The 34th Annual Miss Merry Christmas Pageant will be held Saturday, Nov. 17 at the Roxy Theater in Muskogee. The pageant is open to girls from birth to 18 years. Everyone that enters will receive a tr...

A hospice volunteers orientation will be held Oct 19 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Peters Agency Care Management in Sallisaw. Contact Crystal Mc-Cawley, volunteer coordinator at 918-315-8078 or 888-516-65...

Vian Baptist Church An allegory is a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. John Bunyan saw the effective use Jesus made of par...

The Christian Union Station It’s very important to know which highway you’re on. Your life depends on it! Please do some introspection on how you’re living. When I was younger, I enjoyed listening to:...

The Cookson United Methodist Women will be having their annual Bazaar on Nov. 16, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Nov. 17, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thanksgiving dinner will also be served at 5 p.m. on Nov. 17....

“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil…afterward He was hungry… the tempter came to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread...

Free Gospel Fest will be held Saturday, Oct. 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. at 102560 S. 4620 Rd, next to Blunt Baptist Church, 4.5 miles north of downtown Sallisaw. The Gospel Fest will be featuring “The Winni...

Flu shots will be given at the Evening Shade Community Building on Oct. 18 from 6 to 8 p.m. The shots will be for adults only, no children. Participants will need to bring their insurance card or Medi...

On Oct. 17 at 6 p.m. parents of JOM eligible children will have an opportunity to get involved in the development of the JOM program at Vian Public School.  Elections for JOM Indian Education Committe...

Vian United Methodist Church What’s the first thing you do when you get up in the morning? Whatever it is, it’s probably the same thing every day. Everyone seems to have their own special ritual, thei...

Our meeting this week covered “8 Fitness Tips That Are More Harmful Than Good.”  We learned that it doesn’t matter what time you exercise and that exercise and diet are the best way to lose weight. We...

The Vian Lions Club will be hosting a silent auction, Nov. 1 through 9 inside the lobby of Armstrong Bank, Vian branch. Anyone wishing to drop off donated items for the auction are asked to do so by F...

Jessie Martin of Vian was the winner of the Vian Fire Department’s Thompson Center .50 caliber muzzleloader raffle on Saturday. Steven Reeves with the fire department is shown presenting the gun to Ma...

Katie Richey, 7 Vian Elementary If you could shrink an animal down to mouse-sized pet, which one would you choose? A puppy! What would you name it? I’d name it Nikki. What would it eat? Milk. Kalvin ...

George Bormann is not without some experience as he takes over for the City of Sallisaw’s Director of Economic Development. Bormann was named to the position Sept. 5, but he has been assisting with ec...

As of press time Friday, four people have filed for an open Vian trustee seat that was vacated by former trustee and vice mayor Chad Ford, after he resigned last month after moving out of town limits,...

The Vian Lions Club 40th annual Christmas Parade of Lights will be held Thursday, Dec. 6. Line-up starts at 5:30 pm, judging at 5:45 p.m. and the parade will begin at 6 p.m. This year’s theme is “Home...

The town of Gore has filed a motion to compel discovery in connection with a continuing civil action filed by the town on Dec. 4, 2017. The original petition is asking the court for a declaratory judg...

The Oklahoma State Election Board has been notified by the National Association of Secretaries of State and the National Association of State Election Directors of a potential scam involving phone cal...

A husband and wife, both charged with harboring a fugitive, have been scheduled for a preliminary hearing at 9 a.m. Dec. 10 before Special District Judge Matt Orendorff. Robert Carl Ward, Sr. and Juli...