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Friday, 29 January 2010 19:48 |
HUGO — B.K. Silverlake grabbed the silver lining and would not let go. Travel with the circus for just one season and you understand the extended circus family.
With today’s new technology it is easier than ever to keep in touch. You can call a cell phone, you can e-mail and let’s not forget Web cams. But B.K. is more of the old fashion kind of gal. She wants to see the words coming out of someone’s mouth. She wants to hold the newest baby. She wants the entire extended circus family to keep in touch whenever they are in town. So the best way to show you still care is through actions. That is why B.K. took the time to initiate the process to start the Circus City Showmens Club.
She found an abundance of help and support from her circus family. They all agreed they need a regular place to get together and update each other as well as reminisce. At the January 2010 meeting officer elections were held. Elected were president, B.K. Silverlake, vice president, Mike Fulton, secretary, Jodi Rawls and treasurer, Carol Rawls Mendez.
The Circus City Showmens Club meets at 6 p.m. the first Saturday of the month at the Hugo VFW. Anyone interested in joining can call B.K. at 580.317.9436 or Mike Fulton at 580.760.6288 or e-mail
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:31 |
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Deborah Powell is on a trip of a lifetime. The Choctaw Nation Housing Authority employee is in Washington, D.C., and is set to be seated next to Michelle Obama tonight as the president of the United States gives his first State of the Union address of the year.
“We are very excited for Debbie and honored that one of our employees has been invited to attend such a prestigious event,” said Chief Gregory E. Pyle.
The invitation was extended to Powell because she is an example of how federal stimulus funds have retained and provided jobs in rural America. The Housing Authority has received two awards totaling more than $8 million through the Native American Housing block grants program. The grants are targeted primarily toward building additional independent living homes for senior citizens in five sites across Southeastern Oklahoma – approximately 19 in Poteau, 15 in Hugo, 15 in Durant, 12 in Talihina and nine in Idabel. The construction plans were a perfect fit for Recovery Act allocations. Read the whole story, subscribe to the online edition: http://www.hugonews.com/transitionHDN.html |
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Friday, 22 January 2010 20:22 |
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HUGO — Officers arrested 19-year-old Zachary Charles Taylor of Hugo Tuesday afternoon after a report of shots fired at an eastside apartment complex.
According to Officer Billy Covington’s report, the 35-year-old female victim stated Taylor made threatening gang-like hand gestures at her before producing a black hand gun from a bag. The report says, Taylor fired four rounds in the direction of the victim and later ran into the woods behind the complex. Read the whole story, subscribe to the online edition: http://www.hugonews.com/transitionHDN.html |
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 23:00 |
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By Amber Hanneken
Staff Writer
HUGO — The Hugo school board approved a mid-term budget adjustment for state and federal allocations Monday evening in a special meeting.
Superintendent Tony Daugherty said state budget cuts have caused the school to be more than $223,000 short of its budget.
“We got cut 4.42%,” he said. He added that there are no proposed further cuts at this time, but it is possible more may come as the legislature comes back into session.
More money has been received from federal sources since the Jan. 11 meeting and at the moment, accounts are positive. Some money the school receives is restricted to specific programs, and in those areas, Daugherty said, they are not lacking. It’s on general operating funds that the school is going to have to cut back.
The superintendent said he has met with all of the principals and made routine budget cuts. They cut $42,000 from encumbrances and cut $135,000 by paying for custodial salaries through the building fund. There is about $46,000 additionally that needs to be cut and the board discussed possible expenditure reductions.
Some possible reductions include, no field trips — excluding athletic, band and student competitions — non-competitive student trips must be funded by the student activity fund or by donations; no workshops/travel for teachers unless the cost is reimbursable from a grant or donated funds; spring extra-curricular activities monitored closely and canceled games not rescheduled unless they affect playoffs; all athletic, band, choir, FFA and FCCLA purchases to come out... Read the whole story, subscribe to the online edition: http://www.hugonews.com/transitionHDN.html |
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Thursday, 21 January 2010 19:31 |
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By Stan Stamper
Publisher
HUGO — City of Hugo police officers and officers with the Choctaw County Sheriff’s department, were joined Monday by officers of other jurisdictions in the arrest of nine area residents on drug-related charges.
The arrests were all related to telephone conversations that took place in the months of May and June of 2008 between the individuals charged and Jeffrey Pierce, who is presently in federal custody awaiting sentencing on related illegal drug activities.
Charged this week with the felony crime of endeavoring to obtain a controlled dangerous substance were:
• Cheyenne Lee Rosson
• Melissa Ann Daniels
• Chad Allen Moore
• Brian Stephen Morris
• Sherrie Lynn Choate
• Billy Joe Garrett
• Melanie Susan Baggs
• Kenneth Bruce Wilhelm
• Regina Ann Bowden
Choctaw County court records indicate warrants for three other individuals have not yet been served.
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