Starbright Village displays attract huge regional ads spending
Heritage Holiday spent about $20 000 on a Starbright Village regional advertising campaign stretching from Abilene to Alpine. Patton said the displays will attract Odessa visitors as a destination next to the interstate. Three of the biggest pieces were ordered including a 47 by 65 foot giant flashing trumpet. A donation drive raises funds. $5 donations accepted to view the free light displays. Revenue funds bulb replacements and new displays. donors contributed roughly $4 000 to $5 000 by Sunday.
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Starbright Village
Heritage Holiday Board
Chris Zentner
Starbright
Zentner
Heritage Holiday
Abilene
Alpine
Odessa
Patton
Heritage Holiday Internet project draws Odessa crowd
Parks director Steve Patton says the Heritage Holiday near Odessa will become a destination point as Zentner estimates about 5,000 cars have passed with a conservative three passengers per car totaling around 15,000 viewers by Sunday. Starbright drew 42,000 last year.
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Odessa
Steve Patton
Zentner
Starbright
Patton
UT Regents Retreat Draws Fire Amid Job Cuts
The Texas Faculty Association challenges UT Board of Regents over a $15,000 Presidents’ Retreat at Lost Pines funded by non tax donor interest. The group alleges violation of the Open Meetings Act as UTMB layoffs affect 3,800 employees and patients. Interim Chancellor Shine defends the retreat as essential despite costs.
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Austin
University of Texas System Board of Regents
UT Medical
Galveston
Texas Faculty Association
Regents
UTMB
Houston Chronicle
San Antonio Express-News
Tom Johnson
Association
Ske
Texas
Hyatt Regency
Lost Pines
Bastrop
Matt Flores
Board of Regents and
Presidents
Kenneth I. Shine
Shine
Odessa blotter and arrests include drugs thefts and firearm loss
Between 8 a.m. and 3 30 p.m. Tuesday in the 2200 block of Oleander Lane police logged a debit card abuse incident. A 19 year old Odessa woman Mikayla Bars was arrested for possession of a controlled substance at 4 07 a.m. Wednesday at a 7 Eleven on Eighth Street. Dennis McKinney and Glenn Ray Ross of Hillcrest Avenue were charged with possession of a controlled substance in the 600 block of Hillcrest. Bonds were set at 7500 and 15000 respectively while Ross was free on 15000 bond. A 41 year old Odessa man was charged with theft after officers found a digital music video player worth 69 99 reported stolen from Sears i on Amburgey Avenue. David Hermosillo was held on 15000 bond for theft. A Midland man reported a known person took a Llama .32 handgun from his truck sometime between October 16 and December 1 in the 900 block of East 15th Street. A red and black 2001 Ford F 350 was reported stolen at 1 51 p.m.
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Odessa
Eighth St. Mikayla
Fitch Ave
Ector County Detention Center
Hillcrest Avenue
Dennis McKinney
Hillcrest Ave
Glenn Ray Ross
Sears i
Amburgey Avenue
David Hermosillo
N. Greenlee Road
Midland
East 15Th Street
Veteran protester halts border fence work near El Paso
Judy Ackerman, a 55 year old Army veteran, blocked construction crews for about eight hours on the U S Mexico border east of El Paso before being arrested for criminal trespass. She was released after a summons to appear in court. The protest occurred on IBWC land near the Rio Bosque Wetlands Park and marked the first such action on IBWC property.
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EL Paso
U.s.-Mexico
Judy Ackerman
Texas Department of Public Safety
Ackerman
Ed Hernandez
Rio Bosque Wetlands
International Boundary and Water Commission Land
Mexico
U.S
al Riera
IBWC
Riera
Texas
Rio Bosque Park
Ciudad Juarez
Feds and Texas clash over cell phone jamming test
Texas officials accuse the FCC of bureaucratic double talk after agency officials encouraged a cell phone jamming test that federal authorities would not authorize. The test, sparked by illegal inmate calls and a prison lockdown, was canceled due to illegal jamming under federal law. FCC statements later suggested a possible path forward, prompting calls for real action from state leaders.
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Austin
Texas
Federal Communications Commission
Washington
Jerry Strickland
Greg Abbott
FCC
John Whitmire
Whitmire
Houston
Senate Criminal Justice Committee
South Carolina
Robert Kenny
Kevin Martin
Kenny
Jerry Madden
Richardson
Strickland
One dead in Martin County rollover
A 2005 Ford pickup rolled over on US 87 near County Road 4500 at the Martin County border. Facunda Karr, 68, of Aurora Colorado, died at the scene. Juan Karr, Ninfa Karr, 45, and Jason Robles, 6, were hospitalized in Big Spring in stable condition. No citations issued.
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Martin County
Maggie Ramirez
DPS
Facunda Karr
Aurora
Colo
Howard County
Ramirez
Juan Karr
U.S. 87
Ninfa Karr
Jason Robles
Scenic Mountain Medical Center
Big Spring
Facunda
Travis McRee
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Kevin Buehler
Heritageholiday.org
Super
E. Highway 80
Byron Avenue
Oleander Lane
42Nd St
U.S. Army
Victor Ramirez
Diario DE EL Paso
Feds, Texas
Square Off
THE
Associated Press
Ector County
Oapa.com
USA
Rollover
Odessas
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