April 2021

April 12, 1962 issue: FIRST IN JUDGING – The Pecos County 4-H livestock judging team, left to right, Ross Jones, Hank Taylor, Adult leader Charles Taylor, Budd Hammond and Butch Taylor, won first over a field of 14 teams last weened at Sul Ross.

Alex Williams accomplished one of the rarest feats you can achieve on a golf course on Tuesday during the first round of the district golf tournament in Lubbock.

The JV Blue Panthers baseball team hosted the Monahans junior varsity on Tuesday afternoon. Solid pitching performances by Xzavier Dominguez and Julian Leyva set the tone for the Panthers.

The Fort Stockton junior varsity softball team made an improvement from their first outing against Monahans earlier in the season, but came up short in a 10-6 loss on Tuesday evening at home. “After losing the first game earlier in the season 10-1, the Prowlers knew they had to answer back.

The Fort Stockton junior varsity track teams concluded their season at the district track meet in Andrews on March 31 and April 1.

You can’t escape politics anywhere now, not even in America’s once great pastime, baseball. A pastime, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is “something that amuses and serves to make time pass agreeably.” Boy, did the Pittsburgh Pirates accomplish that for me most of my early life.

This is almost too easy but I can’t resist. I was going to write a column about President Biden’s dog, Major, biting people, also among the lowest of the hanging fruits. “President’s dog a Major pain.” It writes itself.

In 2021, it is not uncommon to hear some unusual names, but possibly one of the most uncommon of names arrived in Fort Stockton this week. “My name is Spiral Staircase,” said the wanderer without giving a second thought.

In 1977, CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) was started by judge David Soukup in Seattle, Wash. when he decided he needed to know more about the children whose lives were in his hands.

Having just celebrated the Easter holiday, it may be hard to comprehend that 10,000 years before the birth of Jesus Christ, there was a community of hunter-gatherers living out here in Pecos County.