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While a few large Labor Day favorites have been scrapped this year, options still abound for family fun.

TAHLEQUAH — Applications for the 2021-22 Miss Cherokee and Junior Miss Cherokee competitions are now available.

TAHLEQUAH – Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. signed an executive order on May 25 that offers mental wellness leave for the Cherokee Nation’s employees. “This category of leave would provide two hours of leave per month for mental wellness for every employee,” Hoskin said during a short ceremony inside the CN Veterans Center. “It’s not part of your sick leave. It’s not part of your annual leave. It’s part of a new category of leave – mental wellness leave. The thought is that employees should use this to get out of the office. If it’s a beautif...

TAHLEQUAH – The Cherokee Nation on Monday will unveil the tribe’s first rural electric transit buses – among the first in the country – and first electric school bus, which is the first in the state, as part of its efforts to reduce the tribe’s carbon footprint.  The CN celebrates Earth Day by announcing several key initiatives with events planned each day next week.  On Monday at 12:30 p.m.  at the Cherokee Casino Tahlequah electric bus charging station in the northeast parking lot, the announcement of the electric buses will be held.  “Reducing our ...

TAHLEQUAH – The Cherokee Nation in collaboration with the Oklahoma Air National Guard broke ground on April 5 to build homes for veterans at the Mige Glory housing addition.  The project, which was five years in the making, came to fruition as CN officials teamed with the U.S. Department of Defense Innovative Readiness Training program to begin working on 21 homes for Cherokee veterans.  The project will take at least three years, with the building of seven new single-family subsidized homes in the first year.  “We’re going to have around 800 engineers rotating through...