January 2024

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The Fort Stockton City Council Amended a portion of a wrecker service ordinance at its Jan. 8, 2024 meeting – more specifically Chapter 25 of the ordinance regarding wrecker service rotation lists.

LEFT: Alexis Baquedano, left pins a medal on her best friend April Torres’s uniform Jan. 4 in Fort Stockton during her Marine promotion ceremony in front of the mural at the laundromat at 1500 West Dickinson. Torres, a 2017 Fort Stockton graduate, was promoted to Marine Staff Sergeant.

The Hodges family has a long, storied history in Fort Stockton, and the city council has taken steps to ensure the name lives on. The city created the Hodges Pavilion adjacent to the Fort Stockton Convention Center in 2023 in honor of Delmon Hodges, and at Monday’s council meeting, renamed a portion of West 17th Street from the I-10 access road to Marshall Street between Candlewood Suites and Hampton Inn Hodges Parkway in honor of Hodges.

The Pecos County Commissioner’s Court raced through a 26-item agenda in 45 minutes, Monday morning, approving a contract for aerial hunting/game management through the USDA Wildlife services. The court approved the bid submitted by Concho Aviation at its Dec. 11, 2023 meeting, and the contract is valid for two years, ending Dec. 31, 2025. Precinct 1 Commissioner Tom Chapman had asked for the contract to be for two years, and it was listed as just one year on the contract, and the motion was made to amend contract for two years.

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