April 2023

Economic development incentives are a way to encourage quality development, and the Texas PACE – Property Assessed Clean Energy program – is a financial tool to encourage property owners to upgrade facility infrastructure with little or no capital outlay.

The 2023 Comanche Springs Rodeo was a huge success, with over 3,000 people attending over three days, cheering on the cowboys and cowgirls as they competed in various events, including bull riding, bronc riding, steer wrestling, and barrel racing.

The free 32nd Annual Alpine Gem and Mineral Show returns April 14-16 at the Alpine Civic Center. The show will run from 9 a.m.

YOUR GUIDE TO LOCAL PLACES TO GO AND THINGS TO DO If you have an event for our Do Something! listing, please e-mail nathan. heuer@fortstocktonpioneer.com.

As Kevin Costner once said in the 1989 film Field of Dreams, “if you build it, they will come.” Fort Stockton ISD School Board President Billy Espino iterated those words in reference to the possibility of a basketball pavilion being built at the middle school campus.

GUEST COLUMNIST Right now, the land echoes with songs such as “Power in the Blood” and “Because He Lives,” but past performance assures me that the ditty waiting in the wings is (apologies to Alice Cooper) “God’s Out For Summer.”

GUEST COLUMNIST Controversy surrounding the fabled Border Patrol “whipping” at Del Rio, Texas, continues to swirl eight months after an exhaustive government investigation concluded that no agents struck any migrants.