What is your New Year’s resolution? To work hard at school. What was the best part about Christmas break? My birthday and playing video games! What do you think you will be doing five years from now? ...

Sequoyah County Commissioners last Tuesday signed off on a couple of annual agreements and conducted other business at their last regular meeting for the year. Commissioners approved a Memorandum of U...

Janis Risley, Sequoyah County Oklahoma Cooperative Extension County/Extension FCS Educator will be providing a free CDC Prevent T2 program at Stanley Tubbs Memorial Library in Sallisaw beginning on Tu...

“It’s pretty sad when you can’t enjoy a day of fishing and return to your vehicle and find out someone has stolen your catalytic converter,” Sequoyah County Commissioner Ray Watts said Monday. Watts s...

Christmas has long passed, 10, 12 days now? The decorations are down or coming down. The house has been re-arranged back to where it was before, pre Christ mas. The kitchen still needs a little work a...

James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. I used to work for PACTIV Corporat...

What an experience ^ the shepherds had as they went about daily Shirley R. life. The Watts message of salvation comes...“which will be to all people.” “So it was, when the angels had gone away from th...

Kenya Jackson of Sallisaw made the fall semester honor roll at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. Those on the President’s Honor Roll earned all A’s, or a 4.0 grade point average (GPA), in a mini...

FATHERS, DON’T PROVOKE YOUR CHILDREN! I STEPPED OUTSIDE OF MY HOUSE AND HEARD THE AWFULEST CUSSING FIT AND THIS MAN’S CHILDREN WERE IN FULL EFFECT OF THIS MAN’S TANTRUM! I CAN’T THROW STONES. MY MILIT...

Oklahoma veterans and young farmers (45 years of age or younger) can apply for grants up to $10,000 through the Agriculture Enhancement and Diversification Program. Additionally, veterans and young fa...

Rep. Randy Randleman, R-Eufaula, has announced his plans to file a bill requiring the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activity Association (OSSAA) or other entities organizing secondary school athletics an...

The Oklahoma Tax Commission recently released city sales tax collection figures that primarily represents local tax receipts from September business. The monies they reported this period represent sal...

Editor’s note: If the age does not appear next to a name, it was not listed in the court record. None. Criminal Misdemeanors None. Civil Appearances (over $10,000) AFNI, Inc. vs. Matthew Hodge - Breac...

fAound t Mountain onemust The name of Jesus belongs to every Christian and we have a right to use that name. . But each knowthe and the authority that’s in Jesus’ name, and must learn to exercise that...

Anyone planning to rent the Sequoyah County Fairgrounds facility in the new year will now have to pay an additional amount since the Sequoyah County Commissioners raised the deposit fee last Tuesday. ...

Actions will be costly to Sheriff’s Office An inmate who swallowed a razor blade while in custody of the Sequoyah County Jail may end up costing the county over $200,000 in hospital bills, according t...

The new Family Dollar/Dollar Tree store going up in Vian is making great progress, with construction still on tract for scheduled completion. Just in the last few weeks, workers have completed most of...

January Election set for proposed new high school An election will be held on Feb. 8 regarding the proposal to build a new high school classroom building and library for Vian Public Schools that will ...

Northeastern State University received a $100,000 grant that will allow it to expand mental healthcare services for American Indian students. The university received funding through the Southern Plain...

AA Meetings are now being held at Vian Vian United Methodist Church, located at the corner of Lee and Blackstone Streets. The meetings are held each week on Tuesday and Friday, beginning at 7 p.m. Inf...