PRATT, Kan. — If the sport was baseball, the Carl Albert State College Vikings wrestling team would have batted 1.000 at last Saturday’s NJCAA South Central Regional Tournament. The Vikings qualified ...

Improvements to a local ballfield, employee pay raises and several routine agreements highlighted a busy January 20 meeting of the Vian Board of Trustees and the Vian Public Works Authority. One of th...

It was a rough beginning to the Class A playoffs for the Gore High School basketball teams as they both lost to the host Talihina squads in the Class A District Tournament title games Saturday night o...

The Roland Board of Education approved a new school calendar, reorganized its leadership, and handled a variety of personnel and financial matters during its regular monthly meeting on Feb. 9. Board P...

IS YOUR/MY/OUR NAME WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE? WE MUST HAVE OUR NAME IN THE BOOK OF LIFE! OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST PLACES OUR NAME IN THE BOOK OF LIFE! Revelation 2:1-29 1Unto the angel of t...

The Vian Board of Education approved a $745,000 building bond resolution, appointed a new board member and re-employed administrative and district leadership for the 2026-27 school year during its reg...

When Marley Abell received more than 55% of the vote to win a three-person race for Sallisaw mayor, it avenged his only electoral defeat from almost 35 years ago when he came up short running for nint...

For the most part, few would argue that Sallisaw residents don’t often live on the straight and narrow, the modern idiom for an honest, moral and law-abiding life, derived from a biblical passage in M...

A father addressed the Sallisaw School Board on Monday night regarding a playground incident at Eastside Elementary School involving his child, alleging the school mishandled the situation and failed ...

The Sallisaw Board of Education handled a full agenda Monday night, approving the district’s annual audit, adopting academic calendars and confirming a slate of administrative positions for the upcomi...

In Sequoyah County’s two elections for school board — for Central and Moffett schools — Blake Rogers and Dayanara Marie Bowling emerged as unofficial winners, respectively. In voting for the Central s...

Are you superstitious? No? Are you sure? Do you knock on wood or never open an umbrella indoors or never walk under a ladder or avoid breaking a mirror or avoid stepping on a crack in the sidewalk or ...

When Yingchao Fan's car rolled over on Interstate-40 in Sequoyah County during January's snowstorm, he did what anyone would do: he called 911 for help. But what happened next landed him in jail. Acco...

For Melynda Rogers, teaching at Roland Public Schools isn’t just a career — it’s the fulfillment of a childhood dream rooted deep in Sequoyah County soil. A lifelong resident of Roland, Rogers has nev...

TAMPA, Fla. — The Tulsa women’s basketball team fell 72-60 to South Florida on Wednesday night at Yeungling Center. The Golden Hurricane (16-8 overall, 8-4 in American Athletic Conference play) forced...

We frequently think that when circumstances around us change, then we will be free to change. But Henry David Thoreau told us a long time ago that things do not change, we have to change. If we are bo...

For the third straight season, the Sallisaw Black Diamonds wrestling team will participate in the Class 4A Dual State Tournament, which will be Saturday at Tulsa Union High School. The Black Diamonds ...

Eastern Oklahoma State College in Wilburton has announced honor rolls for the fall 2025 semester. There were 153 students named to the President’s Honor Roll, which requires a 4.0 grade point average ...

Former Muldrow Lady Bulldogs softball player Destiny Tune is giving softball lessons in both hitting and fielding. Tune’s half-hour lessons on hitting and fielding cost $40 per student, while the hour...

The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved legislation by Senator Warren Hamilton, R-McCurtain, to prohibit marriage under the age of 18 in the State of Oklahoma. Senate Bill 504 eliminates c...