Family Dollar looks to build $50 million distribution center in Odessa
Odessa officials weigh a Freeport Exemption to lure Family Dollar's proposed 900000 square foot center on Interstate 20. ECISD directors and Odessa Chamber of Commerce economic development leaders say the project could create 500 jobs and $7.5 million in annual salaries, with tax relief tied to goods in transit.
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Neil McDonald
Odessa Chamber of Commerce
ODC
Tech plans med school expansion in Odessa teaching role
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Odessa could become a larger teaching hospital as TTUHSC expands its Medical School. Officials expect the Odessa campus to host the final two years for more students, adding surgery and psychiatry facilities and allied departments, with a target start by August 2004.
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Odessa
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Tech
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Donald Loveman
Ttuhsc
Loveman
Amarillo
el Paso
Richard Homan
School of Medicine
Homan
Ector County Hospital
Cowboy visitor sparks library reading at Noel Heritage Plaza
Ector County Library summer program welcomed Judson Bennett, famed as Buffalo Bill at Euro-Disney, who performed rope tricks for children like eight year old Meagan Harshbarger at Noel Heritage Plaza. Kids also met live wallabies and rode a cowboy saddle as motivation to read this summer.
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Ector County Library
Noel Heritage Plaza
Judson Bennett
Buffalo Bill
Euro-Disney
Meagan Harshbarger
Meagan
Ireland
Klynky the Clown
Nelda Lane
Ector County
Dangerfield seeks reconsideration for city planning seat
Odessa resident Don Dangerfield asks the City Council to reconsider his candidacy for the planning and zoning commission after back-to-back 3-2 denials. District 1's Bill Cleaver would nominate only Dangerfield if he remains interested, while three council members cited past threats at water park openings as a reason for opposition.
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Odessa
Don Dangerfield
Dangerfield
Planning and Zoning Commission
Cleaver
Jim Morris
Royce Bodiford
Brandon Tate
Sherwood
Woodson Parks
Odessa agency helps 45 teen mothers in Odessa
Buckner Healthy Families honors 45 teen mothers at Odessa College as 22 graduates, seven in college, five in college applications. Morales, 19, credits the program for guiding her from pregnancy at 17 to high school graduation, job, apartment, and college plans while her son Angel learns and plays. Family workers visit every two weeks with lessons on child development, finances, and education.
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Belen Morales
Angel
Odessa College
Cane
Morales
Buckner Healthy Families
Odessa
Liz
Buckner
Elizabeth Romo
Odessa adopts six EPA storm water controls
Odessa Public Works Director Matt Squyers says the city will implement six EPA recommended measures to improve storm drainage. The plan covers public education and involvement, illicit discharge detection, construction and post construction runoff, and pollution prevention to clean storm waters from source to river systems.
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Odessa
Environmental Protection Agency
Odessa Public Works
Matt Squyers
EPA
Squyers
Squyres
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