City Administrator Simon Dwyer outlined Olney’s application for a $750,000 grant from the Texas Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) during a public hearing held before the June 9 City Council meeting.
Three unopposed candidates—Steve Nurre, Thea Sullivan, and Chuck Stennett—were officially sworn in as members of the Olney City Council at the Council’s June 9 meeting.
Barry Hodges, co-owner of Big Luv’s BBQ in Olney, asked the City Council on June 9 to consider increasing food truck fees and tightening regulations, arguing that mobile vendors are cutting into the revenues of brick-and-mortar restaurants without sharing the financial burden of doing business in the city.
The state director of the Texas Farm Bureau will host an informational meeting on Monday, June 23 at 7 p.m. to address the looming threat of the New World Screwworm, an invasive parasitic fly whose larvae feed on the living tissue of warm-blooded animals.
213 E. Main St.
PO Box 577
Olney, Texas 76374
Phone: (940) 564-5558
Fax: (940) 564-3992
