December 2021

December 1995 issue: Intermediate students reap rewards – These students at Fort Stockton Intermediate School were honored for academic achievement in high grade point averages or perfect attendance. Kneeling, left to right: Jackie Velasquez, Erika Munoz, Alicia Shuffield, Jessica Ruiz, Brittany Bollier, Mirella Cantu. Second row: Ogden Lujan, Leonardo Pena, Carlos Ramirez, Leopoldo Lujan, Carlos Snyder, Elaine Montoya. Back row: John Rey, Juan Jose Sanchez, Ashley Gonzales, Erica Arcides, Houston Bassham, Bianca Corral.

The weeks leading up to Christmas are so busy. You want to bake a variety of Christmas cookies and goodies, but where do you find the time? The answer may be in organizing a small Christmas cookie exchange.

There has been a lot on the news in the past several months concerning both the Texas abortion law as well as Roe v Wade. I am not going to get in an argument of the merits of either one of these laws, but I am going to testify to you today concerning the fact that a fetus in the womb is a human being at the earliest of stages of pregnancy.

Most often, a Fort Stockton resident can distinguish a traveler passing through town. This past Monday it was easy for locals to identify a group of foreigners as they were spotted dancing in the Stripes parking lot off Dickinson Boulevard.

Fort Stockton Community Theatre invites adults (high school age and older) to participate in a storytelling workshop conducted by Sue Roseberry on Saturday, Jan. 22.

Fort Stockton Community Theatre received an early Christmas present again this year. The theatre group won top of its category in the City Bank Community Rewards Program for the second year in a row and will receive $4,000.

Christmas card trends are telling — they speak to the mood of the country — and this year’s trend offers some positive news. According to the Washington Post, hand-written “snailmailed” Christmas cards are all the rage, particularly among millennials who all of the sudden are spending more on Christmas cards than baby boomers.

Children all over the U.S. are currently wringing their iPhone-calloused hands over the possibility that Santa Claus might not make it this year because he’s trapped in a delayed shipping container somewhere off the coast of California.

Claudette Kerr, 80, of Fort Stockton, Texas, passed away Dec. 11, 2021.

The Fort Stockton junior varsity team headed to Coahoma on Monday looking for redemption and the Prowlers found just that in a dominant 39-13 victory. Fort Stockton capitalized on their 21 steals – a number five greater than their turnover total in the contest (16).