Recently, Cherokee Nation First Lady January Hoskin and I attended the annual chili cook-off and advocacy day by the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA). We were happy to be at this event at ...

Life in a small town means everybody knows what’s going on, good or bad. Just take what happened to Dud the other day. It was trash day, and the trash barrels were on the street waiting to be emptied ...

The Sequoyah County Child Abuse Task Force is having a hamburger/ hotdog cookout on April 4 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Sallisaw City Chamber Building, located at 101 N. Wheeler St. Lunch is $10 and...

JESUS CHRIST IS THE WAY MAKER!!! JESUS MAKES A WAY WHEN YOU/ME/WE THINK IT CAN’T BE DONE!!! ALL WE NEED TO DO IS LET HIM COME INTO OUR LIFE!!! Isaiah 43:1-28 1But now thus saith the Lord that created ...

Monday, we had 13 ladies weigh in. Our best weight loss was Barbara with 3.8 pounds gone. Way to go Barbara! Keep it going! Our group had a net loss of 2.1 pounds. Our Losers Lotto is almost over we h...

Announcements of upcoming events for nonprofit organizations and events in Sequoyah County may be delivered to Your TIMES in several different ways. They may be mailed to or hand delivered to Your TIM...

Public money for Oklahoma students is paying for email pitches like this one: “Good morning! Ryan Walters, state superintendent of Oklahoma, banned porn/explicit reading materials and graphics from cl...

Last week the Cherokee Nation and state of Oklahoma officially entered into a tribal-state compact governing tobacco sales. The compact will extend until March 1, 2034. “Over the years, compacts have ...

Aria Myers has been selected as February Member of the Month for Boys & Girls Club of Sequoyah County, Moffett Unit. Myer is the daughter of Caleb Myers and Brandi Clayton. She was selected because sh...

Liberty Public School’s Caught-ya card winners were Adelaide Nichols, Korbin Weaver, River Bray, Sadie Barnes and Zaiden Jones.

The Oklahoma House of Representatives have approved legislation that would offer free cancer screenings to all Oklahoma firefighters. House Bill 3573, authored by Rep. Daniel Pae, R-Lawton, would cove...

The Sallisaw Police Department will be conducting speed and traffic enforcement on East Cherokee from Wheeler east to city limits from March 20-27.

If you’re one of those impatient with what you believe to be the lethargic pace of Sallisaw’s business and residential growth, to be quite frank, Mayor Ernie Martens doesn’t want to hear about it. Bec...

The long-awaited, critically needed expansion of Sallisaw’s Solid Waste Landfill Facility has been given the green light. The Sallisaw Municipal Authority at its monthly meeting on Monday awarded a bi...

It’s not terribly unusual for Oklahoma motorists to encounter wildlife on Sooner highways, especially in rural areas. Deer, possums, raccoons, armadillos and, unfortunately, wayward pets become casual...

With so many concerned about inflation and making ends meet, there are very few concerns about Sallisaw’s budget. In a nutshell, the city’s “numbers are looking good,” Finance Director Robin Haggard t...

Spring cleaning is not limited to households. For Sequoyah County Commissioners Ray Watts, in District 1, and Beau Burlison, in District 2, their crews are doing some spring cleaning of their own. At ...

At 5 feet tall, Roland resident and large animal vet Cara White may look lady-like, but those who know her say she is the toughest “guy” around. Originally hailing from Invercargill, New Zealand, Whit...

The city of Sallisaw presented a 25-year service award from the Oklahoma Municipal League to Blakely Smith Jr. He has been employed with the city since October 1998, most recently as superintendent fo...

NORMAN — The Oklahoma Sooners baseball team opened its final season in the Big 12 in fine fashion with a threegame home weekend series sweep of Central Florida at L. Dale Mitchell Park. The Sooners sw...