August 2023

The Fort Stockton cross country teams continued their drive to the district championship by competing in the Tall City Invitational in Midland over the weekend. This is one of the biggest meets not only in the Permian Basin but in the state of Texas.

After a strong showing at the Nita Vannoy Tournament in San Angelo Aug. 18-19, the Fort Stockton High School Prowlers volleyball squad played host to the annual Comanche Classic at the Bill and Virginia Williams Special Events Center last Friday and Saturday. On Friday, the varsity squad took on El Paso Young Women’s Academy, the Odessa High JV and Imperial Buena Vista. The Prowlers ran the table on Friday, downing YWA 2510, 25-19, Odessa JV 25-12, 25-21, and Buena Vista 2511, 25-11.

Fort Stockton’s boys of fall kicked off their first official Friday night football game in El Paso. The Panthers took on a tough El Paso Austin squad who put up a four-quarter fight, but the Panthers came out victorious.

Nearly 60 years after discovering “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” I still watch the classic sitcom, but some of the punchlines haven’t held up particularly well. Or maybe I’m the one who hasn’t held up so well.

YOUR GUIDE TO LOCAL PLACES TO GO AND THINGS TO DO Your guide to local places to go and things to do! If you have an event for our Do Something! listing, please e-mail shawn. yorks@fortstocktonpioneer.

The Pecos County Senior Citizens Center will play host to its annual Labor Day Potluck lunch this Friday, Sept. 1, at noon at the Senior Center, located at 1010 W.

The old saying goes “God threw away the mold when He made you.” This saying was made for Patsy “Pat” Lee Barbee. A modern day West Texas pioneer and a self-taught Annie Oakley, she gave even the West Texas Game Warden a run for his money.

Psalm 119:18 (NIV) “Open my eyes to see the wonderful things in your teachings.” This beautiful verse in Psalm 119 seems to be fairly straightforward. It suggests that we should open our eyes to read about the teachings we find in the Bible.

Amid the howls of outrage and shouts of jubilation over the indictment in Georgia of former president Donald Trump on charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 election, a few cautionary voices were raised quietly expressing concern that government prosecutors appear to be piling on the ex-president and creating sympathy for him.