October 2021

Where Ya Headed?

Roadrunners eat scorpions in the wild, but that wasn’t the case for Paisano Pete and Scotty. The rare crossing of a giant roadrunner and giant scorpion occurred earlier this month after a casual pit stop at the local Dairy Queen.
Scotty the scorpion and Paisano Pete were side-by-side for a moment while Omar Martinez and his son Matthew stopped in Fort Stockton. Photo by Jeremy Gonzalez

Shouldn’t America be happier?

Despite the many blessings of living in America, why aren’t more Americans happy? According to World Population Review, the 2021 World Happiness Report ranks America as the 19th happiest out of 146 countries.
Shouldn’t America be happier?

Energy conference to discuss fracking

The Permian Basin Water In Energy Conference will return Feb. 22-24, 2022. It promises another far-reaching and educational discussion of the role water plays in oil and gas production and the challenges associated with it. COVID-19 took away a year, but we are back and better than ever!

Jackson, Perez punch tickets to state XC meet

For the first time in their high school cross country careers, Fort Stockton sophomore Ali Jackson and junior Fabian Perez qualified for the state cross country meet. The duo showed tremendous improvement from a season ago to accomplish the feat on Oct.