Holiday closures announced for MLK Day across Odessa area
Ector County Independent School District University of Texas of the Permian Basin and Odessa College will close Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. City offices and police and sheriff offices close. Trash collection shifts to Tuesday for Monday pickup. Regular business offices also closed.
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Ector County Independent School District
University of Texas of the Permian Basin
Odessa College
City of Odessa
Odessa Police Department
Ector County Sheriff's Office
MLK events in Odessa kick off January celebration
The Black Cultural Council of Odessa hosts multiple MLK events in January. A gospel celebration begins at 3 p.m. today at First Baptist Church with Rev. James E. Brice Sr. speaking, followed by a 6 a.m. breakfast Monday at Odessa Regional Medical Center. Una Voz Unida offers a 9:30 a.m. Monday declamation at South Side Senior Center. Zephaniah Blaylock, an Ector County ISD sophomore, speaks at 11 a.m. during the Kings Rally at the senior center, then a Freedom March and a candlelight vigil conclude the activities. For more information call 305-0369.
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Black Cultural Council of
Odessa
Martin Luther King Jr
First Baptist Church
N. Lee St
James E. Brice Sr
Odessa Regional Medical Center
BCCO
Una Voz Unida
Southside Senior Center
S. Dixie Blvd
Kings
Senior Center
Ector County Isd
Zephaniah Blaylock
Woodson Community Center
E. Murphy St
Jail strategies split in race to succeed Ector sheriff
Republican candidates Joe Commander and Mike Griffis outline plans to curb overcrowding at the Ector County Detention Center as a primary race unfolds with no Democratic challenger. The county faced warnings from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards about bed and jailer ratios, risking state takeover and mass transfers to other counties.
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Mark Donaldson
Ector County Detention Center
Donaldson
Joe Commander
Mike Griffis
Texas Commission On Jail Standards
Ector County
Election IT Budget Allocated For Sheriff Program
The court budgets 1.8 million dollars this fiscal year to fund the See sheriff program as detailed on page 3A.
Giddy Up at Special Needs Rodeo in Odessa
Mark Robinson helps daughter Ashlynn Robinson on a rocking horse as volunteers Amanda Nardo and Alexus Galindo watch during the Special Needs Rodeo at the Ector County Coliseum. Diane Robinson says the family has adopted three children and this was their first event.
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Mark Robinson
Ashlynn Robinson
Amanda Nardo
Alexus Galindo
Ector County Coliseum
Robinson
Diane Robinson
Four candidates vie for Ector County commissioner seat
Four Republicans compete for the Precinct 1 county commissioner nomination in Ector County with Eddy Shelton, Milton Thompson, Troy Walker, and Dale Wayne Dugger seeking the post. Incumbent Shelton, appointed in 2014, campaigns amid talks of a possible courthouse bond costing around 82 to 98 million. Primary March 1. no Democratic challenger. Early voting Feb 16–26. last day to register Feb 1.
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Ector County
Eddy Shelton
Odessa High School
Milton Thompson
Troy Walker
Dale Wayne
Hoss” Dugger
Shelton
Susan Redford
Freddie Gardner
Gardner
Midland County
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