District STAR Events were held at the ICTC Muskogee campus on Nov. 12 with 19 chapters from Northeast District 5 in attendance. Members of the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America were giv...

Sallisaw Middle School Art and STEM class students recently participated in the annual ICTC "You Build It" competition. October is recognized as construction month and students learned many skills nec...

Marble City students enjoyed celebrating Cultural Day on Nov. 13. Cultural Day was made possible with the help of American Indian Resource Center - David Comingdeer with Stickball, Woody Hansen with S...

Members of the Oklahoma Home and Community Education (OHCE) group of Sequoyah County visited the Brushy School on Friday to present a dental health program to Tina Cardwell’s and Jan Philpot’s kinderg...

Roland Elementary third grade Gifted and Talented students listened to “How to Catch a Turkey” before taking the AR test. The students were then put into groups of two, and given a challenge card. The...

Tidy Up Tenkiller and Illinois River’s fall cleanup event collected a total of 9.51 tons of trash, according to figures released by the Oklahoma Ozarks Tourism Association (OOTA), formerly known as th...

Sequoyah Animal Advocates are sponsoring a free pet bed giveaway and vaccination clinic from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Sequoyah County Fairgrounds. Rabies vaccinations will be given for...

Muldrow Public Schools has announced their District site teachers of the year. Kate Smith has been selected as Muldrow Elementary’s teacher of the year, Tracy Ryan for Muldrow Middle School, and Greg ...

Bill and Betty Land recently celebrated their 72nd wedding anniversary. The Lands were married on Oct. 20, 1952, by Dr. Stanley Jordan at First Baptist Church, Van Buren, Ark. The couple resided for t...

This November, Oklahomans have a chance to take a significant step toward a tobacco-free life during the Great American Smokeout on Thursday, November 21, an annual event organized by the American Can...

The Sallisaw Police Department will be conducting speed and traffic enforcement on Cherokee from Wheeler East city limits from Nov. 20-27.

Indian Capital Technology Center (ICTC) has announced the appointment of Ginger Knight to its Board of Education, effective Nov. 6. Knight succeeds Jerry Needham, who has served the board with dedicat...

You’ll forgive Sallisaw Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Marty Green this time of year if he channels his inner Clement C. Moore. For the next month, Green may not have visions of sugar plums da...

The question about whether Sequoyah County should assess a 4% lodging tax on those who stay at airbnbs or motels in the county will not be answered in January 2025 as was previously proposed. At Tuesd...

City council watchers — and, more importantly, those interested in the search for a new Sallisaw city manager — had their eye on the scheduled executive session during Tuesday’s city commissioners mee...

An arrest warrant has been issued for a Sallisaw man charged with child sexual abuse in Sequoyah County District Court. Jeremy K. Shuman Jr., 41, was charged on Oct. 30 and a warrant was issued for hi...

Nov. 16-17 Merchants’ Christmas Open House Sallisaw merchants offer festive holiday sales, complimentary refreshments and new items for Christmas. Nov. 21 Annual Christmas Tree Lighting Downtown Salli...

After years in the sun-soaked streets of Key West, Mike and Lisa Bennett weren’t exactly planning to become rural Oklahomans. But one weekend at Lake Tenkiller changed everything. The Bennetts had com...

The Board of Education of Moffett Public School District hereby announces that statutorily qualified individuals interested in running for the No. 2 seat on the Moffett Board of Education may file to ...

Sallisaw student Nicci Davis placed third in her respective category at the American Farmers & Ranchers (AFR) Northeast District Speech Contest held in Sapulpa on Nov. 12. She competed in the Intermed...