Olney Police Officer Joe Logan will move fulltime into code enforcement to speed up the City’s attempts to clean up code violations and tear down condemned structures, Police Chief Dan Birbeck told the City Council at its March 13 meeting.
Six Olney High School band students will be traveling to the Austin area on Friday, May 24, for the 2013 Texas State Solo and Ensemble Contest. Students from Olney competing include senior Britney Robertson, juniors Annie Hirsch, Schelby Ming, Dionecia Petit and Hannah Taylor and freshman William Allen.
Olney police arrested two men for drug possession and for possessing roosters and paraphernalia used in cockfighting as they drove through town, Chief Dan Birbeck said. The officer pulled over the white four-door sedan with Colorado license plates for speeding down Main Street on Feb. 24, Chief Birbeck said. The officer smelled marijuana wafting from inside the vehicle, and asked to search it, Chief Birbeck said. He found five fighting roosters being transported illegally in wood- en boxes, he said. “They were being transported inhumanely with the intent to fight them,” he said. The officer also discovered cockfighting paraphernalia, including “gaffs” or razors to attach to the roosters’ legs, he said.
213 E. Main St.
PO Box 577
Olney, Texas 76374
Phone: (940) 564-5558
Fax: (940) 564-3992