Terry County Commissioners OK flooring bid for Law Enforcement Center
After a 2 1/2 hour session the Terry County Commission approved a $41,034.26 bid from HiTech Floor Specialities Wolfforth to finish flooring at the Law Enforcement Center and set a completion target of September 22 with opening planned for October 20. They also approved a rule making residents responsible for burying their own small animals and discussed an airport terminal project with potential matching federal aid.
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Terry County
Terry County Law Enforcement Center
Law Enforcement Center
Wolfforth
Don Robertson
Robertson
Jerry Johnson
Commissioners Court
Johnson
BCISD eyes budget cut amid revenue squeeze
Brownfield Consolidated Independent School District advances a plan to trim the 1998 99 budget from over 13 million to about 11.6 million. Debbe Roesler notes team effort across campuses and districts leaders as state and local tax revenue declines shrink funding.
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Blake Decker
Brownfield Consolidated Independent
Board of Trustees
BCISD
Business and Finance
Debbe Roesler
Roesler
Charles Harrison
Good Samaritan drives aid to Del Rio from Brownfield
Retired truck driver Martinez heads an emergency relief run from Brownfield to Del Rio with clothes, paper goods, water and canned food. He plans stops along the way to collect donations from Wal-Mart St. Anthony's Church Dollar General Maria Valdonado and others, aiming to aid residents who lost homes cars and essentials. He will depart Thursday night and plans a return trip next Friday and asks for more donations including drinking water and bathing water.
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Blake Decker
Good Samaritan
Brownfield
Florentino Martinez
del Rio
Martinez
Wal-Mart
St. Anthony's Catholic Church
Dollar General
Maria Valdonado
Isabel Contreras
United Supermarkets
Public Hearing Scheduled on Terry County Budget
The Terry County Commissioners set a public hearing for the 1999 county budget at 10 a.m. Monday in the commissioners chambers of the courthouse. They will vote on the budget and tax rate at the regularly scheduled meeting on September 14.
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Terry County
WTCC gains pupils and notes profitable back-to-school drive
Norman Lockett, WTCC director, reports the West Texas Children’s Centre has about 60 percent of needed school supplies and roughly $200 in gifts, with $400 estimated per child. The emergency shelter runs near full occupancy for two months, while the Residential Treatment Program has fluctuating occupancy and ongoing building openings, as placements affect capacity and future growth.
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Garry Peebles
West Texas Children’s Centre
Norman Lockett
Wal-Mart
United Supermarket
WTCC
Lockett
Amarillo
Bizzaro Russia mirrors Clinton era drama in Bizzaro terms
By Lynn Brisendine, the piece contrasts Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin as a modern Bizzaro world. It compares post Cold War Russia to a comic mirror, describing mob rule in Moscow, extortion as a main economy, and a currency collapse while predicting Clinton’s upcoming meeting with Yeltsin to shore up his regime.
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Bonnie
Bill Clinton
Boris Yeltsin
Russia
Moscow
Yeltsin
Clinton
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