High School Softball Vian’s high school softball team reached the Big 8 Conference Tournament title game by winning a combined four games on Thursday and Friday but the Lady Wolverines lost 10-2 to O...

Officials with the State Department of Transportation (ODOT) said anyone whose vehicle suffered damage recently from a pothole located at one of the bridge joints on I-40 can file a claim with the sta...

Vian Baptist Church John 8:7 -11 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped ...

Indian Capital Technology Center was honored with the Oklahoma Association of Technology Centers’ Gold Star School Award at the 2019 Oklahoma Summit in Oklahoma City on Aug. 1. The Gold Star School Aw...

The Carl Albert State College Board of Regents recently named Jaime Henson the Interim Campus Director of CASC Sallisaw after Bryan Warner’s victory in his race for Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation...

I had a choice to make at one time in my life. I had a world view to release and turn away from. I had consequences to face from my choices of the past. I knew that I had made a conscious decision to ...

One thing Shelly Girten-Miller found lacking in Sallisaw was a full-fledged health food store, and she is planning to remedy that by the middle of September. Miller is in the process of making that a ...

Changing With Age Every year the seasons come and go, We adapt to summer heat and winter snow. As time goes by our bodies change, too, Viewing what we see can leave us blue. Compliments once received ...

Jennifer Byers was videoing the rain Sunday in Vian when she unexpectedly caught a bolt of lightning striking a tree. “Oddly the tree didn’t catch fire,” Byers, who lives on US-SH 82 near the Box Comm...

The Christian Union Station He said, “I didn’t feel a thing.” We were talking about his call to the altar to receive salvation from the Lord. Did you feel anything when you asked Jesus Christ to save ...

Be a hero and give blood! The Vian Boots and Badges Community Challenge Blood Drive will be held Friday, Aug. 30 from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Bloodmobile at Marvin’s IGA. To schedule your appointment, cont...

Last Tuesday morning longtime former owners of Rob’s Drive In, Rob and Pat Smith, watched as town workers demolished what was left of the beloved building that served up hamburgers and ice cream to V...

A 38-year-old Fort Smith, Ark., man died Thursday morning after the vehicle he was driving struck a ditch embankment south of Gans. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported Matt C. Hutchinson was pronounc...

The Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program serves residents in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and residential care homes. The Ombudsman Program serves these residents by visiting residents, inves...

The Blackgum Fire Department will have a pancake breakfast on Saturday, Aug. 31, from 7 to 11 a.m. at the Black-gum Community Building, located 2 1/3 miles West of McQuicks on Hwy 100 or ½ mile East o...

Funeral services for William J. “Bill” Kupers, 45, of Fort Smith, Ark. an officer with the Vian Police Department, were held Mon., Aug. 19, 2019 at 10 a.m. at Ocker-Putman Funeral Home Chapel in Fort ...

Dear Editor, We would like to thank everyone for their thoughts, prayers, flowers and acts of kindness shown to us during the loss of our beloved, Patsy Jamison. Thank you to Pastor Marcia Martin for ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA) today announced it will defer accrual of interest for all agricultural producers’ spring 2019 crop year insurance premiums to h...

Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma will be at Gardenwalk Apartments in Vian for a free, mobile pantry food distribution on Friday, August 23 beginning at 11 a.m. at the apartment complex, 208 N. ...

Another one of Vian’s Favorite Sons for 2019 was Johnny Teehee, son of Johnson Teehee and Ella Spears. He attended Vian Public Schools from first to 12th grade and while in high school, he lettered in...