Fiesta West Texas Opens With Parade At Ector Coliseum
Festive crowds line Grant Avenue as a Cinco de Mayo parade begins Saturday morning led by a marching band. A young rider waves from a convertible as a Ferris wheel glows at the Fiesta West Texas opening. Biker Kevin Gutierrez performs tricks for spectators during the event.
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Ector County Coliseum
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Kevin Gutierrez
City celebrates Cinco de Mayo in Odessa parade
Hundreds lined Grant Avenue for the Odessa Barrio Lions Club Cinco de Mayo parade from Odessa College toward the Ector County ISD offices. President Pete Almanza said the event focused on children with mostly elementary school floats from Travis and Cavazos and Head Start. Ojinaga Mexico mayor Victor Sotelo Mata attended, riding with delegates as Odessa reinforces sister city ties.
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Mexico
Victor Sotelo Mata
Almanza
Incumbents sweep ECISD school board seats
The Ector County Independent School District board remains unchanged as four incumbents win re elections. Delma Abalos tops position 2 with 227 votes 76.69 percent over Alex Sosa 69 votes 23.31 percent. Phil Fouche wins position 7 with 679 votes 67.03 percent defeating Rita Neal 188 votes 18.56 percent and Dennis Berg 146 votes 14.41 percent. Fouche says gains for students and district are the focus and notes the aging district requires work with the new superintendent Roy Benavides.
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Rita Neal
Dennis Berg
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Neal
Berg
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Abalos
Roy Benavides
New member joins Ector County Hospital District board
Judy Hayes won District 1 with 474 votes or 57.18 percent over Roger McNeil 355 votes or 42.82 percent. Joe Buice and Virgil Trower were re elected in District 3 and 7 respectively. McNeil, pastor of St James Baptist Church, served two prior terms and urged patient care improvements and elderly and indigent programs.
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Roger McNeil
Joe Buice
Virgil Trower
West Texas
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McNeil
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MCH
Police disrupt three-year Mexican meth smuggling ring in Amarillo
A three year probe halted a methamphetamine smuggling operation from Mexico into the Permian Basin. Seven suspects including individuals from Odessa Amarillo and Durango face possession with intent to distribute charges. Arrangements followed arrests about 1 30 a m Friday with arraignments held that day.
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Midland/Odessa
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Larry Wayne McGill
Jose Hector Flores
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Odessa
Francisco Reynosa Martinez
Juan Antonio Sanchez
Durango
Pablo Gutierrez Sanchez
Jorge Campos Rios
Chihuahua
Lara Meckfessel
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