MonAhans News trims staff amid cost cuts
Publisher Smokey Briggs announced layoffs at the MonAhans News, downsizing Managing Editor Bill Modisett and former Publisher Linda Stephens along with Sports Editor Dave Poynor on June 3. Paula Bard becomes managing editor while Brenden Briggs serves as news editor.
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MonAhans News
Smokey Briggs
Briggs
Laurie
Pecos Enterprise
Pecos
Bill Modisett
Linda Stephens
Dave Poynor
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Paula Bard
Brenden Briggs
Modisett
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Texas
Mudbug fund-raiser boosts Meals on Wheels profits
Mudbug VI drew crowds at Graham Central Station with crawfish shrimp catfish and hushpuppies raising cash and in kind gifts for Meals on Wheels. As of Monday morning the event had $100501 in donations and expects about 70000 after expenses.
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Matt Graham
Phillis Warren
Graham Central Station
Preston Smith Road
Meals On Wheels
Margaret Burton
Graham’s
Burton
Odessa Regional Hospital
United Way
Odessa College mulls plan for 20 year master campus
Odessa College trustees reviewed a 20 year conceptual master plan at a daylong workshop. The plan aims to reshape campus construction and pedestrian friendly routes, with a July vote on adoption. President Vance Gipson said the effort focuses on facilities, demolitions, and traffic changes for the next two decades.
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Odessa College
Vance Gipson
Gipson
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Hospital board to discuss rehab unit
The Ector County Hospital District Board will decide if the new 22 room in patient rehabilitation unit at Medical Center Hospital is managed in house or via contract. The unit costing 1.86 million rises on 3 West as day surgery and Endoscopy move to Dr Wheatley Stewart Medical Pavilion opened in May. The unit must open by Oct 1 under Medicare rules. The agenda includes a cardiac rehab physician contract and reports from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
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Ector County Hospital District Board
Medical Center Hospital
Tony Ruiz
Wheatley Stewart
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Journalist named Texas Ambassador of Music for West Texas
Allen Martin of Monahans was named Ambassador of Music for Texas after a joke by state lawmakers. The proclamation passed in October 2003, with Ward County designating May 24 as Texas Ambassador of Music Week to honor him. Martin joins West Texas emissaries alongside musician friends like Jerry Jeff Walker and Willie Nelson, amid notes of a broader Texas music network.
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Martin
State of Texas
Ward County
Texas
Allen Damron
Terlingua
West Texas
Jerry Jeff Walker
Rusty Wier
Willie Nelson
Gary Nunn
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