The Muldrow Board of Education convened on August 12 for its regular meeting where board members voted to appoint a new assistant superintendent, and made several unanimous decisions impacting the dis...

In Sequoyah County, the start of the school year brings a flurry of excitement and nerves, but for one Muldrow family, it also brings family stories from a different time and place. Mary Stevens, or “...

The location that once housed a distribution center for Coors and offices for the Sallisaw Chamber of Commerce, was demolished last week by work crews with the city of Sallisaw. According to city offi...

Sequoyah County Commissioners’ weekly meetings are not known for much drama. Monday was an exception. For more than 1½ hours, about 20 people waiting in the commissioners’ outer office turned their he...

When Sallisaw city commissioners were asked on April 8 to consider changes to the city’s animal ordinance — policies that hadn’t been reviewed “in a very, very long time” — the possibility of change i...

With the Sallisaw Public Schools student population rising by a little more than 100, the Sallisaw Board of Education on Monday night voted to add some new staff members to its campuses during its reg...

A Sallisaw man is charged with two felony counts of child sexual abuse stemming from two separate incidents, one in 2018 and the other in 2023, according to police reports. Hector Milian, 62, was char...

My wife, Brenda, and I have been in newspaper collectively for almost 100 years — and all of our 30 years of marriage. We’ve often worked together at the same newspaper — me in the newsroom and her in...

Stacy Lee Drake, the Alabama man who terrorized residents in three states during a five-week crime spree and is charged with the June 18 murders of Taylor Sharp and Tara Underwood at LaFerry’s Propane...

For those who view Washington, D.C., through the same rose-colored lenses that naive Sen. Jefferson Smith did in Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin provide...

CLINTON – For Brittany Sullivan, homelessness is a place tucked away in a wooded area on the outskirts of this Custer County town 93 miles west of Oklahoma City. Hidden from the view of passing vehicl...

A Texas man arrested on charges of aggravated possession of child pornography and lewd molestation in Sequoyah County District Court has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, according to a press rele...

The Sallisaw Police Department reported on August 5 that thanks to the vigilance of Sallisaw Police officer Colton Burgess, a total of 82.53 pounds of marijuana, 3.2 pounds of edible marijuana, and pr...

This summer, Emily Johnson of Roland had the adventure of a lifetime. The 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Oklahoma, who graduated from Roland High School and is studying to become a teacher...

Sequoyah County Sheriff Larry Lane said thanks to the heroic actions of one of his off-duty deputies, a driver’s life was saved on July 31. Lane said dispatch received a report last Wednesday of a sin...

A man reportedly took his own life on Monday morning at a local business, according to an incident report issued by Sallisaw police. Sallisaw Police officer Tucker Martens has identified Donald R. Dav...

Benjamin Franklin told us that, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes. Insurance companies limiting their payouts could be added to that idiom. And that’s what Sequoyah County, as w...

Congressman Josh Brecheen will host an inperson town hall meeting in Sallisaw on Friday, Aug. 16, beginning at 8 a.m. at the Wheeler Event Center, 103 N. Wheeler Avenue. The hour-long town hall is par...

Margaret Perry grew up in Sallisaw. She remembers living in a house across the railroad tracks from downtown, the product of “a protective mother and dad,” where the naiveté of the era in small-town A...

The Sallisaw Lions Club Rodeo, which began its three-day run on Thursday night, has turned 80-years-old, adding a lot of new things for this year’s annual rodeo event. “We’re really excited,” Sallisaw...