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Friday, 12 February 2010 18:34 |
BOSWELL — An annual school runoff election will be held for the Board of Education Office No. I-1 in Boswell School District on Tuesday, April 6.
State law requires the runoff election if no candidate in the regular annual school election receives more than 50% of the total votes cast.
Darlene Rickman, secretary of the Choctaw County Election Board, said that Board of Education candidates John Kerr and Robbie Chandler received the highest number of votes in the Feb. 9 election and therefore will meet in the runoff election on April 6.
Kerr received 117 votes in the Annual School Election, while Chandler received 82 votes. A total 308 votes were cast in the election.
Voters who are registered and reside at an address within the geographical boundaries of the Boswell School District are eligible to vote in the second election.
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Thursday, 11 February 2010 20:17 |
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HUGO — Three dozen white vans parked along East Jackson Street in Hugo have been a subject of curiosity for passing motorists for several weeks now. But it’s not a new car lot.
The vans are part of Little Dixie Transit’s effort to modernize its fleet of vehicles. Using $1.4 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) “stimulus” funds, Little Dixie purchased 34 Dodge Caravan/Braun conversion mini-vans and four 24-foot, 15-passenger center-aisle buses.
“All of these units will replace 38 vehicles currently in the fleet,” said Transit Director Jeannie McMillin. “The units being replaced have mileages in excess of 150,000 which is the useful life of a vehicle utilized in public transit.”
Little Dixie Transit received $1,467,587 in ARRA funds. The vans and buses are being prepared for use throughout Little Dixie’s service area, and will soon be seen providing passenger service in six communities in Choctaw, McCurtain and Pushmataha counties. Read the whole story, subscribe to the online edition: http://www.hugonews.com/transitionHDN.html |
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Tuesday, 09 February 2010 22:00 |
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By Amber Hanneken
Staff Writer
HUGO — The Hugo School board sanctioned a new PTO for the middle school and the high school principal reported on water leaks in Monday night’s meeting.
Middle school principal Glenn Martin was happy to report that a new Parent Teacher Organization has formed with more than 20 in attendance at the last meeting. He said he is glad to see more parent involvement at the school.
Debbie Golden, high school principal, reported problems with leaks due to Monday’s heavy rainfall. Four classrooms experienced water seeping in from the foundation and students were moved to other parts of the school as the water was pumped out.
She also announced all 120 tickets to the Feb. 23 “A Night of Theater” performance are sold out, but tickets for the Monday, Feb. 22 dinner show are still on sale. The price is $5 for children 12 and under and $8 for everyone else and includes an Italian dinner, musical entertainment and performances of scenes and monologues by the high school drama class. Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. with the show at 7:30 p.m. To buy a ticket, call the high school at 326.9648.
Golden commended all students who recently placed in various livestock shows.
School board members enquired about Lauren Smith, the student chosen to page in Washington, D.C. this semester. Golden said she is doing well and announced three other students will be going to Washington, D.C. to page for one week.
Elementary school principal Nancy Welch said evaluations are ongoing for each grade level. She said they are making predictions based on data they are compiling about students’ learning abilities. They will be talking to students one at a time to learn where they are struggling and what is working for them. Parent/teacher conferences are Feb. 9 and 11. Read the whole story, subscribe to the online edition: http://www.hugonews.com/transitionHDN.html |
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Wednesday, 10 February 2010 20:09 |
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By Amber Hanneken
Staff Writer
The unofficial results are in for county school board elections.
Fort Towson was a close race with Tim Carter winning by just 15 votes.
In Boswell’s four-way race, John Kerr took the most votes while incumbent Ron Pickard had the least.
Incumbent Chris Scott received the winning vote in Grant’s school board election.
In other districts, candidates ran unopposed. Shawn Scott will remain on Soper’s board and Brad Greer will remain on Hugo’s board. Carolyn Hill will be on Goodland’s board. In Swink, Albert L. Swink and John W. Davis will be members of the school board.
Results are listed as unofficial until Friday, Feb. 12, by which time provisional ballots should be counted. Find out how many votes each candidate received, subscribe to the online edition: http://www.hugonews.com/transitionHDN.html |
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Friday, 05 February 2010 17:50 |
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By Amber Hanneken
Staff Writer Hobnobbing with the first lady of the United States and riding in the president’s motorcade during an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. is not something most Choctaw County residents will experience in their lifetime, and definitely not something Deborah Powell thought she would be experiencing when she moved here in 2004.
Powell, an employee of the Choctaw Nation Housing Authority in Hugo, was invited to the State of the Union address last week because federal stimulus funding provides for her job. The housing authority received more than $8 million in stimulus money from the president’s recovery act, and as the development specialist, Powell tracks how those funds are being spent.
She said there were two people within the authority who could have gone, but she was selected because she is a tribal member. She said the trip was an experience, from her first-ever taxi ride to shaking President Barack Obama’s hand after his speech.
“I teared up when I went to shake his hand and he started talking about Oklahoma’s weather and the ice storms,” Powell said. “It was so intense.”
Meeting the president and first lady were at the top of Powell’s list of experiences but she said her children disagreed.
“My kids, after I told them everything I did, they thought the coolest thing was that I got taken from the White House to the Capitol building in a motorcade with everybody else,” she said. “We were in two vans and as soon as we left the White House it was full lights and sirens and every street was blocked off.”
Powell’s husband, Billy Powell, also got to go on the trip with her; as well as the housing authority’s Executive Director Russell Sossamon and Bishinik editor Lisa Reed. Read the whole story, subscribe to the online edition: http://www.hugonews.com/transitionHDN.html |
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