David Eads, superintendent at Central Public Schools, hasn’t slept too well since he started his job on July 1. He finds himself regularly waking up at 2 a.m. to jot down in a bedside notebook ideas t...

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma in Muskogee has announced that Jerry D. Rogers, 61, of Sallisaw, was sentenced to 360 months in prison for aggravated sexual ab...

Cyndi Munson (D-Oklahoma City), Minority Leader for the Oklahoma House of Representatives, was guest speaker for Monday night’s Sequoyah County Women and Sequoyah County Democrats annual Christmas din...

A dangerous development in the fight against Fentanyl has grown more prevalent in our communities and across the country over the past year, according to a press release issued on Dec. 4 by District 2...

The Sallisaw Police Department will be conducting speed and traffic enforcement in the area of Maple from Cherokee north to city limits and surrounding residential areas from Dec. 6-13.

Wednesday at the Wheeler Event Center in Sallisaw, there was a screen, a movie, an audience, popcorn and soft drinks. And for the three dozen people — mostly high school students — who showed up for t...

A Sallisaw woman is one of 13 individuals who was indicted on Nov. 13 with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl, according to Christopher J. Wilson, United Stat...

Sequoyah County Commissioners might spend $192,927 for a steel span bridge on North 4790 Road. They may also pay thousands of dollars for inmate ambulance transportation from two years ago. But before...

Jeremiah Johnson, 38, of Vian has deep roots in Sequoyah County. Named after his late grandfather, Benny Johnson, of the Johnsonville/ Blackgum community near Lake Tenkiller, his birth name is actuall...

Sallisaw’s first-ever ice skating rink — even with daytime temperatures 20 to 30 degrees above freezing — welcomes skaters beginning Friday at the downtown Stage Park for a monthlong celebration of th...

The recent extended Thanksgiving weekend was four days everyone enjoyed. Extended weekends this year for Christmas and New Year’s are three days to which everyone looks forward. Everyone but those wit...

Matthew McGrew, 16, of Sallisaw, was recently among those who donated items for Your TIMES' annual Giving Tree. McGrew has been donating to the tree for numerous years -- this year it was gloves -- ma...

Dec.  1-2 Main Street Ice Skating Rink 5 to 8:40 p.m. Friday 3 to 8:40 p.m. Saturday Stage Park, Oak and Choctaw Dec. 2 Downtown in December, Vian 6 p.m. Carriage rides, pony rides, petting zoo, visit...

Polly Tyler is tireless and has learned effective campaigning as she lobbies commissioners from counties across the state with claims that federal conservation measures are clandestine attempts to rob...

Surely it was not all that long ago that members of First United Methodist Church carried on foot an old rugged, wooden cross the one and a half miles from their former church building at Creek Avenue...

Gus Perry figures his office supply building at 205 N. Oak Street in downtown Sallisaw ought to be good for the next 100 years. After all, the building lasted 102 years before the brick facade began g...

Sequoyah County Commissioners approved a “Consortium” agreement between local elected officials and the Green Country Workforce Development Board at their regular meeting, Monday. According to Distric...

If it is happening in Webbers Falls, you can bet Norma Griffith will either be involved or is coordinating the event. “I enjoy staying busy and the best way I’ve found to do that is to be involved in ...

There are at least two things universally accepted about this week and tomorrow’s national holiday, Thanksgiving — travel is the busiest of the year, and family is at the center of the celebration. In...

A Marble City man charged in July with felony sexual battery, first degree rape, and sodomy - victim mentally incapacitated, is now scheduled for a Dec. 14 jury trial sounding docket, according to Seq...