Odessa council reviews land buys and water project
Odessa City Council spent most of its second day in executive session to discuss land acquisitions for a new sewage treatment plant and a three million gallon elevated water tank near Oakwood and Parkway. Easterling Funeral Home seeks an extension of its emergency transfer contract, with a Nov. 30 expiry, while other actions include finalizing poly-drug center phase two and approving a replat of Payne Addition.
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Odessa
Easterling Funeral Home
Kerry Sweatt
Oakwood and
Parkway
Building Board of Appeals
Board of Survey
Planning and Zoning Board
Poly-Drug Center
Floyd Gwin Park
Payne Addition
Tax receipts from mixed drinks rise in Texas third quarter
Texas Comptroller reports gross receipts taxes on mixed drinks brought in 16.7 million dollars in Q3, roughly the same as Q2. The 10 percent tax funds 15 percent to counties and cities, with the remainder to the state. Houston led rebates at 646,178 dollars, while Whitney received 754 dollars.
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Austin
Texas
Bob Bullock
Bullock
Houston
Whitney
Pair of vandalisms reported to city police
Two vandalisms probed by police resulted in about 700 dollars in damages. Pam J. Wyson reported two tires punctured shoe polish on the finish and gouges on her car at 2455 Idlewood, with about 400 dollars in losses. Patricia Weaver said a pellet gun shot shattered a back window damaged chrome and roof of her car at 2700 block of Bookins, totaling about 300 dollars.
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Pam J. Wyson
Idlewood
Patricia Weaver
Pagewood
Dear Abby Right Wrong and A Reader Q&A Summary
Dear Abby addresses moral comparisons between premarital sex and shoplifting, urging parents to provide full sex education to protect teens from VD and unwanted pregnancies. It also covers a 10-year-old aspiring actress advised to finish high school and college, a license fraud warning about falsifying birth dates, and the seriousness of misrepresenting age for alcohol or driving.
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Abby
Florida
Odessa Man’s DWI Appeal Dismissed by Texas Court
Odessa man Benny Lee Kerr 26 of 6303 Kermit had a Jan. 24 DWI conviction in Ector County, with a six month jail term and a $250 fine from County Judge Gary Watkins. Kerr, arrested Oct. 22 at Murphy and Grant by DPS troopers, saw the case dismissed for cause as no briefs were filed.
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Austin
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Odessa
Ector County
Benny Lee Kerr
Kermit
Gary Watkins
Kerr
Murphy and
Grant
Department of Public Safety
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Shelley Barker
Cook Addition
University Gardens
Wise Addition
Midland
Central Fire Station
Fred Poe
Texas and
Fort Worth
Poe
Rose & Sons Inc
Chako, Zentner and Marcum Architects
San Angelo
Electrical Code
Ector County Community Outreach
Bob Bryant
Amburgey
West 13Th
Hunt Building Corp
Frank Childs
N. Dixie
Balones & Wizons Pants
Sears
Podre Luau
Scientific Coast von Deep
Hesrets Sauna
Ash
Sears Credit Plans
Wreal
America
E. &Th St
Abigail van Buren
Department of Motor Vehicles
Missouri
ST. Louis
Odessan
Palizzio
Barnes & Pelletier
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