February 2022

Recently Texas passed the Safe Outdoor Dogs Act that enforces humane guidelines for restraining pet canines outdoors. Unfortunately for me, the act fails to impose similar guidelines for the treatment of grouchy husbands and embarrassing dads.

Getting a dinner reservation at Per Se, New York’s restaurant of choice for the city’s royalty, is more difficult than entering the U.S. illegally.

Toastmasters in Fort Stockton held their regular meeting on January 14. Karan Heffelfinger, left, won the Best Speaker; Oscar Gonzalez, middle, won the Best Table Topics Speaker; and Santa Acosta, right, won the Best Evaluator.

Fort Stockton Middle School robotics teams traveled to Greenwood on Jan 29. The three teams competed in the intermediate arena division in which two teams formed an alliance. Two of the Fort Stockton teams aligned with one another and secured the top positions in the tournament.

A large convoy of local first responder vehicles head south on Front Street as they take part in the funeral procession for former Fort Stockton Police Department Dispatcher Amy Baiza.

“I know how to fly,” proclaimed a traveler named Andrew, who was parked outside the Love’s Travel Stop on Feb. 1.

Romans 8: 22 (NIV) - “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” Have you ever listened to the groan of a large wooden ship as it gives way to the tide?

February 1969 issue: CHARIMAN’S CHOICE – Mrs. Frank Warren Jr., chairman of District Four, Permian Basin Girl Scout Council, was honored Monday with the first opportunity in Fort Stockton to buy her choice of the four varieties of Girl Scout cookies of which the council wide sale officially begins...

Dear Neil: My daughter’s backyard is halfway filled with bamboo, and it’s spreading. How can we get rid of it? I really don’t want to sound like I’m exaggerating, but no invader that we have in our landscapes is any more difficult to eliminate.

Fort Stockton High School hosted the TACS Regional Academic Challenge on Jan. 26. Fort Stockton students competed on four different teams. In Division II, Alexia Sanchez, Brooke Tucker, and Justin Gamboa placed first.