pocket Park 10:30 a.m. Saturday Cherokee Nation Youth Choir Stage Park 12:45 p.m. Saturday ...
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By Lynn Adams Staff Writer
April 29, 2025
There are few events that warm the heart as much as little boys and girls dressed to the nines, confidently strutting their stuff or bashfully wondering why onlookers are oohing and aahing. That’s why...
Entertainment, News
By Amie Cato-Remer Editor
April 29, 2025
The roots of Red Dirt music ran deep on April 13, as four of the genre’s most iconic acts were inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (OMHOF) during the sold-out Boys From Oklahoma concert in S...
Entertainment, Lifestyle, News
March 25, 2025
The Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame is proud to announce the induction of four exceptional musicians into the Hall of Fame. The official induction ceremony will take place during the highly anticipated 'B...
Entertainment, Lifestyle
January 9, 2025
Turnpike Troubadour R.C. Edwards and Lance Roark played an acoustic set in Vian on January 2, a free event hosted by Rustic Cantina. “I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to R.C. and Lance for...
Entertainment, Lifestyle, News
October 14, 2024
Sequoyah County's Drake Hyde will appear on NBC's "The Voice" Monday, Oct. 14, at 7 p.m. CDT.
Entertainment, Lifestyle, News
October 1, 2024
Enjoy a weekend immersed in authentic Native art as Cherokee Art Market returns to Hard Rock Tulsa Oct. 12-13. At one of the largest Native American art markets in the state, guests will enjoy the wor...
Entertainment, Lifestyle, News
September 17, 2024
A concert with Lane Lowder has been scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday, September 21, at the Vian Amphitheater. There will be food available for purchase, and attendees are asked to bring lawn chairs or bl...
Entertainment, Lifestyle, News
May 16, 2024
Zoos, aquariums and wildlife centers offer visitors the opportunity to view exotic animals without having to venture too far from home. Zoos are great places to enjoy a full day of seeing wildlife and...
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By Lynn Adams Staff Writer
May 7, 2024
When the first Diamond Daze was held in 2006, and in the years since, the annual fete has featured just about everything one would expect to find in a community festival — vendors, car show, live ente...
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Everything old is new again
May 2, 2024
History became the present on May 3 with the long-awaited opening of the Big Toy Museum, located in the old middle school. In a ceremonial ribbon cutting hosted by the Sallisaw Chamber of Commerce, ow...
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Downtown Sallisaw May 3-4
May 2, 2024
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By Lynn Adams Staff Writer
May 2, 2024
Mention beauty pageants, and what often comes to mind is a bougie, usually over-the-top production where tears of joy and astonished expressions of disbelief climax the competition. It’s a surreal wor...
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By Lynn Adams Staff Writer
April 2, 2024
As far as Marty Green is concerned, if people can’t find something to their liking on May 3-4 in downtown Sallisaw, they’re just not trying. “You name it,” the Sallisaw Chamber of Commerce executive d...
Entertainment, Lifestyle, News
November 7, 2023
AC/DC tribute band, Back in Black, is taking the stage at Lee Creek Tavern located inside Cherokee Casino & Hotel Roland for a free concert on Wednesday, Nov. 22, at 8 p.m. Hailing from the Dallas-For...
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SALLISAW LIONS CLUB RODEO
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
July 27, 2023
We’re approaching the first week of August, so you all know what that means. It’s rodeo time! The 79th annual Sallisaw Lions Club Rodeo will begin Thursday and end its three-day run that following Sat...
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SALLISAW LIONS CLUB RODEO
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
July 27, 2023
The majority of the 79th annual Sallisaw Lions Club Rodeo performers, along with rodeo announcer Matt McGee and rodeo clown Colten Ulmer, are traveling quite a distance to be at next week’s big event....
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SALLISAW LIONS CLUB RODEO
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
July 27, 2023
Rodeo clown Colten Ulmer from Mount Vernon, Mo., will get to be a part of hat trick and trifecta when the 79th annual Sallisaw Lions Club Rodeo takes the spotlight beginning Thursday. Elmer will be pe...
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SALLISAW LIONS CLUB RODEO
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
July 27, 2023
For Alabama rodeo announcer Matt McGee, it will be a “Lucky 7” as he will return for the seventh straight year to be the announcer during the 79th annual Sallisaw Lions Club Rodeo. “It’s absolutely a ...
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Ollie’s Bargain Center coming to Sallisaw
By Lynn Adams Staff Writer
June 12, 2025
The City of Sallisaw will be working with a budget of almost $91 million for the fiscal year that ends June 30, 2026, after city commissioners at their monthly meeting Monday adopted a budget for the ...
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By Amie Cato-Remer Editor
June 12, 2025
A man wanted in connection with an armed robbery and domestic battery in Fort Smith, Ark. is now in custody after being apprehended last week across the state line in Oklahoma. Kenneth M. Byrd, 28, of...
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By Amie Cato-Remer Editor
June 12, 2025
A Sallisaw man has reportedly died nearly four weeks after a serious motorcycle crash on Highway 82 near South Indian Road in Keys. The collision, which occurred on the evening of May 2, has now been ...
News
June 12, 2025
A high-flying crew, hoisted by a crane, on Wednesday completed installation of signage drawing attention to 7Brew Drive Thru Coffee, Taco Bell and Whataburger, located on South Kerr Boulevard in Salli...
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It's Friday the 13th
By Lynn Adams Staff Writer
June 12, 2025
Are you superstitious? No? Are you sure? Do you knock on wood or never open an umbrella indoors or never walk under a ladder or avoid breaking a mirror or avoid stepping on a crack in the sidewalk or ...
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