Editorial

The time has come for the current owners of this newspaper to give serious thought to retirement. We have run The Odessa Record for seven years, plus the years spent working under the previous owner Don Walter. It has been mostly a rewarding and fulfilling endeavor, despite the weekly deadlines and hectic nature of the business.

But the time has come to think about slowing down. Our purpose in moving back to Odessa was to be closer to family and to help out our elderly mother. The newspaper takes up way too much of our time, and family has unfortunately taken a back seat. We need to change tha...