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When Alma Rodriguez experienced the love and comfort hospice provided her mother 12 years ago, the San Angelo native knew that she wanted to give back the blessing that was given to her family. Rodriguez soon joined Hospice of San Angelo and found great joy in being able to provide comfort to families during the process of losing a loved one.

Logan Hardee, middle, was named the Alamo Student of the Month for September at Monday’s school board meeting. Hardee was presented the award by principal Sabrina Cordova.

Fort Stockton High School band members, football players and cheerleaders put on a pep rally for residents at Focused Care at Fort Stockton on Oct. 14. The cheerleaders led a variety of cheers and the band played the school fight song along with many other tunes for the residents. Football players handed out mini Panther cheering megaphones as the pep rally concluded. Photos by Nathan Heuer

Fort Stockton High School freshman Arael De La Rosa helps pick up trash in the city as a part of a clean-up event hosted by the Keeping Fort Stockton Beautiful organization on Oct. 9. Every grade is encouraged to do volunteer hours towards their Scholars Hours - a state program that recognizes students for their volunteerism when they graduate. Freshmen have a requirement of five hours and the amount of time needed for the recognition increases with each grade level. Courtesy Photos

It’s official. Dallas has finally unveiled a monument to two of its bestknown hometown musical talents.

Royce Coleman is an avid newspaper reader and native of West Texas. Driving in from Flower Mound (northwest of Dallas), he looked relieved to be lodging downtown at the historic Achterburg house.

The Fort Stockton homecoming parade took on Oct. 7 and featured hundreds of students and community members/businesses. The parade was the first since 2019 after the pandemic forced the school district to not host one a year ago. Photos by Nathan Heuer

Toastmasters met Sept. 24th at the Fort Stockton Public Library. Congratulations go to Oscar Gonzalez, Alicia Salinas and Karan Heffelfinger for earning awards at the meeting. Oscar Gonzalez was presented the Best Speaker Award by Karan Heffelfinger, Alicia Salinas was presented the Best Table Topics Award by Karan Heffelfinger, and Karan Heffelfinger was presented the Best Evaluator Award by Dee Dee Warren.