County budget talks highlight senior center cuts and layoff concerns
Commissioners held daily budget workshops ahead of finalizing next fiscal year funding. Employees including seniors center staff faced layoffs amid revenue shortfalls. Some workers described abrupt notices while others urged earlier input and transparency in decisions. Eckert cited director-led processes and promised better revenue strategies to avoid future cuts.
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Flores
Ector
Ector County
Veterans Services
Health Department
Dorothy Hall-Jenkins
Hall-Jenkins
Odessa OA past and present Sept 26 highlights in 1954 1967 1978 1982 1994 2002 2014
A compact retro odometer of Sept 26 dates across decades in Odessa and Permian Basin. News items include a $250 Western Union holdup capture alert and a flood in Harlingen and Brownsville. Local raises and purchases, desegregation efforts, and notable people such as Becky Neighbors crowned fair queen, Jim Hall displays, and Gov. Rick Perry proposals shape a vivid regional mosaic.
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Blondie
Dagwood
Western Union
Odessa
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Babe J. Griffith Jr
Pecos
Becky Neighbors
Louisiana Department of Corrections
Midland
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Mark White
Ector
Permian
Texas
Los Angeles
Billy Joel
Christie Brinkley
Sam Houston
Huntsville
Jim Hall
Petroleum Museum
Rick Perry
Permian Basin
Chris
Julie Garrett
Emily Sharlach
Erin Sharlach
Samaritan Counseling Center
Anchorage
Odessa newspapers go digital with full searchable archives
The Odessa American and related papers join Newspapers com, offering 14 million pages searchable by keyword. Users can uncover birth, death, and marriage records across archives dating from 1919 onward, including the Odessa Herald from June 14, 1919 and Odessa American from October 2, 1941.
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Odessa News
Ector County
Archives access details for OAPA subscriptions
Archives available via oapa.com under archives with affordable plans four ninety five monthly or nineteen ninety five for six months. Archives hosted by Newspapers com and Ancestry com hold thousands of publications searchable by name subject or date. Online search shows full pages including articles photos and ads with two instructional videos.
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Odessa woman charged with abandoning five children and cocaine possession
Odessa Police say Krista Ann Cuellar abandoned five children from ages 6 months to 7 years and possessed cocaine. A traffic stop at 1100 block Milburn Avenue led to detention. welfare check at 1518 Musk ingum Avenue uncovered a wide open home and unguarded kids. Cuellar faces five counts of abandoning a child and one count of cocaine possession, held on two $15,000 bonds.
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Odessa
OPD
Milburn Avenue
Krista Ann Cuellar
Cuellar
N. Muskingum Ave
Ector County
Texas sanctuary cities law upheld in part by appeals court
A three judge panel of the 5th Circuit in New Orleans ruled Texas can enforce key parts of Senate Bill 4 requiring compliance with certain ICE detainer requests. The ruling preserves some limits and leaves room for interpretation, with oral arguments set for November.
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Texas
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New Orleans
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Ken Paxton
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S
Orlando Garcia
Paxton
Houston
Dallas
Nina Perales
Mexican American Defense and Legal Education Fund
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el Paso
ACLU
Lee Gelernt
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