Architects billing dispute prompts special Terry County meeting
Terry County Commissioners and six West Texas Children's Assessment Center board members met in a Thursday post meridiem session to review an $18 000 bill from SLS Partnership of Lubbock for architectural work on the proposed WTCAC facility on Bynum Lane. The project planner Rich Oller, now no longer involved, had asked SLS to draft plans before a replacement firm completed the design.
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WTCAC
SLS Partnership
Lubbock
Rich Oller
Bynum Lane
Bill McGowan II
Rodney Keeton
Brenda Rudd
Patsy Nicholson
Alan Bayer
Ann Willis
McGowan
Terry County
Earl Brown Jr
Bill Keesee
Don Robertson
John Franks
Terry
Doug Ryburn
Assessment Center
SLS
Court nixes land and office buy
At a special called meeting Thursday afternoon the Terry County Commissioners dropped their plan to buy 300 feet of Stockton Street property with two buildings to store county vehicles and provide office space. The plan faced debt and contract issues under fiscal statutes and questions over architectural bills from SLS Partnership.
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Terry County Commissioners
Stockton Street
Sundown Well
Terry County Attorney's Office
TNRCC to conduct Texas Rural trash campaign
The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission offers rural Texans free disposal of empty pesticide containers used motor oil filters tires and lead acid batteries through the Texas Country Cleanup campaign. After 34 events this spring there are 10 more including a Terry County stop on June 21 from 8 a.m. to noon at the Terry County Co-op Gin Highway 137 half a mile north of U S 385.
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Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
Texas
Terry County
Way 137
U. 385
Texas Country Cleanup
TNRCC
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Throw the bums out and bring in new voices in DC
Lynn Brisendine criticizes political elites and media pundits, urging a complete turnover of lawmakers and "experts" in Washington. He recounts a CNN Talk Back Live visit in Atlanta and reflects on travel from Brownfield to North Carolina, contrasting East Coast density with West Texas landscape and noting changes in rural areas.
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Pres. Clinton
Newt Gingrich
Capitol
Atlanta
CNN
Talk Back Live
Ed Rollings
Rollings
Washington
North Carolina
Brownfield
Nashville
Tenn
Knoxville
Winston-Salem
N.C
West
Texas
Brownfield sees 27 percent rise in April sales tax rebates
Brownfield reports April sales tax rebates totaling 43574. The year to date rebates reach 347553.85, up 3.68 percent from 335217.81. Officials caution monthly figures can be misleading due to late filings, while noting overall steady growth and use of rebates to fund the General Fund.
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Mitch Ward
Brownfield
John Sharp
Comptroller
Clyde Walter
Comptroller's Office
Walter
Brownfield Chamber of Commerce
Cheryl Arrington
Mary Jo Collins
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Akke AsKe
Brownfield Independent School District
James Himbre
Brianna Paschal
Jesse Franco
Scott Gryder
Juan Garza
Scotty Densmore
Kelvin Gryder
Amanda Stewart
Kristen Nicodemus
Misty Morin
Erica Morin
Jason Cunningham
Weston Hobdy
Michael Rice
Roy McNeil
Chris Martinez
Gilbert Morin
Carol Guerra
Bertha Rodriguez
Anthony Garcia
Jaclyn Guerra
Cassie Johnson
Marissa Fonseca
Stuart Williams
Andy Burkett
Cande Serna
Theresa Guerra
Amanda Rogers
Meagan McElroy
Mitch
Pam McElroy
Coleman Park
McElroy
Calvary Baptist Church
Stephanie Johnson
Bryce Wagner
Deidre Riley
Jerry Johnson
Lynn Brisendine
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