In a special meeting Wednesday to address additional funding to complete the Sallisaw Veterans Center, the Oklahoma Veterans Commission (OVC) approved requesting more than $21.7 million for a construc...

Scott Chambers and Mark Walters, both seeking election on April 4 to the Indian Capital Technology Center Board of Education, were given the opportunity to answer these 10 questions. 1. Why are you ru...

Scott Chambers has announced that he is seeking election to the Indian Capital Technology Center (ICTC) Board of Education, a position he has held since August 2022. Chambers is vice president of real...

Mark Walters has announced that he is seeking election to the Indian Capital Technology Center (ICTC) Board of Education. Walters says he wants to serve in this position because he believes in the imp...

Social media, in general, and Facebook, in particular, are oftentimes as much a part of our daily lives as the air we breathe. FOMO, the fear of missing out, prods us to obsession as we keep checking ...

For the second year in a row, the Moffett Peer Mentoring group has won the T-shirt design contest which promotes learning about students with disabilities. Two students who are part of the Student Wel...

Arkansas Air National Guard Lt. Col. Casey Eubanks will be the first to tell you “I’m not a recruiter.” That’s not how the top brass sees it, however. “But the director of the Air National Guard came ...

Just Folks Allen Lee of Sallisaw comes from a long line of people who have owned businesses in Sallisaw. Lee, 35, however, enjoys spending time with his family which led him to give up his job doing p...

Sallisaw Mayor Ernie Martens this week signed three proclamations declaring National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week, Vaping Awareness Month and Alcohol Awareness Month in Sallisaw. On hand for the signin...

Brushy School Superintendent Jared Armer said someone wrote graffiti on the school’s storm shelter and the incident is currently under investigation. Armer, who has served as superintendent of the sch...

Three people were transported Sunday afternoon following a collision on US-64 and 4570 Road, about four miles west of Sallisaw, according to an accident report issued by Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP)....

A Sallisaw man who was originally charged in 2021 with three felony counts of child sexual abuse, one felony count of rape first degree by instrumentation, and two felony counts of rape, first degree,...

The Roland Board of Education met on March 13 where they discussed and voted on several employment issues. The board accepted the resignations of Ag teacher and FFA advisor Myron Lockwood, Special Edu...

The Sallisaw Police Department will be conducting speed and traffic enforcement in the areas of all school zones and surrounding areas from March 22 to 29.

With the recent upheaval at the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs with the firing of embattled Executive Director Joel Kintsel amid his claims of an illegitimate veterans commission, there may b...

Governmental accounting can be difficult. While Robin Haggard and her finance department for the city of Sallisaw know their way around a balance sheet and are well-versed in debits, credits, accruals...

The Sallisaw Municipal Authority (SMA) at its Monday meeting approved spending $251,089.89 for the purchase of transformers and other materials for development of Lee Creek Estates, a residential subd...

The Sequoyah County CCR/SART (Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Response Team) will hold its annual Sexual Assault Awareness Glow Stick Walk on April 3. The event will start at 7:30 p.m. at the pavilio...

Just Folks Chris Sheridan of the Brushy community says the best thing about living in Sequoyah County are the people, even those he supervises daily as the Sequoyah County Inmate Work Crew supervisor....

Sequoyah County voters will go to the polls to decide who will represent area schools and towns in the Board of Education General Election and Municipal General Election, set for Tuesday, April 4. In ...