Ronnie Hopkins, 67, of Rose and an Independent, has announced his candidacy for US Representative District 2. Hopkins describes himself as a proud American who cherishes faith, family and the great st...

May 19 Box Cemetery Brushy Cemetery Czarnikow Cemetery Lee’s Chapel Cemetery Maple Cemetery Marble City Cemetery McEver Family Cemetery Redland Cemetery Sanders Cemetery Seabolt Cemetery Vaught Cemete...

Cell phone users are accustomed to receiving alerts, especially in the spring when weather is a top concern in Tornado Alley. In addition, there’s the familiar squawk associated with AMBER alerts for ...

Two men have been charged in Sequoyah County District Court after they allegedly placed skimmers on gas pumps at convenience stores in Sallisaw last month. Yodanis Mora-Breef, 37, of Bethany, and Jorg...

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma has announced that Jimcy McGirt, 75, of Holdenville, has been sentenced to 360 months imprisonment for one count of aggravated ...

They say "service to others is the greatest form of selflessness" and for Sallisaw-resident Sarah Fitzgerald, servitude is at the core of her life. A compassionate soul with a heart as big as the worl...

All-around winners for boys and girls in four age groups each received $1,000 May 5 as the third annual John Perry Wickett Memorial Junior Rodeo closed its two-day run at the Sallisaw Rodeo Grounds. T...

As Missouri-based Mansion Entertainment Group attempts to tweak the design of the $2 billion American Heartland Theme Park and Resort it has proposed near Vinita, a Canadian firm hired to design the m...

A committee of a newly formed citizens’ neighborhood association wants to make sure city leaders know where its members stand when proposed changes to Sallisaw’s animal ordinance are being considered....

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...

Those choosing to be particularly generous in their assessment of what was being advertised Saturday on U.S. 64 east of Roland would conclude that signs proclaiming “topless car wash” were surely inte...

Sequoyah County Sheriff’s Deputy Duwaine Chase could be relaxing at home right now having taken a medical retirement, and virtually no one would have blamed him. But that’s not Duwaine Chase. When suc...

You don’t have to tell Sallisaw City Manager Keith Skelton that proposed changes to the city’s animal ordinance have caused an uproar among animal lovers and exploded as vitriol on social media. There...

A Sallisaw woman charged in 2023 with embezzlement and possession of forged instrument after it was discovered she had taken $8,306.24 from the Sallisaw Eastside PTO account and forged another individ...

A Friday night collision on I-40, about two miles west of Vian, has claimed the life of a Sallisaw man, according to an accident report issued by Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Trooper Jordan Galvan #311 of...

Sequoyah County Commissioners have awarded a bid contract to a Poteau company for installation of a water line associated with a county bridge replacement project on Old U.S. 64 west of Muldrow. Red’s...

They say that we should “let our dreams fly us to the stars” but for one Gans resident, Cynthia Smith, this dream became literal. Born and raised in Sequoyah County, Smith’s early years were shaped by...

Dozens of Sequoyah County residents joined United Faith pastor Austin Carrigan and others from the Pastors' Fellowship on Thursday at the Sequoyah County Courthouse gazebo to join others across the co...

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...