Friday night’s Central BB games at Wister postponed until Monday night

By BY DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR

Due to illness issues at either or both Central and Wister high schools, Friday night’s girls and boys basketball games between the two schools that were slated for Friday night at Jerry Carpenter Memorial Gymnasium were postponed.

They have been rescheduled for 6:30 and 8 p.m. Monday.

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

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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

January 31, 2025

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 ...

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...