While most families were getting ready to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, the family of the late Deana Everett was doing just the opposite. July 3 marked the one-year anniversary of the 22-year...

The Vian Lions Club is excited to be partnering with Vian Public Schools to provide assistance with updating the landscaping outside of the elementary school building. The Lions have scheduled a work ...

Carl Albert State College (CASC) has been ranked among the 50 most affordable community colleges offering online degrees by Affordable Schools. The ranking was published on the organization’s website ...

Vian’s Favorite Sons and Daughters and Mayor’s Choice awards were presented prior to last Wednesday night’s Fireworks Extravaganza on July 3 at St. John Stadium. Pictured from the left is, Vian Counci...

TRANSITION TEAM LEADER APPOINTED On the day Cherokee Nation Supreme Court dismissed claims seeking to invalidate the results of the chief and deputy chief election, Principal-elect Chuck Hoskin Jr. an...

Rogers State University in Claremore has announced the Dean’s Honor Rolls for the spring 2019 semester. Leslie Perkins, of Vian, was listed on the Dean’s Honor Roll. To qualify for the Dean’s Honor Ro...

The City of Sallisaw has completed the purchase of over 90 acres of property west of U.S. Highway 59 South and south of Drake Road for the new Oklahoma Veterans Center. The purchase of the property wa...

Indian Capital Technology Center (ICTC) Sallisaw Campus Director Dart Drummonds announced that Daniel Bost has been honored as the 2018-2019 ICTC-Sallisaw Teacher of the Year and Bradley Scrim-sher ha...

Blackgum Harvestime Church will host Summer Youth Series each Wednesday night in July beginning July 10 through July 31, from 6 to 8 p.m. There will be crafts, games, praise and worship, snacks, prize...

Cooper Shivers, 5 Vian Elementary What is the hardest thing about being a kid? Working out and trying to get big! What do you like about being a kid? Being the boss of the little brother! What three ...

The First Missionary Baptist summer sack lunch program will go from June 13 through July 26. Sack lunches will be available Monday through Friday from 12 to 1 p.m. for all school age children and anyo...

Under a new program offered by Carl Albert State College (CASC), students across Sequoyah County will be able to get a jump start on a college education, sometimes without having to leave the school. ...

Last Tuesday Afternoon, The Westside Church Of Christ In Vian Received A New Steeple. (photo By Jan Herod)

Pamela Cowart of the Lake Tenkiller community says she has lived a blessed life of being able to stay at home with her sons while they were growing up. Now several years later, she devotes her time to...

First Missionary Baptist Church in Vian will be honoring their pastor, Mack Jackson, III, and Sister Everteen Jackson for their 16th Pastoral Anniversary on Sunday, July 28, at 2:30 p.m. at the church...

The pastor of Abundant Life Church in Sallisaw is inviting area churches and gospel groups to take part in a Gospel Singing for Moffett Flood Victims tentatively scheduled for July 20. Pastor Johnny M...

State Rep. Jim Olsen (R-Roland) announced that several anonymous donors in the Sallisaw area have come together to provide a $250,000 project initiative. The opportunity will offer concurrent enrollme...

Freedom Sometimes we laugh, other times we cry, For these moments, we need no alibi. We answer to no one personal things we do, Precious freedom provides these rights for you. We work for support, yet...

When people humbly receive the word of God, the scriptures change their lives. This is how we started out with God: “Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word...

The Christian Union Station Thank you all for your interest in my book, “THE MAD HOUSE.” I understand some have come to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, while reading the book, or have draw...