The Kozie Quilters of Sequoyah County hosted a Quilts of Valor presentation on Oct. 1, at Trinity Methodist Church, east of Muldrow on Hwy. 64. Eight veterans were each recognized for their service to...

The Central Tigers celebrated their football homecoming prior to Friday night’s District AII-3 home game against No. 1 Talihina at Tiger Stadium. Homecoming king Mekko Ariza (top left) crowned Madison...

The Muldrow Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary Post 8384 is offering two scholarship contests and awards to local students, Voice of Democracy (VOD) and Patriot’s Pen (PP). This year’s theme for b...

When the lowest bid for construction of the new Sequoyah County Courthouse annex came in at $4 million — about twice as much as county commissioners had anticipated — it sent shockwaves through the co...

Despite the recent abrupt resignation of Brad Taylor as director of Sequoyah County Emergency Management, county commissioners aren’t panicking. After all, Cherokee County has apparently taken the “Fr...

Rep. Tim Turner, R-Kinta, on Tuesday at the state Capitol recognized two men he describes as heroes. First was Haskell County Assistant District Attorney James Green who received the 2025 Award of Exc...

The Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence (OFE) is now accepting applications for the 2026 Academic All-State class. Each year, OFE honors 100 public high school seniors as Academic All-Staters. Students...

CASA for Children is urgently seeking at least 25 additional community members to step in and serve as Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) volunteers for children living in foster care across Mus...

The Boys & Girls Club of Sequoyah County, Central Unit, is thrilled to announce Hendrix McDonald as their most recent member of the month. Hendrix is the son of Dejuana and Brent McDonald and was sele...

The Boys & Girls Club of Sequoyah County, Roland Unit, is thrilled to honor Lainey Byrd as their most recent member of the month. Lainey is the daughter of Hannah and Nathan Byrd and earned this disti...

The town of Roland is offering an amnesty program for those who have active warrants. You must see the court clerk during regular business hours in order to take advantage of the program. This will ru...

Join OSU Sequoyah County Extension for a prescribed burn meeting at 12 noon on November 10, at the Sequoyah County Fairgrounds. They will be covering the benefits of prescribed burning, how to create ...

Christopher J. Wilson, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, and ATF Dallas Assistant Special Agent in Charge Ashley Stephens joined state, local, and tribal law enforcement to announce ...

Carl Albert State College (CASC) is proud to announce that its Associate of Applied Science in Nursing (AAS-N) program has been named one of the Best Nursing Schools in Oklahoma for 2026, a recognitio...

Two additional arrests were made last Friday in the September shooting of a Sallisaw man who died on Sept. 26 as a result of his injuries. The Sequoyah County Sheriff ’s Office reported Jensyn Rhodes ...

Felony Docket Ricardo D. Floran, 56, Mount Prospect, Ill.: DUI-alcohol (municipal). Donald L. Sumpter Jr, 42, Sallisaw: Burglary in the second degree; Knowingly receiving or concealing stolen property...

Roland High School senior Shyanne Bailey was crowned Roland Public School’s Homecoming Queen prior to the Rangers’ game against Central on Sept. 19. Queen Shyanne was escorted by John Allen and Shane ...

A Muldrow man was killed on September 18 when the vehicle he was riding in was struck by a Union Pacific train at a rural railroad crossing, according to Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP). Troopers report...

Those who know Bethia Owens will surely find it hard to imagine her retirement the way she anticipates her golden years. While she’s surely earned the enjoyable pursuits and fulfillment of leisure-fil...

A local man is charged with failure to register as a sex offender after he was found to be staying in the Roland area after being convicted of rape in Arkansas in 1999. Andre D. Dotson, 48, was charge...