News
The Stanley Tubbs Memorial Library and the Oklahoma Healthy Aging Initiative (OHAI) Northeast Center of Healthy Aging are collaborating to provide the Healthy Brain, Healthy Mind Program.
Cherese Riggs, MS, LPC-S, of Sallisaw, earned the prestigious Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor (RPT-S) credential conferred by the Association for Play Therapy (APT), according to its CEO Kathr
Sports
Russell Westbrook said good-bye Friday with an Instagram post.
By Berry Tramel
Outdoors
There has been an up-tick in reported mountain lion sightings lately.
By Ed Godfrey
Commentary
I recently rode with the Oklahoma National Guard in a Black Hawk helicopter to observe flood damage in Webbers Falls and the Muskogee area. The breadth of the damage is sobering.
By Randleman
It’s been said, “You never know a man’s true worth until he’s gone.” It was true of Jesus. Nobody on earth, even those closest to Him, fully appreciated Him till after His death.
By Reverend Marcia Martin
Lifestyle
First Missionary Baptist Church in Vian will be honoring their pastor, Mack Jackson, III, and Sister Everteen Jackson for their 16th Pastoral Anniversary on Sunday, July 28, at 2:30 p.m.
Winners of the cornhole tournament during Vian’s Summer Games were, Bo and Dalton Admire – First Place; Bobby
Shannon Johnson (pictured above) of Vian may have a disability but she has not let it slow her down, she says.
Obituaries
Scranton, Ark. - Graveside services for Dorothy Jean Cato, 95, of Scranton, Ark. were held Fri., July 12, 2019 at 10 a.m.
Sallisaw – Funeral services for Mac Dotson, 79, of Sallisaw, were held at 2 p.m. Friday, July 12, 2019, at Hillside Pentecostal Church of God in Sallisaw.
Sallisaw – Jeffery Lewis MeGee, 44, of Sallisaw was born Aug. 9, 1974 to James Lewis Stephens and Alta May Davis Harp and passed this life Wed., July 10, 2019 in Salli-saw.