Around the Basin Odessa events roundup comes alive
A glance at local happenings lists the Everyday Superhero Spring Break Theatre Camp at Permian Playhouse for K-6, Marfa Myths festival concerts and films at Lost Horse Saloon and Crowley Theater, a Torn Paper workshop by Suzy Powell in Midland, an in store signing with Sam Riggs, Cookies and Canvas kids’ class at Sherwood Park, and a Revival at Mt. Zion Baptist Church with Rev. Darrel D. Fincher.
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Permian Playhouse
W. 42Nd St
Marfa Myths
Pill
Fred
Toody
Lost Horse Saloon
Crowley Theater
Odessa sales tax surplus narrows amid oil bust declines
The March sales tax check for Odessa fell to about 2.75 million, down more than 24 percent from a year earlier as oil downturns bite. The city remains 1.0 percent over budget with 16.58 million in total receipts, but warns of dipping into reserves if declines continue. Odessa Development Corporation receives about 551 thousand.
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Odessa
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Odessa Development Corporation
Konrad Hildebrandt
Hildebrandt
Students rally as Spring break boosts local nonprofits
Volunteers from West Texas and UTPB, including 20 softball players, lend hours to food bank operations. Texas Scholars program links student service with scholarships, while agencies praise faster food distribution and community ties during the break.
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West Texas Food Bank
Rosie Simmons
Food Bank
Texas
Ector County Independent School District
Odessa Chamber of Commerce
ECISD
Ector County
Simmons
UTPB
Tiala Tagaloa
Odessa
Texas Scholars Program
Tinyur. Com
Wtxfoodbank.org
What Yeshua Can Do heads to Andrews County Expo concert
What Yeshua Can Do presents a concert at Andrews County Expo 1441 Highway 176 Andrews with guest Hank Nelson and I Am They. Call 800-965-9324 or visit whatstickets. Kansas show also listed at The Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center Midland 1310 N. FM 1788 with box hours noon to 5 pm Monday through Friday. Call 800-514-3849. Visit wagnernoel.com. SENIOR DANCE West Texas Dance Club hosts 730 pm to 10 pm at VFW Building 301 E. Gist St with live band Tommy Jean and Jerry and Co. Admission 5 member 6 nonmember. Cail Betty Berry 528-6308.
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Andrews County
Highway 176
Andrews
Hank Nelson
I Am They
Kansas
Wagner Noel
N. FM
Midland
Wagnernoel.com
West Texas Dance Club
Tommy, Jean and Jerry and Co
UTPB Wins Large Teacher Quality Grant for 60 Math Teachers
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin earned a $525,000 Teacher Quality grant for 60 fourth through eighth grade math teachers in UTPB STEM Academy and the Ector Midland Presidio and Marfa districts. The program funds on site professional development, workshops starting this summer, and includes stipends, tablets, TI calculators, and manipulatives.
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University of Texas of the
Permian Basin
Texas
Utpb Stem Academy
Ector
Midland
Presidio
Marfa Independent
Ratheal-Burnett
Marfa
Odessa
Koepp
Coordinating Board
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Permianplay
Yahoo.com
Permianplayhouse.com
Suzy Powell
Midland Palette Club
W. Wadley Ave
Somita Fekete
Somitafekete
Gmail.com
Sam Riggs
Hastings Books
W. Cuthbert Ave
Suite 3
Sherwood Park Community Center
N. Everglade Ave
Odessa-Tx. Gov
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Wabash Ave
Darrel D. Fincher
Los Logos Fellowship Baptist Church
Rowlett
Aoa
Community Service
University of Texas of
The
Mark Sterkel
Odessa College
She
Brianna Red
el Paso
Red
Adrianna Bertoza
Bertoza
Yeshua
Tenth Avenue North
VFW
E. Gist St
Cail
Betty Berry
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Juli D’ann Ratheal-Burnett
West Texas Mathematics Collaborative
Ratheal-Bur
Ratheal- Burnett
Christopher Hiatt
Warren Koepp
Pate
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