October 2021

Fort Stockton High School band members, football players and cheerleaders put on a pep rally for residents at Focused Care at Fort Stockton on Oct. 14. The cheerleaders led a variety of cheers and the band played the school fight song along with many other tunes for the residents. Football players handed out mini Panther cheering megaphones as the pep rally concluded. Photos by Nathan Heuer

The Fort Stockton Independent School District may provide an affordable living option to new professional staff in the near future. And potentially current staff as well.

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Logan Hardee, middle, was named the Alamo Student of the Month for September at Monday’s school board meeting. Hardee was presented the award by principal Sabrina Cordova.

The Pumpkin Patch 5K was held in Coyanosa on Oct. 16 and 54 runners participated in the event. Mariana Sanchez of Imperial was the overall female champion of the event, finishing in 19 minutes 44 seconds. Guillermo Rodriguez was the overall male champion, crossing the fine line in 20:46. Also pictured is the top two finishers from Fort Stockton, Saul Leyva and Kessia Ledesma. Leyva won the 20-29 years-old male division and Ledesma placed first in the 30-39 years-old female division. Courtesy Photos

John Tiemann won the Big Bend Open Road Race 2.0 85 MPH classification on Oct. 16. Pictured with Tiemann is Miss Fort Stockton Gabrielle Renteria, left, and Junior Miss Fort Stockton Carolina Sauceda, right. Courtesy photos of Collette Barragan

Dear Neil: I have a gray cotoneaster planting that I noticed is just covered with insects. They’re tiny, and I don’t see any particular damage.

Comanche Springs Florist, Bobbye Shannon’s new Fort Stockton business, was officially opened with a ribbon cutting by the Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors at the firm’s 507 N. Main St. location. The owner and members of their family were joined by numerous friends during opening day. Included in the photo in the front row are (l-r) Becky Nell Young, one of Mrs. Shannon’s daughters, holding her baby son, John Young; Mrs. R.L Walker, mother of the owner; Mrs. Shannon, her sister; Becky Walker; her daughter, Mary Kay Shannon; a longtime friend of the family, Larry Bass; and Miss Fort Stockton, Connie Riggs.

Sul Ross State University men’s and women’s soccer teams, in conjunction with the Big Bend Youth Soccer Association, will host weekly skills clinics on Sundays for the local soccer community. The clinics are led by head men’s soccer coach Jon Evan, head women’s soccer coach John Dominguez, and graduate assistant Lorenzo Segura.

am sure that all of us at some point in life have felt anger and rage towards something or someone. Think about when you are driving on the highway and the other car does not use its blinkers when turning to the other side. That really makes us angry! However, at a more collective level, there are social issues that have made people angry for so long, like with racism and discrimination, just to give a few examples. That as well has made several people angry. Hence, if anger is part of the human experience, how do we deal with it? I