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Friday, 23 April 2010 19:01 |
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By Amber Hanneken
Staff Writer
Five nights a week Samantha Wilson doesn’t work. Well, technically she does, but she would never call it that.
“People say, ‘I have to get up and go to work.’ I never go to work I just have such a good time,” she said.
Wilson began working for Martinaire in February. She flies a Cessna Caravan from Hugo to McAlester to Tulsa and then back, hauling freight for UPS.
“This is the most fun I’ve had flying an airplane and getting paid for it. It’s not a job, that’s the best part about it,” Wilson said.
On a typical night, Wilson arrives at the Stan Stamper Municipal Airport at 6:23 p.m. — an hour before her scheduled departure — and waits for the UPS driver to bring the freight. If the driver is early, she leaves early too. In McAlester she picks up more packages and then flies to Tulsa, where she is scheduled to arrive by 8:40 p.m.
Ultimately, her night ends at the Radisson in Tulsa where she has a room all her own, courtesy of the airline. Her day begins again at 5:30 a.m. when she calls the airport to see if the UPS jet has arrived so she can load up packages for Hugo and McAlester. On Saturday morning, her route also goes to Ardmore.
Her days are spent in Hugo where she has enjoyed the Choctaw County Library, visited The Frisco Depot Museum, the Endangered Ark, Hugo Lake and even taken in a circus performance. On the weekends she often finds herself in Dallas but also sometimes flies home to her primary residence in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Wilson was born in London but she grew up in Westchester County, N.Y., a suburb of New York City. She moved to Washington, D.C. at 16 to attend Georgetown University and lived there for 18 years.
After college, Wilson became a flight attendant for Delta Airlines where the travel bug hit her. Read the full story, subscribe to the online edition: http://www.hugonews.com/transitionHDN.html |
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Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:19 |
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ANTLERS — Karrie McKeever, 18, of Fort Towson, was charged Monday with first degree murder in connection with the death of Robert Strickland of Hugo.
Charges against her state that she was engaged in committing the crime of robbery with a dangerous weapon by shooting Strickland with a firearm.
A fourth woman, who is named in the arrest affidavit, has not been charged, but is being held in the Pushmataha County jail on unrelated charges.
McKeever’s bond was set at $500,000 by Associate District Judge Jana Wallace.
Strickland’s body was found on April 12, near Weyerhaeuser road number 80,000 northeast of Sobol. Previously charged with his murder were Aaron Jerome Jacobs and Clifton Parish. Read the full story, subscribe to the online edition: http://www.hugonews.com/transitionHDN.html |
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Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:16 |
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By Joanne Webster
Contributing Writer
BOSWELL — Boswell councilors announced the unexpected death of one of their members, Dwight Harrison Tuesday. He was reportedly vacationing in Louisiana when he died.
His death and the removal of councilor Robert Moore leaves the public body with only three members.
A number of Boswell citizens voiced their disapproval of a special meeting recently held by the town’s governing body, which was not publicly announced. The agenda was not provided to the media which is routinely done.
Councilors met toward the end of March in a special meeting and conducted several items of business, including the hiring of a police officer and obtaining bids for a city vehicle. Officer Ricky Archer was hired and began working on March 27. It was decided during the special meeting that the city would have three full time police officers, including Chief Byron Gordon and officer Tommy Mlady, who is presently in CLEET training. Also approved were four reserve officers.
Councilor Steve VanSickle provided documents from the Oklahoma Municipal League, after the meeting was adjourned, which stated, “...each person elected or appointed for the first time as an officer of a municipality on or after July 1, 2006 shall be required within one year of taking office to attend an institute for municipal officials.” Read the full story, subscribe to the online edition: http://www.hugonews.com/transitionHDN.html |
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Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:32 |
HUGO — Today is the last day to file your 2009 income tax returns without penalties.
The Hugo Post Office window is open until 4:30 p.m. The last chance to get tax returns post marked with today’s date is 5 p.m. at the drop off box to the south side of the building. |
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Monday, 12 April 2010 17:25 |
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OSBI reports Strickland’s body recovered
HUGO — Two men have been arrested and charged with first degree murder in connection the with killing of Robert Edward Strickland, 39, of Hugo.
Aaron Jerome Jacobs, 25, Spencerville, Okla., and Clifton Merrill Parish, 26, of Fort Towson, have been charged with robbing and shooting Strickland in the early morning hours of April 5. The charges were filed in Pushmataha County and bond for both men has been set at $500,000 by Associate District Judge Jana Wallace.
According to police reports, Jacobs and Parish were accompanied by two female subjects, one of whom sent a text message to Strickland, asking him to come to an area east of the Messer rural fire department. After Strickland went to the area, the woman sent him another text message saying that she had left her car keys in his car, and asked him to return.
According to statements given to police by one or more of the four individuals present, the request to have Strickland return was a ploy to rob him. Jacobs and one of the girls repeatedly beat Strickland about the head until he was unconscious, after which he was placed into the back of his own Ford SUV.
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