Following a meeting of the Vian Board of Education on April 11, Vian School Superintendent Victor Salcedo said the majority of teachers, staff personnel and administration currently employed at the sc...

Left to right, Parker Rogers, Samantha Buchanan, Rha'Shawn Jones, Mason Louthan, Brody Edwards, Aspyn Smith and Oaklee Faldon. Not pictured, Drake Walters and Blakely Reese. SUBMITTED PHOTO

The Sallisaw Middle School (SMS) Students of the Month for May were selected for the character trait- Integrity/Leadership.

After 37 years in the teaching profession, Debbie Lewis of Vian and her friend, another teacher, decided to open a consignment and booth rental shop in downtown Sallisaw. With the weather warming up, ...

Quick and Easy Meals A Few Of My Favorite Things With Katina Holland Thu, 04/21/2022 - 17:13

Stephen Dorius may be from Utah but has made Sequoyah County his temporary home in a ministry which he has chosen or maybe one that has chosen him. Dorius, a missionary, is part of a ministry organize...

Krystel Willard works in an ideal environment to hit the ground running each morning she has to work as a barista at Aroma‚s Coffee Shop in Sallisaw. The coffee shop, which opened in 2000, not only of...

Barbara Gipson of Sallisaw loves children, books and teaching. So much that although she is semiretired, Gipson still teaches second graders as a reading specialist, two mornings a week at Liberty Ele...

Evlynn Schonefeld of Sallisaw never meets a stranger and is always full of energy, according to her grandmother Ä–vlynn, 6, is a student at Liberty Elementary in Sallisaw and has spent most of her ti...

Lisa Langdell graduated from Sallisaw High School and did not go to college. Instead, Langdell decided to follow in the footsteps of her grandmother and her mother and operate her own business and now...

Funeral services for Carolyn Jean (Dowdy) Davis, 70, of Roland, were held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, at Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Roland. Burial followed at Memory Garden Cemetery i...

Funeral services for Sarah Christen (McConnell) Rodgers were held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, at Blackgum First Baptist Church in Vian. Mrs. Rodgers was born on Sept. 25, 1983, to Les and D...

Orville Frank New, 78 of Gore, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021, in Vian. He was born on Sept. 28, 1943, in Webbers Falls to Grace Leona (Williams) New and George Oscar New. He was married to Pa...

Dean Louis Thompson, 86, of Gore, passed away Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, at his home. He was born Jan. 17, 1935, in Allen County, Harrod, Ohio, to Ralph Thompson and Lova Thompson. Dean was a 1954 Bloom...

Lilah Grace Owens, 17 months old, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021. She was born on July 2, 2020, in Fort Smith to Josh and Rachael Owens. Lilah of was full of life, fearless, never met a strang...

Easy Breads A Few Of My Favorite Things With Katina Holland Thu, 11/25/2021 - 20:04

November is when the United States celebrates Native American Heritage Month. At Cherokee Nation, we will certainly spend this month celebrating our heritage and culture with the rest of the country. ...

“There‚s only one thing worse than eating next to a left-handed person, and that‚s heading for him. It‚s like trying to screw the male end of a garden house into the matching threads on your stock tan...