September 2023

Marco Garcia threw for 146 yards and a touchdown to Gerry Diaz, Corbin Luna rushed 18 times for 127 yards and two touchdowns and Isiah Velasquez rushed for 72 yards and another score as the Fort Stockton Panthers overcame a slow start to down the visiting Alpine Bucks 27-7 last week at Panther Stadium.

Fort Stockton’s Volleyball program traveled to Odessa to take on the Odessa High School Lady Bronchos last Tuesday, with the varsity Prowlers falling to the Lady Bronchos in four sets, 20-25, 25-23, 15-25, and 24-26.

Fort Stockton Pioneer.

Dear Neil: I’ve had a few lantanas decline and die, and now the one on the left in my photo looks like it’s going. The one on the right looks fine.

I heard a story about a far west Texas ranch that consisted of over 38,000 acres and it only had one water well on the whole place. That 2,000 feet deep well was on top of a flat top mountain, and it had a pumpjack on it to pump water. The ranch hands listened for the motor that ran the pumpjack. If it stopped, they were on their way to fix it.

Luke 6:41 (NIV) “Why do you notice the little piece of dust that is in your brother’s eye, but you don’t see the big piece of wood that is in your own eye?” This scripture verse is one of the most studied and preached in all Christian churches. It drives home the lesson of hypocrisy.

Dear Editor, We once had Heroes like George, Thomas, and Adams. Then along came the others like Martin and John.

When America went to sleep on the night of Aug. 23 following the Republican presidential candidates’ debate, the Real Clear Politics polling averages put former president Donald Trump at 55 percent, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at 14 and the rest of the field between less than one percent to seven percent.

When I was five years old and my father worked for a subdivision developer, the Tyree family was giddily comparing floorplans for constructing a new house on a wooded lot next to our crowded domicile.

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