A Vian man is facing a felony charge of sexual battery after he reportedly touched a woman inappropriately and then made an alleged comment in sexual nature to a teenaged girl. Loyd Franklin Foreman, ...

Oklahoma Blood Institute (OBI) will host a blood drive in Vian on Friday, May 29, from 1 to 6 p.m. in the bloodmobile parked at Marvin’s IGA. Healthy donors are urged to give blood, and appointments a...

Sequoyah County District Judge Jeff Payton said last week court proceedings would be conducted as was ordered in March by the State Supreme Justice with a few additional measures when the county court...

Vian Police Chief Mark Fisher reported early Friday morning that two vehicles were involved in a ‘smash and grab’ outside The Field House in downtown Vian. Fisher said the incident happened around 7 a...

The Sequoyah County Times and KXMX, Mix 105.1, will be sponsoring public forums for candidates seeking office in the upcoming Primary election. Jeff Mayo, publisher of the Sequoyah County Times, and D...

A new bank account number has been assigned to local dialysis patient, Arch Redburn, who is currently undergoing dialysis three times a week until he can receive a kidney transplant. Redburn’s mother,...

The Town of Gore has scheduled a spring clean up from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 6. Gore Public Works Authority (GPWA) customers will be allowed to dispose of undesirable items with some excep...

The Cherokee Nation is canceling the 2020 Remember the Removal Bike Ride in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision was made out of an abundance of caution. The trek across seven states was in...

It’s difficult to say which weather hazard should claim top billing for April. Two late season freeze events made their pitch by battering the state’s winter wheat crop and fruit orchards, primarily o...

Matthew Critttenden, Webbers Falls police chief, was formally charged on May 7 in Muskogee County District Court following an alleged incident that took place with another fellow officer. Crittenden, ...

On Sunday, mothers and grandmothers who are residents of Vian Nursing and Rehab were treated to visits from immediate family members on Mother’s Day. Jackie Ackerman of Vian said she visited her moth...

The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) would like to mark National Nurses Day by thanking all the hard-working nurses for their continued dedication during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We greatly a...

Rebecca Gaglia, a second-year medical student and Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. student at OSU Center for Health Sciences, was on spring break when the COVID-19 pandemic reached Oklahoma in March. Watchin...

Each May, during National Foster Care Month, we take the time to raise awareness of the children and families involved in the foster care system and the need for more people to step up to help them. “...

Deer hunters will have more opportunities to harvest antlerless deer this fall, and waterfowlers will have more hunting days in the middle of the season, after the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Comm...

In 1990, Tommy Wright of Vian was the second recipient of the Sequoyah County Farm Bureau Scholarship. This year, his son, Cash Wright is recipient of that same honor. Gary Acker, president of Sequoya...

Kristopher Michael Moore (Republican) is running for U.S. Senate in Oklahoma in 2022. He grew up on a small farm in Okmulgee and has three older sisters. His father is a Dr. of Pharmacy and a minister...

Friday was the last day of work in Sallisaw for Sequoyah County Sheriff ’s Investigator Christian Goode who has taken a new position as an investigator for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation i...

Public consciousness and concern surrounding the threat of the invasive Asian giant hornet is on the rise. Oklahoma State University entomology and plant pathology professor Wyatt Hoback is available ...

Editor’s note: If the age does not appear next to a name, it was not listed in the court record. Felony Docket Tesha Blount, 39, Sallisaw: Unlawful poss. of CD with intent to distribute; Unlawful poss...