Former Blackshear principal takes over at Ector
Martha Mitchell, formerly Blackshear Elementary Magnet principal, is named principal at Ector Junior High School. Maria Chavez will take a one year sabbatical. Chavez’s leave was approved by ECISD Superintendent Roy Benavides as Mitchell begins her tenure with plans to maintain and improve existing programs. Sally Navarro now leads Blackshear with Carver ED Center oversight. Hope Cortez becomes Carver assistant principal and mentor to Navarro.
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Blackshear
Martha Mitchell
Ector Junior High
Maria Chavez
Ector County Independent School District
Roy Benavides
Chavez
University of Texas-Pan -American
ECISD
Adela Vasquez
Ector
Mitchell
Vasquez
Sally Navarro
Carver Early Education Center
Carver
Navarro
Hope Cortez
Cortez
ECISN
Woman Turns Rooms into Starscapes Across West Odessa
Ina Bliss converts indoor spaces into star murals using non-toxic glow paints to recreate night skies. From a West Odessa base near Chisum Avenue she offers peaceful constellations and moon crescents, linking this artful business to a broader plan of coaching small businesses online through a members only site.
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Bliss
Odessa
Ina Bliss
West Texas
Busi
West Berlin
Ziglar to headline Midland seminar Thriving in Any Economy
Zig Ziglar will lead a daylong seminar at Golf Course Road Church of Christ in Midland titled Thriving in Any Economy with Bryan Flanagan and Krish Dhanam. The event aims to motivate attendees and offer practical success advice, drawing on Ziglar’s lifetime of motivational work and books.
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Zig Ziglar
Golf Course Road Church of Christ In
Midland
Bryan Flanagan
Krish Dhanam
Ziglar
Board votes to buy land for hospital use in Odessa
Ector County Hospital District board unanimously approves a 550000 dollar quarter block purchase at the southwest corner of North Washington Avenue and West Fourth Street. The deal gives MCH the full block though existing tenants will be moved out as buildings are razed and rebuilt.
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West Odessa
Ector County Hospital District Board of Directors
North
Washington Avenue
West Fourth Street
MCH
Audio Acoustics Hearing Center
Thelma’s
Fourth St
AHA Health Care
All Clear & Shock Medical Supply
David Spear Computer Graphics Services
Ington Ave
Tony Ruiz
Bill Webster
Judy Hayes
Abraham Torres
Joe C. Buice
William Hetzler
James Gaddy
Mary Thompson
Virgil Trower
Texas Tech Medical Center
City finalizes Family Dollar deal with water tank plan
Odessa City Council approves a water tank for the Family Dollar distribution facility with Ector County sharing a $200,000 cost. The Odessa Development Corporation covers most of the amount, $128,000 in-kind from the county, and $72,000 from CDC incentives, aimed at fire suppression and insurance savings. The measure completes the city Family Dollar contract, with minor details remaining.
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Odessa
Ector County
Royce Bodiford
ODC
CDC
Bodiford
CDC Board
Seldon Hensley
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Permian High
Gary Payne
Chisum Avenue
Shumard
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
East Berlin
Garden
Carrollton
Alabama
Mississippi
Aaron Bensonhave
Odessa American
Odessa College
China Holley
Virginia Chisum
Odessa College Foundation
Jack Rodgers Fine Arts
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