Air fryers cook by circulating hot air around food. A heating element, much like a stove top burner is s ituat e d above the food and then a fan is used to rapidly move the air around the food. Food c...

Former students of Douglas School in Vian are invited to attend an upcoming reunion slated for October 7, 8 and 9, according to Class of 1969 graduates Denise Hayes and James Drew, who are organizing ...

AA Meetings are now being held in Vian Vian United Methodist Church, located at the corner of Lee and Blackstone Streets. The meetings are held each week on Tuesday and Friday, beginning at 7 p.m. For...

Vian Band Alumni Night will be held on Sept. 30, which is Vian High School’s Homecoming. The Band Boosters will be feeding the band alumni before the game, at the same time they feed the band students...

The Cherokee Nation on Monday passed a $3.5 billion budget, the largest operating budget in the tribe’s history. The Council of the Cherokee Nation approved the Fiscal Year 2023 General Operating Budg...

This year’s Fin & Feather Fall Festival will be held Sept. 23-25 at the Fin & Feather Resort near Lake Tenkiller. The annual arts and crafts festival will feature over 170 arts and crafts vendors/bout...

Ruby and Raymond Pigeon of Vian are accepting donations of clothing and other items to give to others in need. Items can be dropped off at their residence, 215 South Suzanne St. The racks are displaye...

The Vian Board of Education met on Sept. 12 where it voted to start accepting bids on revamping the school’s old rock gymnasium and approved several temporary contracts during an executive session. Th...

The Gore Board of Education met for its regular monthly meeting and a special meeting on Sept. 8 where board members approved bids for the taxable building bonds of the school district, awarding the l...

“Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:” “For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live;” “For I know your manifold transgressions And your mi...

CASA for Children is seeking more volunteers to advocate for the best interest of children in foster care in Muskogee, Sequoyah, Wagoner, and McIntosh Counties. “We want every child involved in the ch...

Vian Baptist Church Jeremiah 35:5-6 “And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. But they said, We will drink no wine: fo...

Round Mountain Community Church Philippians 3:12-14: Not as though I had already att ained, ne it he r were alr eady perfect; but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am appre...

The UAFS Theatre Department will present its fall show, Roald Dahl’s James and The Giant Peach, Oct. 6-9 at Breedlove Auditorium. The play was adapted for the stage by David Wood, and will feature ori...

The polling place for Precinct 203 has been changed, Cindy Osborn, Secretary of the Sequoyah County Election Board, said. Voters in Precinct 203 formerly voted at the Vian Nutrition Center, 111 S. Bla...

A Gore man is facing felony theft charges in Sequoyah County District Court after being charged in two separate cases on the same day. Bentley J. Knowlton, 26, was charged on Aug. 24 with knowingly re...

The Wolverine Den of Kids Learning Center has sold and is now under new ownership, according to former owner, Emma Montgomery. Montgomery said the business sold to Crystal Campbell on Sept. 1. “Nine y...

Harps Food Stores, Inc. has appointed Derrick Kelly as the new District Manager for Harps locations in Eastern Oklahoma. Kelly began his career with Harps in August of 2003 as the Dairy Manager at Sto...

A grand opening was held at 10 a.m. on Sept. 1 for Webbers Falls’ new flower shop, Hollis Flowers & Gifts, located on Main Street. Eddie Cassinger with the Webbers Falls Chamber of Commerce said they ...

The Gore Band of Pirates recently received a $5,000 donation from Matt and Whitney Holland. The donation was a show of support and appreciation of Gore Schools and especially the band program that hol...