Former Sallisaw Mayor Julie Ferguson, 82, passed away on March 23. Ferguson and her family moved to Sallisaw in 1973. She served as a grant administrator for the City of Sallisaw before being elected ...

A Roland man incarcerated in the Sequoyah County Detention Center is facing a felony charge of forcible sodomy after allegedly forcing himself on another inmate by force and fear. Garrett J. Hurst, 37...

In a special meeting Wednesday to address additional funding to complete the Sallisaw Veterans Center, the Oklahoma Veterans Commission (OVC) approved requesting more than $21.7 million for a construc...

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma in Muskogee announced that Leiloni B. Smith, 30, of Tahlequah and formerly of Vian, was found guilty by a federal jury of eight...

Scott Chambers and Mark Walters, both seeking election on April 4 to the Indian Capital Technology Center Board of Education, were given the opportunity to answer these 10 questions. 1. Why are you ru...

Scott Chambers has announced that he is seeking election to the Indian Capital Technology Center (ICTC) Board of Education, a position he has held since August 2022. Chambers is vice president of real...

Mark Walters has announced that he is seeking election to the Indian Capital Technology Center (ICTC) Board of Education. Walters says he wants to serve in this position because he believes in the imp...

Social media, in general, and Facebook, in particular, are oftentimes as much a part of our daily lives as the air we breathe. FOMO, the fear of missing out, prods us to obsession as we keep checking ...

For the second year in a row, the Moffett Peer Mentoring group has won the T-shirt design contest which promotes learning about students with disabilities. Two students who are part of the Student Wel...

Arkansas Air National Guard Lt. Col. Casey Eubanks will be the first to tell you “I’m not a recruiter.” That’s not how the top brass sees it, however. “But the director of the Air National Guard came ...

Just Folks Allen Lee of Sallisaw comes from a long line of people who have owned businesses in Sallisaw. Lee, 35, however, enjoys spending time with his family which led him to give up his job doing p...

Sallisaw Mayor Ernie Martens this week signed three proclamations declaring National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week, Vaping Awareness Month and Alcohol Awareness Month in Sallisaw. On hand for the signin...

Brushy School Superintendent Jared Armer said someone wrote graffiti on the school’s storm shelter and the incident is currently under investigation. Armer, who has served as superintendent of the sch...

A Dallas, Texas man who shot two others on Interstate-40 near Vian in July 2021 is scheduled for a 9 a.m. March 23 jury trial sounding docket, according to Sequoyah County court records. Lee B. King, ...

Three people were transported Sunday afternoon following a collision on US-64 and 4570 Road, about four miles west of Sallisaw, according to an accident report issued by Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP)....

A Sallisaw man who was originally charged in 2021 with three felony counts of child sexual abuse, one felony count of rape first degree by instrumentation, and two felony counts of rape, first degree,...

A Roland man who was charged in May 2022 with murder in the first degree-felony murder of a Vian man is set to appear before Associate District Judge Kyle Waters on March 22, according to Sequoyah Cou...

The Roland Board of Education met on March 13 where they discussed and voted on several employment issues. The board accepted the resignations of Ag teacher and FFA advisor Myron Lockwood, Special Edu...

The Sallisaw Police Department will be conducting speed and traffic enforcement in the areas of all school zones and surrounding areas from March 22 to 29.

With the recent upheaval at the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs with the firing of embattled Executive Director Joel Kintsel amid his claims of an illegitimate veterans commission, there may b...