Hello once again and a big welcome to May, as we will be celebrating not only Mothers Day, but Nurses Week, Nursing Home Week and Memorial Day. We have had a very busy week as we went to the gazebo on...

— Sequoyah County Democrat, May 11, 1948 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the May 10, 1998, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Sallisaw Schools administrators sent hom...

If we could use 500 words to tell who we are and what we want, what would we say? A great many things would have to be left out. We could not brag nor gloat nor tell how we used our smarts to get “whe...

I don’t usually write because I need to hear from you more than you need to hear from me, and when I have something to say my hope is that you haven’t tired of me, and that you’ll give my words due co...

For many young Cherokees, college is the doorway to realizing their dreams. It is the path to many different rewarding careers and ways to support a family. No young Cherokee who dreams of going to co...

JESUS CHRIST IS THE FIRST FRUIT OF THOSE THAT AROSE! LET HIM BE THE FIRST FRUIT OF YOUR LIFE! HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN JUST A LITTLE BIT! I Corinthians 15:12-58 12Now if Christ be preached that he rose ...

This Week in County History -Sequoyah County Times, May  7 ,1948 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the May 7,1998, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —A freak accident f...

News of Monday's special meeting to entertain an offer to purchase the Sallisaw Landfill Facility and trash service took me by surprise. If you can call a dump a crown jewel, Sallisaw’s 1,200-acre fac...

Warm air crept in during the early morning and tipped the dogwoods with white buds and turned the japónica to tiny leaves and pink to red blossoms. An early spring seems to be in the offing. Every bir...

Welcome once again to the Vian Nursing and Rehab News. Well I guess Mother Nature decided we didn’t need a picnic at the gazebo as it rained and rained. Oh well, we had an ice cream party instead. We ...

That’s a value shared by most Cherokees everywhere. At the Cherokee Nation, we extend the value of family by working to protect all our citizens. Unfortunately, too many vulnerable family members stil...

-Sequoyah County Democrat, April 27, 1923 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the April 26, 1998, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —A state appeals court, Tuesday, confi...

Who give us more trouble than anyone else? Sometimes we are the worst. We bully ourselves to do something we know is not right. We refuse to ignore something that is not good for us. In fact, we tend ...

DO NOT BE ASHAMED OF JESUS CHRIST!!! NO SOUL NEEDS TO PERISH—BUT IT’S A CHOICE!!! IS JESUS CHRIST YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR!!! ONLY YOU AND HE KNOWS!!! ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD!!!...

In the modern economy, competition for jobs and investment is fierce. Large, globalized companies come and go in search of a better deal. Especially in rural and small-town America, whole regions of o...

-Sequoyah County Times, April 22, 1948 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From the April 23, 1998, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Students at Roland Junior High School wi...

When I decided to switch from majoring in architecture to becoming a newspaper journalist, that was about the time “All the Presidents Men” was mesmerizing theater audiences. Watching Bob Woodward and...

This Monday, Salllisaw TOPS had nine ladies weigh. Annette had the best weight loss for the week with 2.6 pounds. The Two Bit Bowl name drawn was Willene. This week’s challenge will be the 10-10-10 Ch...

Hello and welcome again to our news. By the time you read this all of the baskets have been delivered and Easter is behind us, but not forgotten. We ended up making 140 baskets for the Pre-K, Head Sta...

We have been told for hundreds of years that something drastic is going to happen-but few really take it serious. Yes, we have been told that, but everything stays the same. Well it may seem so but in...