June 2022

Traveling and familiarity will be the themes of the Fort Stockton High School football schedule this upcoming season despite a shift from 4A Division 1 to 4A Division 2.

As I sit here in my uneasy chair, I can hear the screams and guffaws of what sound like about 500 teenagers in my backyard swimming pool for my middle daughter’s high school graduation party, and I wonder if a sufficient supply of chlorine shock treatments exists for that water ever to recover.

As Democrats’ prospects in the 2022 mid-term elections dim, the party needs to revive itself with what was once a reliable constituency – Hispanic voters. A Wall Street Journal poll taken in December found Hispanic voters split 37% to 37% “if the election were held today.”

“As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” James 2:26 (NIV) Both NPR News and the Washington Post reported last week there have been over 240 mass shootings in 2020. Many of these we never heard about.

Fort Stockton First United Methodist Church celebrated their four local Susan Nall Memorial Scholarship recipients on June 5.

If you have an event for our Do Something! listing, please e-mail nathan. heuer fortstocktonpioneer.com.

Tuesday’s triple digit weather led many travelers to pull in for a cold drink or to let their engines cool. In the company of many vehicles was a hybrid between a school bus and an RV that stopped in town for a rest.

The new walking trail at Gene Cummings Park in Fort Stockton has been poured and completed over the course of the past six weeks after the park’s improvement project groundbreaking ceremony was held on April 25. The approximately $60,000 trail is of four additions that will be completed at the park.