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Travis Bubenik/Marfa Public RadioThe Big Bend Sentinel on Tuesday published an audio recording of a conversation in which three male Marfa City Council members suggested they wanted to hire a man for a city administrator position. -
Mitch Borden/Marfa Public RadioOn Saturday, voters in the Big Bend and Permian Basin rejected funding proposals for education and water infrastructure and elected new local government officials. Voters in Ector County approved two emergency services districts that will bring fire and EMS operations to unincorporated parts of the county.
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An Austin-based tech firm was supposed to help the county fix a growing problem of short-term rental owners not paying lodging taxes, but officials have decided the effort is not worth continued funding. -
Locals passed the largest of three bond propositions brought by Ector County Independent School District, but rejected efforts to repair a local football stadium and build an athletics facility. -
El Cosmico is in discussions with officials about building or using an existing road through a county-owned park for tourists to access the hotel’s new location. Some locals are strongly opposed to the idea. -
The project, which involved widening the bridge from two lanes to four and adding a new pedestrian walkway, was completed Sept. 15, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.
