Ordinance Makes Landscaping Choices Optional for Developers
City talks loosened landscaping rules with optional program between $300 and $4,000 permit fee savings. Khoury says oversight not required. Parks advisory board seeks monitoring, while developers find voluntary landscaping socially acceptable and potentially attractive. Roy Allen of ICA Properties notes optional incentive may lure builders.
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Odin
Marwan
Khoury
Roy Allen
ICA Properties
Parks and Recreation Advisory Board
Steve Patton
Parks and Recreation
Patton
Parks Advisory Board
Planning and Zoning Commission
van Hagen
Larry Long
Man indicted for murder in May 9 killing
Winkler County grand jurors indicted 63 year old Kermit man Victor Marquez Rodriguez for murder in the May 9 slaying of roommate Abundio Pineda 47. Rodriguez is held on 100000 bond in Winkler County Jail. Police initially believed an ax was used to kill Pineda according to county records.
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Winkler County
Kermit
Abundio Pineda
Mike Foster
Victor Marquez Rodriguez
Fostel
Rodriguez
Pineda
Survey highlights communication gaps in ECISD site based committees
The survey finds employees unaware or unconvinced that ECISD site based committees exist or perform duties, citing poor communication. Larry Comer of ATPE notes frustration and aims for administrator action. Granta McKelvain pledges follow up, as ATPE and the Austin state office report results.
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Larry Comer
ATPE
Comer
Granta McKelvain
Ector County
Austin
Creative Consumer’ Research Company of
Houston
Odessa confronts city hall turmoil and race on school funding
In 1991 Odessa voters backed a lottery by a two to one margin while the City Council fired City Manager Bill Brown amid years of policy disputes. New council members arrived in May, a new police chief was appointed, and a minority district seat was created for 1992. The Planning and Zoning Commission proposed strict limits on sex oriented businesses, with county and city ordinances diverging on distances. Dynagen paid the largest air pollution penalty under the Clean Air Act. David Keith Mack received a life sentence for a 1990 shooting of law officers. The Robin Hood school funding reform persisted, 23 years after Edgewood ISD sued over financing.
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Texas
Bill Brown
Brown
Dist
Joann Davenport
Fred Crawford
Lorraine Bonner
Bro” Hill
Bob Slider
Jim Jenkins
Daytona Beach
Fla
Odessa
West Side
South Odessa
Ector County Commissioners Court
Dynagen, Inc
Texas Air Quality Control Board
David Keith Mack
Florida
Ft. Stockton
Edgewood Independent School
Odessa crime and assault report details several incidents
A 12 year old Odessa girl reports sexual assault by someone known to her between January and August 1998 at her northeast Odessa home. A 25 year old Odessa woman reports theft of checks keys and a 1991 Chevrolet Lumina from North Granview Avenue. An Odessa woman faces forgery and burglary charges. bond set at 5000 for forgery by passing. A 37 year old Odessa man reports $2000 damage to a 1997 Eagle Talon on East 21st Street. A 20 year old Odessa woman reports $2000 damage from vandalism on Eastridge Road. A 45 year old Odessa man held on possession of a controlled substance. bond 5000. A 52 year old Odessa woman charged in Rusk County with organized criminal activities. bond 50000.
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Odessa
Granview Avenue
Ector County
Larenda Johnson
Graham Ave
East 21St Street
Eastridge Road
Alfred Garcia Rivera
Tom Green Ave
Ector
Rusk County
Sandra K. Smith
Alabama No. 5
Midland Man Killed In Motorcycle Collision
A 23-year-old Midland man named Matthew Amstutz died after his motorcycle struck a northbound Chevrolet van on Cottonflat Road. The van driver, 46-year-old Luis Guerrero Lara of Presidio, was uninjured and charged with criminal negligent homicide.
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Midland
Matthew Amstutz
Memorial Hospital
Amstutz
Midland Police Department
Luis Guerrero Lara
Presidio
Cottonflat Road
Lara
Public hearing on Texas haze shows cross border pollution
Haze from Mexico has reached the Northeast and the Dakotas as an EPA funded flight program runs mid July through September with a 218000 grant. A public hearing on air quality is set for August 20 at Sul Ross State University Alpine Studio Theatre to discuss data analysis and emission reduction plans involving TNRCC EPA and the National Park Service.
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Mexico
Dakotas
Environmental Protection Agency
Big Bend
Pendleton
Studio
Fine Arts
Sul Ross State University
Alpine
TNRCC
EPA
National Park Service
Texas
Sage
United States
Quarantine lifted on Reeves County Rockin' K horses
State veterinary officials lift the Reeves County quarantine on horses at the Rockin' K Ranch after four horses contracted vesicular stomatitis. The move allows Texas horses to be moved again, with Kentucky accepting Texas livestock only if tests and health certificates meet strict timing and exposure rules, and excludes Arizona Colorado and New Mexico as embargoed states.
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Rockin’ K Ranch
Reeves County
Rockin’ K
New Mexico
Arizona
Elizabeth Cook
Texas
Kentucky
Max Coats
Texas Animal Health Commission
Colorado
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Gist. & Andrews
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Crystal Palace
Matusalem
Newman's Beer Depot
Bond
First Assembly of God Church
N. Lee
Rod Vincent
N. Grandview, Odessa
G.R. Albertson
D.O
D.W. Davison
Lang
M.D
American Society of Bananic Physicians
Dallas- Fort Worth
NEC
Nokia
N. Grandview
Cellularone
Texas Se
Professional Dance Teacher of America
National Dance Asociation
the Arts Council Co-Op
N. Dixie
Amy Muffley
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