If it is happening in Webbers Falls, you can bet Norma Griffith will either be involved or is coordinating the event. “I enjoy staying busy and the best way I’ve found to do that is to be involved in ...

There are at least two things universally accepted about this week and tomorrow’s national holiday, Thanksgiving — travel is the busiest of the year, and family is at the center of the celebration. In...

A Marble City man charged in July with felony sexual battery, first degree rape, and sodomy - victim mentally incapacitated, is now scheduled for a Dec. 14 jury trial sounding docket, according to Seq...

An Arkansas woman has written her first children’s book thanks to the encouragement of her late grandmother and longtime Sallisaw resident, Addie Griffin. 'A Beautiful Story: Jesus & St. Nick” was wri...

The poem was originally published as "The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day." It celebrates the author's childhood memories of visiting her grandfather's house (it was later changed to Gra...

The Sallisaw Police Department will be conducting speed and traffic enforcement on S. Kerr and Cherokee from Nov. 22 to 29.

Nov. 22 Community Thanksgiving dinner 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sallisaw Middle School cafeteria Open to everyone Nov. 23 Free Thanksgiving dinner 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Broadway Joe’s Cafe, Muldrow Carryout only....

Ben Johnson, who had never even visited Arkansas before he moved to Fort Smith in August 2022 to become president and CEO of the United States Marshals Museum, is battling a stereotype when he encoura...

Thanksgiving, the quintessential family-gathering holiday, is one of those heart-warming occasions that often means different things to different people. It not only celebrates the harvest, but other ...

Sallisaw City Manager Keith Skelton knows that if the city simply ignores instances of junk vehicles sitting in neighborhood yards, the problem won’t go away on its own. That’s why Skelton and city co...

Bob Pratt of Muldrow says throughout his life he has “lived for the moment.” But one big moment which involved music came unexpectedly for Pratt along with opportunities and a lifetime of fond memorie...

Sequoyah County Water Association (SCWA) manager Vance Mooney reported the $15.3 million water improvement project made possible through a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) loan is 75 percent comp...

For at least the past three years, more than 250 children each year have played soccer on makeshift competition fields, choking back swirling dust that rises from Sallisaw Sports Complex’s red dirt wh...

A few cases have been settled and one perpetrator is awaiting sentencing following jury trials that were held on Nov. 6 in Sequoyah County District Court. Rusty J. Waters Rusty J. Waters, 44, of Salli...

In two weeks, Sallisaw’s first-ever ice skating rink — albeit temporary — will be in place at Stage Park at the corner of Choctaw Avenue and Oak Street, ready for an anticipated onslaught of eager hol...

Sallisaw will use $300,000 distributed from its escrow account with the Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group (OMAG) for sanitary sewer system improvements and other infrastructure needs. City commission...

For some who look back on their lives and take stock of what they, and possibly members of their family, have accomplished, they find there are few memorable or noteworthy occurrences. Not so with Fla...

Work continues on the Sallisaw Veterans Center — almost exclusively indoors these days — as the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs (ODVA) progresses toward its long-anticipated opening of the fac...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma tribal leaders this week spoke during a House Special Committee meeting on State-Tribal Relations about coming to an agreement on compacts and how the Legislature can ratify t...

A convicted sex offender has been charged in Sequoyah County District Court with failure to comply with sex offender registration and obstructing an officer, after moving into a Muldrow residence that...