From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the Sept. 23,1999, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) (From the Sept. 23, 1999, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Fire burned throug...

25 Years Ago —The Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) recently released costs for improvements to U.S. Highway 59 south of Interstate 40, along with tentative bid dates. The new Arkansas Rive...

25 Years Ago   —A site for the new county jail could be voted on by the Sequoyah Board of Commissioners Monday. At the end of last Monday’s regular meeting, the commissioners agreed to put discussion ...

From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the Sept. 12,1999, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Expansion of the Sallisaw landfill into a regional landfill began last week, Jim...

From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the Sept. 9,1999, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —The announced closing of the Kansas City Southern intermodal ramp in Sallisaw is ...

25 Years Ago —Plans for Wal-Mart Super Center in Sallisaw are still on track, but they have been delayed, a building engineer for Wal-Mart told Sallisaw officials recently. Sallisaw Mayor George Glenn...

-Sequoyah County Times, Aug. 26,1999 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the Aug. 26,1999, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Sequoyah County residents may be asked to vo...

25 Years Ago — Sequoyah County Times, Aug. 19, 1999 —Sequoyah County officials are planning a public meeting on the county’s jail problems. Cleon Harrell, district 3 county commissioner, said Monday, ...

Tourist courts were early versions of roadside motels, and Sallisaw had one of its own. It is unknown if Glover’s Tourist Court was interesting to the larger area, or if it was because it was a local ...

The Sequoyah County Historical Society will meet at 2 p.m. on Sunday, August 18, at its museum, located at 200 E. Creek in Sallisaw. Earl Strebeck will present a pictorial program about the “Old House...

--Sequoyah County Tinm, Aug. 12, 1949 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the Aug. 5,1999, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Sequoyah Memorial Hospital in Sallisaw will ...

Last week, Your TIMES received a postcard in the mail from the 1940s, which showed little buildings with the words “Glover’s Tourist Court on Hwy. 64-59 West, Sallisaw, Okla.” With the postcard, an om...

25 Years Ago (From the Aug. 5, 1999, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Vian will spend about the next week assigning addresses to residences and lots in Vian, Albert Marquez, Sequoyah County 911 co...

— Sequoyah County Times, July 29, 1999 25 Years Ago —The Oklahoma State School Board of Education voted unanimously at a special meeting Tuesday to deny Gum Springs School accreditation, Sandy Garrett...

-Sequoyah County Times; July 22, 1949 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the July 8,1999, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —The water level at Lake Tenkiller is droppin...

From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the July 8, 1999, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Therma Tru, an insulated door and window manufacturing company currently located ...

— Sequoyah County Times, July 8, 1999 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the July 8, 1999, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —The Sequoyah County Board of Commissioners ...

— Sequoyah County Times, July 1, 1949 25 Years Ago —The Sequoyah County 911 board received a $50,000 grant from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to purchase equipment on June 21, Albert Marquez, 91...

— Sequoyah County Times, June 20, 1999 25 Years Ago —What was old in Marble City is new again with the reopening of a marble quarry. Marble City Stone Inc. is open and operating again after about 85 y...

This Week in County History — Sequoyah County Times, June 17, 1949 25 Years Ago —The first phase of the proposed Cherokee Nation port on the north side of Kerr Lake will cost about $9.9 million and co...