25 Years Ago —Carl Albert State College’s branch campus in Sallisaw will receive additional classrooms and the parking lot at Sequoyah ’s Home Site northeast of Sallisaw will be redone thanks to a $10...

25 Years Ago —“We’re ahead of schedule,” Muldrow Mayor Carl Fugett said. The expansion of U.S. Highway 64, also known as Shawntel Smith Boulevard in Muldrow, which has been underway for more than a ye...

25 Years Ago —Sallisaw city officials officially purchased the Professional Building in Sallisaw Wednesday, with plans to remodel the building as the new city hall. The building was purchased by the c...

From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the June 4, 2000, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —The Muldrow City Park is underway, City Manager David Taylor, said. TTie town beg...

25 Years Ago —The City of Vian is almost ready to begin construction of a new sewer plant, Scott Neel, project engineer with P. Doug Harvell & Associates in Sallisaw, said construction of the plant sh...

25 Years Ago —Medicare and Medicaid payments to Sequoyah Memorial Hospital in Sallisaw are about $700,000 in arrears, but Hospital Administrator Ruth Ann Roark believes the payments will be made. “Thi...

(From the May 7,2000, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) 25 Years Ago -Louisiana-based Francis Drilling Fluids on Thursday announced the opening of a facility in Sallisaw that will provide the area w...

A presentation on the first surveyed road built in Oklahoma that went through the length of Sequoyah County will be given at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Sequoyah County Historical Museum, 200 E. Creek Avenue...

From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the May 7, 2000, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Wal-Mart representatives will be at the Sallisaw city commission Monday to present...

From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the April 30,2000, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) — A land donation to the Sequoyah’s Home site, 11 miles northeast of Sallisaw, ma...

25 Years Ago (From the April 27,2000, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —The best-selling novel “Where the Heart Is” by Billie Letts, is making its way to movie screens across America. The novel is ...

25 Years Ago —Webbers Falls Fire Chief Larry Chappell said five fire departments helped extinguish a garage fire, which endangered three nearby homes, Friday afternoon in Webbers Falls. Chappell said ...

25 Years Ago —The Sequoyah County Criminal Justice Authority is leaning toward hiring a general contractor to direct and oversee the building of the new Sequoyah County Jail. During the authority’s me...

From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the April 2, 2000, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —After 40 long years of cutting and buzzing hair, Padgett’s Barbershop in Sallisa...

25 Years Ago —Work began on the nuts and bolts of designing a new county jail when the Sequoyah County Criminal Justice Authority met Monday in the county commission office. After a lengthy discussion...

25 Years Ago —The Sequoyah County Criminal Justice Authority, a trust, was established Monday by county commissioners to oversee the funding for and construction of the new Sequoyah County Jail. The a...

25 Years Ago —Gov. Frank Keating informed the Choctaw Nation Tuesday of the state’s intent to terminate and attempt to renegotiate the existing tribal-state compact with the Choctaws for off-track bet...

From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the Feb. 27, 2000, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Wondering what’s going on south of Sallisaw on U.S. Highway 59? Cap-Rock Communi...

-Sequoyah County Times, Feb. 20,1925 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the Feb. 20,2000, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —The Cherokee Nation is heading the effort by...

From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the Feb. 13, 2000, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —The new manufacturing facility, Therma Tru, manufacturer of steel and fiber-glas...