Town Council

The Odessa Town Council met Monday evening in the public library to discuss the town’s business.

Council member Terry Goetz reported on the history of Odessa’s downtown trees. Recent discussions at meetings of the Odessa Chamber of Commerce and Town Council had led to more questions than answers regarding responsibility for the trees.

Goetz quoted the May 3, 2007 edition of The Odessa Record in which then publisher Don Walter wrote that the Kwanson flowering cherry trees that had been planted along the First Avenue business district in 1992 had begun to die off one by one. Jerry Schafer was th...