Library aims to bridge digital divide with new public lab
Ciallella and Sharp describe a Gates Foundation funded public computer lab to serve Ector County, offering Microsoft Office training and access for students seniors and county schools. The project targets poverty areas, would connect libraries countywide, and hopes for a grant decision by June with operation by October.
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Ector County
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Barbara Sharp
America
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Volunteers Lend Time To Rebuild Haddock Home
Wilson notes volunteers aged 16 to 75 come from varied backgrounds to spend a Saturday on a home repair project. Haddock, learning of the program from a friend, calls it a blessing and says past contractors did poor work. She plans to volunteer next year. Her grandfather O A Buttrell is mentioned as excited about the repairs.
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OA Online wins Honorable Mention at APME Conference
Odessa American and OA Online leaders receive recognition at the 2000 Texas APME gathering in Irving. OA Online Editor Tom Hall, with OA since 1998, ranked first in 1999 while OA Executive Editor John Kerr notes growing online news role. Other papers like Midland Reporter Telegram and Pecos Enterprise earned second in their categories.
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Tom Hall
APME
Midland Reporter- Telegram
One Odessa
Mexican border town youth fighter tied to district attorney comment
Assistant District Attorney Lyn McClellan said the possibility of refiling the charge against Peralta had not been ruled out. The context notes his Mexican origin from a poor border town after a clash with an Anglo neighbor, reflecting a charged background to the case.
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the Chronicle
Peralta
Border Patrol seizes over two tons of marijuana near Palominas
Border Patrol agents stopped a caravan of stolen pickup trucks from Texas and New Mexico near Palominas Arizona. Three vehicles crossed the border early Friday but two stopped and the drivers fled. Police recovered 3879 pounds of marijuana from the two trucks and 835 pounds from a later found vehicle.
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Daniels
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