He sold the track to an investment group in 1973. Legalization of gambling on horse racing did not occur until 1982, so the first pari-mutuel race occurred August 30, 1984. This caused a short-term boom in track-related businesses. However, the popularity waned and the track struggled financially. The Choctaw Nation bought the facility in 2003 for $4.25 million, put in more capital and converted it to a "racino" that combined the race track with a casino. Despite the improvements, BRD was not a financial success and closed permanently in 2010. the Choctaw Nation tried to sell the operation on two occasions, but the deals fell through. Then, just one day before the track was to be sold at a sheriff's auction in November 2003, the Cherokee Nation purchased the property for $2.5 million. The Cherokee chief, Chad Smith, said that his nation did not plan to resume horse racing at the site, but is considering other options for using the land. He admitted that using the track as a training facility would also be considered. The only commercial manufacturing reported in Sallisaw has been the BorgWarner Morse Tech, a maker of auto parts and plastic foam packing materials. The post office is located at 111 McGee Drive, on the east side of town. Its main public schools are Liberty Elementary, Eastside Elementary, Sallisaw Middle School, and Sallisaw High School which is located on West Ruth Avenue. In higher education, it features a branch of Carl Albert State College, based in Poteau. A campus of Indian Capital Technology Center is also located in Sallisaw. The Stanley Tubbs Memorial Library (pictured above) is a branch of the Eastern Oklahoma District Library System (EODLS). The system, headquartered in Muskogee, Oklahoma, serves 15 branch libraries in Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, McIntosh, Muskogee and Sequoyah Counties. EOLDS provides resources to all of its branches, helping them provide more access to their patrons for use of books, newspapers, magazines, videos and books on tape from any of the EODLS libraries. Examples of such resources include: Interlibrary Loan (ILL), Electronic Databases, Internet Access (free) and an electronic District-wide Catalog. The Sallisaw Branch is located in a historic building that once was the Sallisaw railroad station. It is open Monday through Friday and on Saturday mornings. The hospital is Northeastern Health Systems Sequoyah (formerly Sequoyah Memorial Hospital), at 213 Redwood Avenue.