Cool weather dominated a good part of May, and possibly robbed Mother Nature of the heat needed for her most exotic springtime menu item; tornadoes. There was still the normal offering of large hail, damaging winds, and flash flooding, but the twister count was below average.
Sequoyah County Commissioners will discuss and take action on appointing requisitioning agents for Family Drug Court and other business beginning at 10 a.m. Monday during their regular meeting.
Sequoyah County's unemployment rate leapt to 16.4 percent in April — a 12.6 percentage point increase from March's rate of 3.8 percent, according to unemployment statistics released Wednesday by the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission.
David Rogers photographed this rare image of a Speckled King Snake devouring a Common King Snake. Rogers took the photo on his property on Drake Road last week. Both snakes are non-venomous and pose no harm to humans. Both are known to kill and eat poisonous snakes, but in this instance they obviously turned on each other with the Speckled King Snake coming out on top.
Voters will get an opportunity Monday night (June 8) to hear from a number of local candidates during what will be the first of a two-part public forum.
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