Vian’s 4th annual Burnin Down Main Street, featuring a car show, burnout and cruise night is set for Saturday, Oct. 16, in downtown Vian at the Anna Belle Farmer Park. This year’s event is hosted once...

A man with addresses in both Sallisaw and Vian has been charged with a felony count of possession of stolen vehicle after he was found to be driving a stolen car in Gore. Billy D. Rowell, 64, was char...

Thirty years ago a small group of senior volunteers embarked on a mission to locate and honor Oklahoma citizens who had reached the age of 100 years or older. In 2020, even with a major pandemic decim...

Vian has welcomed it’s first professional dog grooming business and boarding facility Ȧbby’s Angels Grooming Salon opened Monday, Oct. 4, in the former Reflection’s Beauty Shop building located at 10...

A Women in the Outdoors (WITO) event is scheduled for the first weekend in November at Tenkiller State Park, north of Vian. This womenonly event is hosted by the National Wild Turkey Federation’s (NWT...

Carter Madsen Age 11, vian If you were to name a new planet, what would you call it? Zeus, because all the other planets were named after Greek Gods. If you could have any animal as a pet, what would...

Linemen with Cookson Hills Electric worked for over eight hours Sunday replacing a double circuit pole from the vian Substation that was reportedly destroyed earlier in the day by a car crash. Cookson...

A ribbon cutting was held last Friday by the Sallisaw Chamber of Commerce to welcome its newest member, Akins Store (BBQ, Feed & More). New owners since December, Brooke and Seth Lattimore said the st...

The Town of Gore presents ‘Day @ The Park’ on Saturday, Oct. 9, at Ray Fine Park in Gore. The day will start at 10 a.m. with a Little Miss Gore pageant and a 3-on-3 basketball tournament; followed by...

A man charged in July with shooting two good Samaritans after they offered roadside assistance on U.S. Interstate-40 just west of Vian has been extradited back to Sequoyah County. Lee B. King, 27, is...

Officers of the Gore and Webbers FFA Chapters participated in the 2021 Oklahoma FFA Chapter Officer Leadership Training (COLT) Conference, Sept. 14, at the Glenpool Conference in Glenpool. Eight stat...

Romans 9:21 “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?” There are two very distinct methods of making a sculpture. There is ...

The Crossing Church will host a Fall Festival on Saturday, Oct. 30 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Admission is free. There will be fun for all ages, including games, candy, hot dogs, prizes and more! The chur...

The family of Lois Fullbright of Sallisaw is requesting a card shower in honor of her 100th birthday which was on Friday, Oct. 1. She was born in the Hanson area and has been a resident of Akins and S...

Doers of the word withstand life’s storms. In Matthew 7:24-27, the same storm and wind came upon both of these houses– the one built on the rock and the one built on the sand. Pastor Kenneth Byrd T h ...

Heath Orabanec of Gore is among several firemen from Oklahoma and Arkansas who recently returned from Louisiana as a member of the Arkansas Hurricane Strike Team, which assisted with the aftermath of...

We all must turn to God and humble ourselves in all things! We must obey His laws and come to The Door of Life: Jesus Christ! II Chronicles 1 1 7:11-18 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and...

Editor’s note: If the age does not appear next to a name, it was not listed in the court record. Felony Docket Jeffery Lee Thornburg, 49, Muldrow: Endangering others while eluding/attempting to elude ...

“Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, Where there is no standing; I have come into deep waters, Where the floods overflow me. I am weary with my crying; My thro...

The Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center in Muskogee and Ernest Childers VA Outpatient Clinic in Tulsa are now giving flu shots to enrolled Veterans. At the Muskogee hospital, a clinic has been set up...