Columns & Opinions, Tribal
CHIEF CHAT
November 19, 2024
About 7,000 identified rare diseases impact approximately 1 in 10 Oklahomans. The Cherokee Nation’s first Rare Disease Summit on Nov. 21 marks a crucial step toward addressing the too often overlooked...
Columns & Opinions, Sports
GRIDIRON NOTES
By BY DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
November 19, 2024
First off, let me apologize for being incorrect about the publishing date of the 2024 High School Basketball Preview in last week’s Cage Notes. It will come out Dec. 6, in which the season-preview sto...
Columns & Opinions
SALLISAW TOPS
By Billie Anthony 
November 19, 2024
We had 13 in attendance this past Monday. We had a net loss of 4.7 pounds this week. I had the best weight loss with 2.8 pounds gone! This week we had three members who had lost 10 pounds each, they w...
Columns & Opinions, Religion
BLACKGUM CHRISTIAN UNION CHURCH
By Pastor Reggie Kelley 
November 19, 2024
YOU HAVE NOT BECAUSE YOU ASK NOT! ASK AND YOU WILL RECEIVE! ALWAYS PRAY GOD’S WILL BE DONE! James 4:1-17 1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that wa...
Columns & Opinions
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler 
November 14, 2024
Luke said to us and intended for us to know it is true, “Nothing is impossible with God.” Believe it, because it is true. In this day and age, many are trying to prove us wrong. Forget the put-down. I...
Columns & Opinions, Sports
GRIDIRON NOTES
November 14, 2024
The all-district football teams for District 4A-4, District 3A-3, District 2AII-3, District 2AII-4, District AII-3 and District BII-4 will be announced next month. They likely will be drawn up this mo...
Columns & Opinions, Religion
BLACKGUM CHRISTIAN UNION CHURCH
By Pastor Reggie Kelley 
November 12, 2024
GOD OFFERS SECURITY, HE DOESN’T FORCE IT! OUR LORD AND SAVIOR GIVES IT TO ALL WHO WANTS SECURITY! THERE IS NO BETTER WAY TO HAVE SECURITY IN ONE’S LIFE! PRAISE BE TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST! 1 John 2:1-29 ...
Columns & Opinions, Sports
CAGE NOTES
By BY DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
November 12, 2024
Welcome to the return of Cage Notes, which is a weekly column during the high school basketball season that will talk about the ups and downs and ins and outs of the season as well as talk about upcom...
Columns & Opinions, Tribal
CHIEF CHAT
By Chuck Hoskin Jr. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief 
November 12, 2024
About 7,000 identified rare diseases impact approximately 1 in 10 Oklahomans. The Cherokee Nation’s first Rare Disease Summit on Nov. 21 marks a crucial step toward addressing the too often overlooked...
Columns & Opinions, Sports
GRIDIRON NOTES
By BY DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
November 7, 2024
It will be a busy end to the week for the Sallisaw Black Diamonds student trainers — senior Kasey Adame (who was this year’s homecoming queen), junior Addy Orendorff and freshmen Sadie Tyler and Kamry...
Columns & Opinions
SALLISAW TOPS
By Billie Anthony 
November 7, 2024
Monday we had 13 in attendance. This week was a rough week for the members, we ended up with a net gain of 4.6 pounds. We will do better this coming week. Our best weight loss came from Willene with 2...
Columns & Opinions
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler 
November 7, 2024
We are too easily led to believe that we deserve a way of life that appears free and easy. What seems free and easy can take away our freedom unless we take charge of our lives and stop waiting for so...
Columns & Opinions
November 6, 2024
Thank you to the Oklahoma constituents who voted to send me to Washington again as their Representative. As a conservative, I will continue to stand for the foundational principles that secure the ble...
Columns & Opinions, Tribal
CHIEF CHAT
By Chuck Hoskin Jr. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief 
November 5, 2024
Cherokee people are amazingly resilient. Our tribe stayed together through the ages despite hardships, including European arrival, forced removal, economic downturns, and attacks on our sovereignty. O...
Columns & Opinions, Religion
BLACKGUM CHRISTIAN UNION CHURCH
By Pastor Reggie Kelley 
November 5, 2024
DEAR GOD, HELP THE U.S.A.! THERE’S MUCH EVIL IN THE LAND, BUT AS SOLOMON SAID, “THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDERNEATH THE SUN!” CHRISTIANS MUST STAND STRONG AND RESIST THE EVIL OF THIS OL’ WORLD! SATAN’S LI...
Columns & Opinions
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler 
October 31, 2024
Good health is such a blessing. We don't realize how much we aid or harm our own health. In fact, we give more thought to being careful not to get wet than we do not to get angry. It is said that ange...
Columns & Opinions, News
COMMENTARY
By Rob Collins | Oklahoma Voice 
October 31, 2024
When I left the newspaper industry, a local business owner told me a secret. His confession? This fellow citizen knew how to read the local newspaper’s website for free. For more than 130 years, The E...
Columns & Opinions
By Lynn Adams Staff Writer 
October 31, 2024
OK, I’ll admit that from time to time, I use a four-letter word. Admittedly, a lot of people do. Some are embarrassed by such a vocabulary choice, while others utter such words as a normal course of c...
Columns & Opinions, Sports
GRIDIRON NOTES
By BY DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
October 31, 2024
If last week’s second half of Roland’s homecoming game is any indication, the Rangers are beginning to show signs of turning the corner toward success. “The thing about our team, and our coaches have ...
Columns & Opinions
SENATE REVIEW
By BY SEN. TOM WOODS 
October 31, 2024
The 2025 legislative session is quickly approaching, with just over three months until the 1st Session of the 60th Legislature officially begins. Our preparations for next year’s session are well unde...