Meat processing could resume March 31

The Odessa Town Council met Monday night to hear the welcome news that the livestock processing facility at the Odessa Industrial Park is slated to resume operation by the end of March. At the meeting was Ellie Key, permit manager with the state Department of Ecology, as well as Kim Ramm, president of the Odessa Public Development Authority, and Margie Hall, executive director of the Lincoln County Economic Development Council.

Key said she had been working with the town’s public works director Rod Webster on issues at the wastewater treatment plant and was very happy with the current water qu...