The Roland Board of Education convened on July 10 for a regular meeting to discuss various matters concerning the district. The meeting saw the approval of new hires, deliberation on financial reports...

Oklahoma State University Ag Research experts are studying the population size of shad fish in Arkansas reservoirs to help maintain bass fishing for anglers. OSU graduate student Joe Dittmer and Dan S...

The Oklahoma Tax Commission recently released city sales tax collection figures that primarily represents local tax receipts from December business. The monies they reported this period represent sale...

The Sallisaw Police Department will be conducting speed and traffic enforcement In area of Maple and Taylor and surrounding areas from July 19-26.

With most of Monday’s high drama occurring when the Sallisaw Municipal Authority board debated proposed rate increases before action was tabled — which took center stage early into the Sallisaw City C...

The store front of Roland’s Dollar General store was shattered by early Friday morning’s storm that blew threw eastern Sequoyah County. The Roland Fire Department reported the storm wreaked havoc in t...

Sweeping proposed rate increases — primarily to Sallisaw’s sanitation, water and sewer services, as well as for landfill usage — touched off a contentious and potentially unresolvable debate Monday th...

Look out, Harvey Specter, James Limbaugh may be coming for your corner office at the law firm Pearson Hardman. Limbaugh, a 2018 graduate of Sallisaw and a graduate of the University of Central Oklahom...

Justus Christie of Vian, better known by his nickname “Tuffy” is a busy man. At age 34, he’s in the process of obtaining his Masters degree, running a mowing business, being a father, and closing on t...

Sallisaw Police Captain John Weber and Officer Wesley McGuirt, who in May risked their lives in slamming head on into an SUV that was fleeing law enforcement and was speeding toward the heart of the c...

A Sallisaw man is charged with felony child abuse after it was alleged he beat a child under the age of four with a sandal, after the child accidentally used the bathroom on the floor. Joseph B. Hayne...

A Vian man reportedly died Thursday evening due to injuries he sustained in a two-vehicle collision. Fort Smith police reported Austin Thompson, 31, was driving a motorcycle northbound on Towson Avenu...

An arrest warrant has been issued for a Fort Smith man accused of discharging a weapon at two women from a vehicle last month. Anthony Massengill, 40, was charged June 27 in Sequoyah County District C...

Sequoyah County 911 has issued a flood watch alert from the National Weather Service in Tulsa for the period from 9:30 p.m. Thursday, July 13, to 7 a.m. Saturday, July 15.

How is it that this sweet girl, Cindy, has been in the shelter for 609 days? She absolutely loves people and other dogs, but we have no idea about cats. She can jump like a frog, and would make an exc...

Shiloh is a sweet girl. She’s believed to be a Boston Terrier mix, and about 2 years old. Now, she just needs a family of her own to give her the love she deserves. To provide her with a forever home,...

Sasha and Scrappy are Corgi mix, and are about 3 or 4 months old. Sasha (left) is a female, and Scrappy (right) is a male. They are both learning “what the leash is about” right now, and love to cuddl...

T.J. is a male Bassett/Shepherd mix, and could possibly be housebroken. One thing he enjoys and loves most is his long walks. If you can provide T.J. with a loving home, contact the Sallisaw Animal Ca...

River Road Neighborhood Association met at Anthony Acres June 30 to donate the remaining funds to Rural Fire Protection Department No. 1. President Terry Jarrard, secretary Billie Anthony and member J...

The Roland Chamber of Commerce reported a great turnout for the 2023 Iron Mountain Festival & Freedom Celebration, as well as the third annual Iron Mountain Festival Cornhole Tournament, which were he...