Anyone in need of clothing can visit God’s Blessings Clothes Closet in Vian. The clothes closet will be open on Saturday, June 5, for anyone needing clothing or other neessary items. For more info, ca...

The Oklahoma Tax Commission recently released city sales tax collection figures that primarily represents local tax receipts from March business. The monies they reported this period represent sales f...

Josie Moore, a Gore High School student, earned first place in 12th grade writing in the recent statewide Law Day Contest sponsored by the Oklahoma Bar Association. She was honored by Supreme Court Ch...

Chairman of the Sequoyah County Board of Commissioners Jim Rogers said the county should receive the first half of $8 million from the U.S. Department of Treasury soon and will appear to him like kids...

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles on how the McGirt Supreme Court ruling is affecting the court system and law enforcement. At the time the United States Supreme Court ruled on ...

The OSU Extension office is offering Co-Parenting for Resilience classes. These classes are designed to help parents help their children, April Olsen, FCS/4H/CED for OSU Cooperative Extension office i...

Spring has arrived. With it comes a more colorful landscape, warmer weather and a renewed sense of hope and starting fresh. Spring is also bringing good news regarding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. W...

Almost half of the nurse refresher course scholarships funded by the Masonic Charity Foundation of Oklahoma are still available to nurses who want to return to the field or enter it for the first time...

The Blackgum Volunteer Fire Department will be hosting a pancake breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 29, at the Blackgum Community Center. Cost is $7 for adults and $5 for children 12 and und...

God will not be mocked! Honor God in all things you think, say, and do! Give God the glory! Galatians 6:1-18 1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one i...

Editor’s note: If the age does not appear next to a name, it was not listed in the court record. Felony Docket Buddy E. Brown, 54, Roland: DUI–alcohol; TOC–liquor. Eunice Fayne, 35, Arlington, Tenn.: ...

AA Meetings are now being held in Vian at a new location, Vian United Methodist Church, located at the corner of Lee and Blackstone Streets. The meetings will be held each week on Tuesday and Friday, ...

The Vian Ministerial Alliance presents Preaching in the Park every Wednesday night in the downtown Anna Bell Farmer Park beginning at 6 p.m. (weather permitting), June 2. A different Alliance Pastor w...

Editor’s Note: Richard Tyler made the following statement as his announcement in running for the office Cherokee Nation Tribal Council District 5. “I have been asked many times what my platform is tha...

Governor Kevin Stitt appointed Billy Taylor to the Oklahoma State Board of Regents for the Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges on April 30. “I am thrilled to have both Billy Taylor serving on the Okl...

Bryon Mefford may live in Marble City, but his line of work gives him the opportunity to see people near and far everyday while he’s maintaining the buildings for the Oklahoma Travel Information Cente...

A benefit has been scheduled for June 6 at the Sallisaw VFW for Kara Copeland, 49, of Vian, who is undergoing cancer treatment and scheduled for surgery on May 14 in Tulsa. Joan Smith, friend of Copel...

A Gore man was sentenced on April 27 for failing to register as a sex offender according to a report released by the Sequoyah County District Attorney’s office. Morris Lynn Lusk, 56, was arrested and ...

A Vian man is facing a felony charge of battery/assault and battery on a police officer after he reportedly struck a county deputy on the jaw after being confronted by him while walking across the Ill...

Nathan Hubler of Sallisaw is among 165 students eligible to graduate in May from the University of Oklahoma with a perfect 4.0 grade-point average throughout their undergraduate careers at OU. Of the ...