The Vian Board of Trustees covered a packed agenda on June 16, with discussions ranging from community improvements and budget approvals to a new local business and a holiday “Spark in the Dark” fun r...

Dean College is pleased to announce that Haley Phillips of Sallisaw has earned a place on the Dean’s List for the Spring 2025 semester. Students named to the Dean’s List have demonstrated a serious co...

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jimcy McGirt, age 76, of Wewoka, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to one count of Failure to...

The Cherokee Nation’s Children’s Clothing Assistance Program application is now open. To help parents with back-to-school shopping, a one-time payment of $150 through the annual Children’s Clothing As...

Mrs. Spears from Gore Elementary (back row, center) received one of five Tribal Agriculture Fellowship (TAF) Scholarships to the 2025 National Agriculture in the Classroom conference in Minneapolis, M...

The Webbers Falls Board of Trustees tackled a busy agenda during their regular meeting in May, approving key expenditures, recognizing local community efforts and addressing several personnel matters....

Area musician Lane Lowder and his band played a concert at Armstrong Park on Thursday prior to the Vian Community Foundation’s annual Fireworks Extravaganza.

Kelsi Choate of Vian is a new junior member of the American Angus Association, reports Mark McCully, CEO of the national organization with headquarters in Saint Joseph, Mo. Junior members of the Assoc...

The Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) is announcing the FY26 Built Environment Grant opportunity for construction projects that improve Oklahomans’ access to healthy food and clean drinking wa...

Gracie Risley of Vian has signed a letter of intent to the Oklahoma Panhandle State University Livestock Show Team & Judging Team. Risley is a freshman double majoring in Animal Science (nutrition emp...

Webbers Falls Public School Superintendent Chris Whelan was named Outstanding Administrator of the Year at the 2025 Oklahoma Schools Advisory Council Summer Conference (OSAC). Webbers Falls Public Sch...

There are life’s realities that cannot be avoided. The Sequoyah County Commissioners faced one of those at their weekly meeting last Monday. As District 3 Commissioner Jim Rogers explained, because of...

The Oklahoma Dental Association (ODA) today criticized an executive order from Gov. Kevin Stitt that removes a long-held recommendation for appropriate fluoridation in Oklahoma’s public water supplies...

Sequoyah County Democrats Ann Weaver (left), Dr. Paula Haraway and Teresa Caves attended last weekend’s Oklahoma Democratic Party Carl Albert Dinner at Tulsa’s Renaissance Hotel & Conference Center, w...

The Sewing Sisters of Blackgum Harvestime Church are excited to announce their 16th “Quilts of Past & Present Quilt Show” has been scheduled for Friday, July 25 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, Jul...

Fabio the Rock Snake is making his return to the Town of Gore, and they need your help in bringing him back to life. They’re looking for creative kids to design and create Fabio’s head, like Parker (s...

Felony Docket David J. Briggs, 22, Sallisaw: Domestic A&B by strangulation. Austin Foster, 18, Muldrow: Intimidation of witness; Threaten to perform act of violence. Alexiander Labs, 19, Muldrow: Know...

Last weekend, two roads in southeastern Missouri, as well as in several other central states, buckled due to extreme heat. When what appeared to be a similar collapse of state Highway 82 between Mc-Qu...

A routine property visit led to the discovery of an illegal marijuana grow operation in the Marble City/Dwight Mission area last week, resulting in the seizure of over 650 pounds of processed marijuan...

A Gore man was arrested and booked into the Sequoyah County Detention Center after being found in possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), according to Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation ...