Teachers to learn test scores today
Envelopes notifying Ector County teachers whether they passed a teacher competency test started surfacing at Odessa post offices today. Officials said statewide results for 203000 test takers on March 10 were mailed mainly Monday and Tuesday with about 5 percent failing.
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Ector County
Odessa
U.S. Postal Service
Texas
Terri Anderson
Texas Education Agency Information Officer
Austin
Anderson
Kyle Scarborough
Pecos prison wing may be filled soon
Pecos progress at Reeves County Law Enforcement Center shows 37 inmates already moved in with a plan for a planeload of 85 more federal prisoners by week’s end. The privately funded facility opens with one wing of 150 and is certified for occupancy. Construction on two larger 200-inmate wings should finish within six weeks.
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Pecos
Reeves County Law Enforcement Center
Eddie Markham
Federal Bureau of Prisons
West Texas
Markham
San Diego
Accident victim aided by daughter after vehicle strike on Golder Ave
John Gressett, 72, of 901 W 26th St, was hit in the 4100 block of Golder Ave. He refused paramedics and went by private vehicle to Medical Center Hospital, admitted with a broken left leg. Driver Hung Cong Phan, 22, of 4100 Golder Ave No 3, was identified. No citations were issued.
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John Gressett
26Th St
Center
Elizabeth Huelster
Katheryn
Randy Grissom
Golder Avenue
Gressett
Medical Center Hospital
Hung Cong Phan
Golder Ave
Hernandez says leave of absence from school for commissioner bid
County commission candidate Joe Eddie Hernandez explains he took a leave from Permian Basin Alternative Education School pending last Saturday's Democratic primary. He says he resigned. the school’s director confirms Hernandez left April 15. Hernandez owns Cook's Discount Liquors and will face Republican Roy Gentry in November for Precinct 4.
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Joe Eddie Hernandez
Permian Basin Alternative Education
Hernandez
Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission
Precinct 4 Commission
Odessa American
Ector County
Richard Rutter
Rutter
Cook’s Discount Liquors
Andrews Highway
Roy Gentry
Precinct
Commissioners Court
Bubba Peddles Barley Diet Scheme To Customer
A door to door salesman posing as B R Gravelhauser pitches the Barley Diet relying on beer and hidden secret foods. The friend tries to sell malt activators and a miracle bar while admitting the plan is dubious and unproven. The exchange highlights skepticism and a failed weight loss pitch.
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Bubba Gravelhauser
B.R. Gravelhauser
Bubba
B.R
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