Gossip, rumors no help to Titan athletic co-op

The semi-annual joint board meeting of the Odessa-Harrington Athletic Cooperative was held in Harrington on February 1.

Odessa school superintendent Dan Read brought up financial and logistical issues and prompted a discussion of the future of the cooperative. In a report to his staff, he said that he brought up these subjects intentionally because he knew that conversations were taking place in both communities that needed to come out in a public forum. He also said he expected tension at the meeting, as numerous people in both communities had differing opinions on various aspects of the coop...