Sports

January 31, 2025

Central's teams will be home for Class 2A District Tournament, but all Class A basketball teams, Vian squads sent on the road

Local Class A, 2A basketball teams receive district assignments from OSSAA

By BY DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR

The Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association (OSSAA) released the Class A and 2A district assignments on Friday afternoon.

In Class 2A, the Central Lady Tigers and Tigers will get to be home for their Class 2A District Tournament as they will entertain Hulbert.

All Class A teams and the Vian teams in Class 2A were sent on the road for their respective district tournaments.

In Class 2A, the Vian teams were sent to Talihina.

In Class A, Gore and Davenport were sent to Quinton, Gans and Porum ...

Friday night’s Roland-Sallisaw BB games postponed

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Illness from Roland causing games' postponements

Friday night’s Roland-Sallisaw BB games postponed

By BY DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR

January 31, 2025

Friday night's NOAA Conference basketball games between the Roland teams and the Sallisaw squads at Paul Post Field House were postponed due to illness from the Roland side of things. Sallisaw girls c...

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With federal funding freeze lifted, everything proved ‘to be just fine’

By Lynn Adams Staff Writer

January 30, 2025

Nonprofit organizations and government agencies at local, state and federal levels who depend on federal funding surely breathed a collective sigh of relief Wednesday afternoon when President Trump’s ...

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Meetings about lodging tax ‘very good, very positive’

By Lynn Adams Staff Writer

January 30, 2025

If what’s transpiring at the town hall-style meetings the past two weeks is any indication, Sequoyah County voters may be giving the green light to a proposed 4% countywide lodging tax. The current it...

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Early voting begins February 6

January 30, 2025

Early voting begins Thursday, February 6, for voters in Sequoyah County. Voters who will not be able to make it to the polls on Election Day have the option of voting early at the county election boar...

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JUST FOLKS

Glenn Patterson

By JACOB BOWLING STAFF WRITER

January 30, 2025

For Webbers Falls resident Glenn Patterson, starting his day includes slipping on a protective suit and venturing out to greet the inhabitants of his beehives. Where many might balk at the hum of thou...