February 2021

Fort Stockton Pioneer readers will notice some familiarity in the content produced moving forward. Starting this week, the Fort Stockton Pioneer will be featuring articles from former reporters Jeremy Gonzalez and Bethany Gaylor.

E.N.E Electrical Services owner Oscar Franco has lived in Fort Stockton his entire life - 52 years to be exact. It’s a community he cares about deeply and when frigid temperatures caused the power to go out for nearly the entire town, he didn’t hesitate to help those that were dire need.

If 2020 was the year from hell, it looks like 2021 is the year hell froze over. This last week has been very tough on Texans, as multiple winter storms swept across the Lone Star State, dropping over 29 million Texans into the deep freeze.

He couldn’t have been more than a kid, early 20s maybe, though he looked older. Life outdoors tends to age a person prematurely.

The Prowlers junior varsity softball squad used a collective team effort to get a dominant victory to start the season on the road against Kermit on Tuesday, Feb. 23 after the first game against Kermit.

The Buena Vista and Iraan girls basketball teams saw their seasons come to an end on Saturday, Feb. 20 in the Class 1A area round of the playoffs (round of 64).

The prelude to the 2021 campaign at Saturday’s Comanche Classic was almost as good as the encore on Tuesday evening for the Prowlers softball team in an away game to open the regular season at Kermit.

Dear Neil: What is going on with our sago pahn? It’s growing in this bizarre way with at least a dozen new heads. What should I do? This is called fasciation, where cells divide in two planes instead of in all directions.

Feb. 9, 1989 Issue: SNOOPY ANTICS - Randy Ham, left and Jim Larson ham it up during “Snoopy!!”, a musical presented the past two weekends by Fort Stockton Community Theatre.

During February we celebrate heart healthy foods. Heart healthy foods deliver a powerful dose of phytonutrients that prevent and repair cell damage, the essence of preventing heart disease. “Fruits and vegetables in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes are good for one’s heart,” said Julia Zumpano, a dietitian with the Preventive Cardiology Center at the Cleveland Clinic.