County approves Gates grant for Ector Library upgrades
County commissioners unanimously accepted a Gates Foundation library grant totaling over 60 thousand dollars for four general access computers and a computer lab plus three years of support and upgrades. The plan includes a library endowment funded by interest, free public Internet, and four year computer upgrades at the library’s expense. First American Home Buyers Protection and Standard Structures Inc were granted tax abatements, with jobs planned at a customer service center in south Odessa and 12 additional local positions at Standard Structures.
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CiviGenics
Ector County
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Terri Decker
Gates Foundation
Barbara Sharp
Library Department
First American Home Buyers
The
Odessa
Bomb threat at courthouse prompts police response and court closure
Sheriff’s office on scene with a bomb sniffing dog from Ector County District on standby as a bomb trailer monitored the search. Judge Jay Gibson and his wife watched from nearby offices after the Monday morning scare ending around 3 30 p m. The threat is being investigated as a terrorist threat and the courthouse was set to reopen the next day.
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Ector County
Sheriff's Department
70Th District Court
Jay Gibson
Rhonda
Fourth Street
Texas Avenue
Rhonda Gibson
Gladden
Donaldson
Child, teen tied to incidents in Odessa and Big Spring
A 10-year-old girl says a man she knows sexually touched her Sunday night in northwest Odessa. A 17-year-old Big Spring man was released after posting bond on unauthorized use of a vehicle with a $5,000 bail for Terry Scott Diaz.
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Odessa
Big Spring
Ector County
Terry Scott Diaz
Water region group meets as unmet water demand grows
The regional planning group for Water Region F, including Midland and ten surrounding counties, reports unmet water demand exceeding 199 000 acre feet in 2000. Midland, Reeves, Tom Green lead projected deficits while drip irrigation and other methods could cut needs. regional and state plans require completion by 2001–2002 with 20 year horizons.
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Big Spring
Midland County
Andrews, Borden
Glasscock
Loving
Martin
Reagan
Reeves
Tom Green
Upton
Ward
Johnson
Texas Development Water Board
Texas Water Development Board
Water Development Board
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Christina Minor
Beltone
Midland
W. Wall
W. Marcy
Wallis
West Texas
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