Sallisaw News

The annual Veterans Day Ceremony sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday on the lawn at Stanley Tubbs Memorial Library in Sallisaw.

Luo Yulong, left, owner of Shenglong Group Co. Ltd., shakes hands with John Beattie, plant manager at the new SLW Automotive Inc., formerly BorgWarner.

A sex offender who failed to register was arrested on Denton Street in Sallisaw Oct.

Jack Wickett, left, and brother Gerald was awarded three trophies during the Kool Cars, Guitars, and Handlebars car show Oct.

A Sequoyah County resident was terminated from the Community Sentencing Program and sentenced to five years in prison Sequoyah County District Attorney Jerry S. Moore announced recently.

Sallisaw police arrested four men accused in a string of burglaries and vandalisms in Sequoyah County.

On Wednesday Sallisaw Police and District 27 Drug Task Force served five narcotic search warrants and arrested nine people including one juvenile.

Sallisaw High School invites all parents and students of Sequoyah County high schools as well as eighth graders and their parents from Brushy, Marble City, and Tommie Spear Middle Schools to the annual Career and College Fair from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday in the Sallisaw High School commons area.

Wylie Paul Cole displays the book he wrote about his great-grandfather, John Hunt Cole, who is buried in the Vian Cemetery.

A semi tractor-trailer traveling west and laden with cattle, toppled over and slid across the eastbound lane on Interstate 40 in Sequoyah County Thursday injuring one person and killing 20 head of cattle.

Sallisaw School Board of Education members approved a resolution during the Oct.

David Dewayne Collins was charged with first-degree murder Sept. 30 and additional charges of first-degree arson and possession of a firearm after former felony convictions were added Oct.

Hilldale High School sophomore Brittani Echols spent part of her school day Wednesday getting her eyebrows waxed.

A jockey was killed when he fell from his horse during a race at Blue Ribbon Downs in Sallisaw.

Sheldon J. Sperling, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced Thursday that Larry Eugene Walden, 57, of Stigler pleaded guilty to three counts of bank robbery, including the robbery at National Bank of Sallisaw on April 30.

Eastside and Liberty Elementary Schools in Sallisaw will be hosting a H1N1 shot clinic on Wednesday for elementary students.

The Boys and Girls Club of Sequoyah County second annual Taste of Sallisaw will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Sallisaw High School Commons Area.

ESTATE AUCTION OF PAULINE DANIELS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 AT 10:00 AM, 1 BLOCK SOUTH OF LAKE REGION OFFICES IN HULBERT, OKLAHOMA.

A rider at Blue Ribbon Downs died Oct. 18 after he fell from a horse during the first race at the Sallisaw, Okla., track.

Recently, Randy Freeman, Sallisaw Animal Control Officer, spoke to Sallisaw Chamber of Commerce members about the need for animal control, and the need for spaying and neutering animals, at a meeting of the Sallisaw Chamber of Commerce.