The Sallisaw Public Schools Board of Education moved quickly through its regular monthly agenda on Nov. 10, approving a series of routine items and setting the stage for the sale of more than $1.2 mil...

Nov. 15-16 Merchants’ Christmas Open House This event features Sallisaw merchants from throughout the community opening the doors of their businesses with lots of holiday sales, refreshments and new i...

Sallisaw has a new animated Christmas tree. Santa Claus is in his sleigh waiting to take off for Oklahoma. But those eager to welcome the holidays will have to wait an extra day. The Christmas tree li...

You’ll forgive Sallisaw Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Marty Green this time of year if he channels his inner Clement C. Moore. For the next month, Green may not have visions of sugar plums da...

Sequoyah County residents had the welcome mat rolled out for them recently, as the Sallisaw Branch of Local Bank opened the doors to its new, permanent facility to the public. The 9,000-square-foot, t...

Your TIMES is again hosting a Pet Calendar Photo Contest, with the top vote-getters featured in the 2026 pet calendar. The top 12 pets will be featured as the main photo for one of the 12 months in th...

For Jessica Johnson, life in Sequoyah County feels like a breath of fresh air — literally and figuratively. A native of Illinois and a 2006 graduate of United Township High School, Johnson traded the ...

If you were among those who received a letter last week from the City of Sallisaw regarding possible lead in the city’s water service line pipes, the second sentence of the letter — in which the first...

The Sallisaw Chamber of Commerce’s annual Members Night Out on Thursday at the Fort Smith Convention Center — “A night of glamour, glitz and grand piano hits” — was not only the organization’s premier...

Governor Kevin Stitt and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) announced this week the results of a recent Operation Guardian enforcement action targeting illegal immigrant commercial drivers along the I-...

At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, an armistice went into effect, ending fighting on the European Western Front in World War I. That day is remembered each year as Veterans Da...

For Vian native Julie Spears Hunter, life has come full circle. A 1988 graduate of Vian Public School, Hunter has returned to her hometown to give back to the same community that shaped her. After ear...

A late-night report of a pedestrian allegedly being struck by a train early Saturday led to an extensive emergency response in Sallisaw, but investigators later confirmed that no one was injured. At a...

Ghost, an artist from New York, debuted his artwork of Pretty Boy Floyd on Friday during the Red Autumn Art Festival in Sallisaw. The art is on display at the downtown Pocket Park. Ghost runs his artw...

Apart from the Christmas tree that’s the center of attention — complemented by Christmas carols, hot chocolate by the fire and visions of sugar plums surely dancing in the heads of expectant children ...

Steve Garvin and Jonathan Maxwell continue repair work this week on Judge Faulkner’s Cabin at Sallisaw’s 14 Flags Museum, work that began immediately following the September 23 storm that toppled a la...

In response to a recent uptick in juvenile crimes allegedly occurring in local schools that have been disseminated in local and social media, District 27 District Attorney Jack Thorp on Wednesday a sw...

Friday, Oct. 31 Gans Public School Trunk-or-treat, front parking lot, 6 to 8 p.m. Halloween on Elm Street, with the Sallisaw Police Department, 5 to 7 p.m. Muldrow Public Library, trick-or-treat, 4 to...

Robert E. Murchison, a local author of Sallisaw, continues to grow his fantasy and science fiction series, A Family of Time, a multi- book saga that follows a family from Heavener, chosen to become th...

Brittany Bunting of Sallisaw has spent 37 years living in Sequoyah County. A 2006 graduate of Vian High School, she grew up north of Vian on Lake Tenkiller. “I was a lake baby,” she said. She also has...