March 2021

On March 22 at approximately 2 p.m., a Pecos County EMS ambulance caught fire while transporting a patient to another EMS entity who was waiting for them at Ward County Hospital in Monahans. The medic driving the ambulance noticed the flames coming from the passenger front side of the vehicle after being alerted by a bystander Blake Heflin.

The Fort Stockton City Council met in regular session on March 23, and voted to skip the city/county clean-up customarily scheduled for the last two weeks of March and the first week of April. Council members also approved the city’s final audit for the fiscal year ending Sept. 20, 2020, as well as numerous other routine agenda items.

Grand champion Danny Luera (Inhognito) with Miss Fort Stockton Katie Salmon. Photos by Nathan Heuer Steak first place Joshua Simons (Placebo Effect).

Dear Neil: My Gold Star esperanzas may have frozen this past winter. I have yet to see any green growth. I cut the tops back to the ground and still have them mulched in pecan leaves. Should I give up on them?

March March 18, 1993 issue: COUNTRY ADDRESS OPENING celebration was held on March 13. New owner Joyce Childs was assisted by her granddaughter, Lyndsey Childs in cutting the blue ribbon supplied by the Fort Stockton Chamber of Commerce. Numerous friends and members of the ambassadors club attended the gala event.

U.S. Congressman, Dist. 23, Tony Gonzales last week announced over $3.3 million in grant money from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for health center clusters in the Texas 23rd District.

After looking at the first three letters of the SCAN (sufficiency, clarity, authorityand necessity) acronym used to describe the characteristics of the Bible, we will finish by looking at reality that the Bible is necessary. By saying that the Bible is necessary, we are saying that we cannot truly know God, His will, or the way of salvation apart from God’s special revelation in His Word.

Pecos County Emergency Management Coordinator Jessie Dominguez and the county commissioners decided to put the bum ban back into effect at the group’s regular meeting on March 22. The bum ban was lifted on Jan.

In Volume 2 of Pecos County History, John Oates’ daughters, Ruth and Mary Elizabeth, wrote of his coming to Fort Stockton, and of the buildings C.S. and John Oats Construction erected in Texas and New Mexico.

Two weeks after Governor Greg Abbott’s executive order went into effect, COVID-19 active cases continue to stay low in Pecos County. Pecos County had six active cases on March 10 - the day the order started - and number has gone no higher than eight since that time.