January 2021

Erlinda Barrios entered rest on Jan. 5, 2021.

Yajaira Fortson set the tone for the Blue Wave swim team on Friday, Jan. 8, in her team’s final regular season meet in Andrews.

The Fort Stockton girls basketball team showed some resiliency in the second quarter of Tuesday’s game against Greenwood at the Special Events Center on Jan. 12.

It is barely 9 o’clock on Monday morning and I have already been exposed to candle lighters and darkness cursers. A post on Facebook said it well.

Feng-pin An, P.E., has been appointed as the new area for the Fort Stockton Area Office. In his new role, Feng-pin will oversee design and construction operations in Pecos, Reeves, and Terrell counties.

: Jan. 11, 1976 Issue: RECORD BROKEN - Dale Burger, senior captain of the Blue Wave Swim Team, finally surpasses his goal by breaking the 100 yard butterfly record held at Fort Stockton High School for seven years by Jody Ferrante. He set a new record time of 1:00.9 at the Andrews meet.

PROWLERS FRESHMAN 33 GREENWOOD 30 The Prowler sub varsity team earned their second district victory in nail-biting fashion. At the end of regulation, the Prowlers had the game all tied up with Greenwood.

Pecos County native TJ Perkins was sworn in as the county’s new sheriff by Pecos County Judge Joe Shuster on Friday, Jan. 1 at the Pecos County Courthouse in Fort Stockton.

A pair of mobile homes combined into one were fully engulfed in flames on Wednesday, Dec. 30 in Fort Stockton at 227 Bishop St despite the frigid rainfall occurring during the time the fire started.

A community fixture since 1908, the Fort Stockton Pioneer last week changed hands and is now owned by JTM Newspapers. The company, owned by J.T.