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Ledger-Enquirer from Columbus, Georgia • 3

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Columbus, Georgia
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SATURDAY EBRUARY 26 2005 COLUMBUS LEDGER ENQUIRER wwwledger enquirercom news A3 Stewart to leave jail next weekend She will be 40 miles from Manhattan for next five months Associated Press KATONAH NY She will be able to return to work and start drawing her $900 0Q0 sal ary again and she will be free to throw lavish house parties as long as she invite any criminals Martha Stewart wilt also be wearing the must have acces sory for the convicted felon on the go: an elec tronic anklet that yill allow author ities to monitor her movements After five months in prison Stewart West Wna Stewart will be released net weekend to her 153 acre estate in the rolling horse country 40 miles north of midtown Manhattan There for another five months she will serve the home detention portion of her sentence for a stock scandal The woman behind a billion dollar homemaking empire will be confined to one of several houses on her estate in Katonah except for 48 hours a week for employ said Chris Stanton chief US probation officer in New York Stewart 63 who also has homes in Connecticut Maine and the Hamptons chose the Katonah estate which she bought in 2000 for $16 million to be her prison away from prison until August The anklet and phone calls will be used to enforce the ban on going outside during non working hours Besides running Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and writing a column for her magazine Stewart can prepare for the two TV shows she will be starring in a revival of her daily homemaking show and her own version of Her contract with her com pany states her salary which was suspended while behind bars will get reinstated during home detention PLEA I Poe apologizes rom Al is a victim Poe apologized to mother am Poe said" hope she will forgive Pullen accepted a deal worked out between Assistant District Attorney Maggie Bagley and public defender Bob Watkins who repre sented Poe Dorothy Walton is nothing we can say or do to lessen your Patterson said the deepest parts of my heart we are Poe has been in custody since the shooting He was moved from the Regional Youth Detention Center on Schatulga Road to the Muscogee County Jail He will serve his sentence in and guns make a dan gerous Pullen said result is one precious life state prison Poe almost 16 was facing a murder charge that could have resulted in a life SOLDIER I Legacy filled with stories of good times rom Al triple major in English history and music Between 1998 and 2002 he had worked odd jobs including a stint at the Illinois Depart ment of Nuclear Safety Then he took the Law School Admis sionTest scoring high enough to get scholarship offers from Georgetown University and the University of Chicago Later in 2002 he and his girlfriend Bridget Hendrick son announced to his parents that he was joining the US Army The elder Palmatier said it was surprising but it was nothing new for his son to want to try something differ ent He played in a band with friends in college and once traveled to Arkansas for a paintball tournament He completed basic training at ort Benning in November 2002 His first assignment was in South Korea where lie bought and sent back seven different types of guitars His father said he taught himself how to play the guitar the flute the clarinet and the saxo phone though he only took lessons in piano always did things the way he wanted to do Palmatier said after telling a story about Jacob dressing up as The Invisible Man one Hal loween was a good 1 Jacob Palmatier was in Korea for a year when he came home and married Hendrickson on Dec 27 2003 He returned to ort Benning and worked an office job in records not expecting to see much combat The elder Palmatier said the last time they heard from his son was Jan 16 when he left for Germany to Kuwait and eventually to Iraq Although his son wanted to join the Army the father said not sure he was in the role he expected But his father said his legacy will be one filled with stories of fun times and an intelligent and hard working man think most people will say he is a great he said very easy to TOWER Space on tower will be rented DID YOU KNOW? cable there will be a tremen dous Plans also call for relocating WSWS offices and 18 employ ees from Opelika to Columbus to give the a higher profile in the market The designated market area covers about 208000 homes in east central Alabama and west central Georgia The Columbus area market ranks 125 out of 219 in the nation Upgrading the reception of WSWS and moving to Colum bus have been under consider ation for several years Brooks said Such changes must be approved by the ederal Com munications Commission The tower being constructed near Cusseta Ga which will hold WSWS TV equipment will be 1766 feet tail when completed in early spring Add a 48 foot antenna and the total height reaches 1814 feet more than the length of six football fields (end zones included) or equivalent to stacking seven andone half Aflac headquarters buildings (off Wynnton Road) on top of each other The Aflac building has 19 stories and is 238 feet high Channel 66 has been a UPN affiliate for five years and has two years remaining on its contract with the Viacom net work Brooks antici pate any programming changes or leaving UPN which offers a collection of urban oriented kilowatts will make a world of difference he said currently have a stron ger signal in places but out toward the edges of our (desig nated market area) kind of falling off because not making the power to get he said be able to When completed this spring they should give the station a competitive boost possibly in ratings and advertising reve nue he said think having a physical presence in the market plus an improved coverage area and a stronger transmitter situation it will be he said be much more dramas situation comedies action movies and sports pro gramming The weekly wres tling program WWE Smack is the station's highest rated program Brooks said Michael Carroll WSWS chief engineer said long range plans call for boosting the signal into the 5 million kilowatt range But 2 million blanket our coverage Without the tower in Cusseta however it have been possible Tampa la based Richland Towers is constructing the 1766 foot metal structure which will include a 48 foot antenna at the top for a total height of 1814 feet The company owns 13 towers across the country from Carroll ABC and Columbus Orlando la to Sacramento Calif The Cusseta structure is situ ated near an existing tower used by WTVM and WRBL the CBS affiliates in David Denton Richland vice president of sales and marketing said he now is working to lease out space on the tower which could easily handle equipment for four tele vision and four radio stations takes time to fill up these Denton said are typically on a 3 to 5 year lease up timeframe never quite full always things you can WSWS fc owned by Visalia Calif Pappas Telecast ing which owns operates or is building stations in 25 mhrt kets The company bought Channel 66 from Tampa la based Genesis Broadcasting Co in July 1996 Moore want to be sent overseas Clarence mother recalls his decision to join the US Army She said he had graduated from Highland Park High School in Detroit where he had played football and basketball Moore adding that she nagged him to get a life Moore said she was sur prised when an Army sergeant showed up at the house to see her son Clarence who kept telling the sergeant that he did not want anything to do with a man out of she recalled telling him think he kind of wanted me to say When the Iraq war started in March 2003 Clarence Moore was terrified be sent his mother said But he stayed at (Airborne) 507th Parachute Regiment He was released from the Army in August 2004 Jack Kresnak Detroit ree Press grandmother Theresa Patterson stood next to her grandson did decide to take matters into his own Patterson told the judge Patterson then looked at sentence Watkins told the court that mistake in judgment will haunt the boy for a long time think he will regret it for the rest of his Wat kins said Charles Di Antiques ESTATE SALEH! resh Antiques Arriving Daily! 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