Message from the publisher

After much agonizing and several months of searching for anyone with ties to Odessa who might want to take over publication of The Odessa Record, we have decided that interest in a small weekly newspaper simply isn’t present among current and former Odessa folks. So the time has come, for the sake of family and for health reasons, to hang up the red editor’s pen and try to enjoy some more relaxed years of retirement.

The job has been enjoyable for the most part, and the expressions of thanks for our efforts by several avid readers of and subscribers to The Record have certainly been appreciate...