June 2021

Fort Stockton High School volleyball camp

Body Fort Stockton High School hosted their annual volleyball camp on June 29 for third through ninth grade students. Prowlers first-year head coach Gabrielle Marquez ran the camp while her assistants and high school athletes aided in instruction.
Fort Stockton High School volleyball camp

Little Leaguers headed to Lubbock

Body The Fort Stockton Majors Allstar Team will be playing in the 12 and under Section 1 tournament on July 2. The little league baseball team (ages 10-12) will travel to Lubbock for the competition.
Little Leaguers headed to Lubbock

Sectional champions

Body The 50/70 All-Star baseball team capped a dominant month of June with a sectional title victory against Floyd Gwin on June 28 after playing over the course of the four previous days. The little league team won the District 37 Tournament in Fort Stockton on June 14-15.
Sectional champions

Hiring authority regained by superintendent

Body When the Fort Stockton Independent School District School Board narrowed its search to a final list of candidates for interviews this past May for the superintendent job, the group decided to take away the final hiring authority for contract personnel from the head of the school...
Fort Stockton School Board and Superintendent

111 YEARS OF RANCHING

Body The Hayter family celebrated the 111th anniversary of ranching at the Hayter Ranch on June 19, located 40 miles west of Fort Stockton in Pecos County. The Hayter Ranch has continued agricultural production by the same family for the last 111 years.
111 YEARS OF RANCHING

Variance allowed for business

Body The Fort Stockton City Council met in regular session on June 22, and heard presentations from Texas New Mexico Power and the Recreation Department, and discussed several ordinance and infrastructure changes.
Pictured is the building at 123 N. Main St., which received approval for an alcohol permit at Tuesday's city council meeting. The business, which is yet to be in operation, is owned Albert Valadez.

FSISD hires 9 new teachers

Body The Fort Stockton Independent School District made the hirings of nine new teachers official on Monday at a special school board meeting. Superintendent Dr.
Administration Building

Remember to buckle up every time

Body “Who do you buckle up for” is a question asked by the Kailee Mills Foundation, an organization established in memory of 16-year-old Kailee Mills who lost her life in 2017 in a crash when she unbuckled for a moment in the backseat of a car on her way to a nearby Halloween Party.
Remember to buckle up every time

Illegals apprehended

Body Late on June 21 Brewster County deputies conducted a traffic stop on an RV near the Big Bend National Park entrance on Texas Highway 118 south of Study Butte. The vehicle was occupied by 49 illegal aliens from Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico, along with two U.S.
Forty-nine immigrants huddled in an RV stopped by Brewster County deputies near Big Bend National Park. Courtesy photo