February 2024

The ongoing saga of a new Agricultural Sciences “Ag Barn” facility for Fort Stockton High School made its way to city hall last Thursday, as those for and against a new facility filled the council chambers for the regularly scheduled city council meeting. The item was listed under “Presentations” on the agenda, which means the item was not up for a vote by the council.

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The new 2024 Miss Rodeo USA is Kaelanne Quinonez, now 26. She started her rodeo queen journey as Miss Santa Maria Elks Rodeo 2020 and took the title Miss Rodeo Comanche Springs 2023 to go on to the Miss Rodeo USA 2024 pageant.

Long Fellow Road will soon see improvements after the Pecos County Commissioner’s Court voted to add it to the Pecos County CTIF Grant Project List. CTIF – County Transportation Infrastructure Fund – granted Pecos County a little more than $5 million, “So that we can improve more roads than what the county can afford,” said County Judge Joe Shuster. “To keep them up to date either by caliche or by pavement. This is all done by legislature, so we’re thinking that they’re probably going to offer that to us in the next legislature, too.”

YOUR GUIDE TO LOCAL PLACES TO GO AND THINGS TO DO Your guide to local places to go and things to do! If you have an event for our Do Something! listing, please e-mail shawn.yorks@fortstocktonpioneer.com. FEBRUARY 15-17 Fort Stockton Prowlers junior varsity softball at Pecos Tournament FEBRUARY 16 Daddy-Daughter Dance will be presented by 4-H, from 6-8 p.m.

The Pecos County Senior Citizens Center will host a potluck on Friday, Feb. 16, at Noon. The meal will be grilled hamburgers with potato salad. Everyone is asked to bring side dishes or desserts. The hamburger potluck is open to all Senior Center members and will be a great way to celebrate President’s Day weekend. The Senior Citizens Center is located at 1010 W. 14th Street and is open to all Pecos County residents 55 and older, but you may join by paying annual dues of only $5. For more information, contact the Pecos County Senior Citizens Center at (432) 336-2302 or by email at pcscc04282014@yahoo.com

Acouple of days ago, I retrieved one (of about a hundred) of our family doglets’ chew bones from the seemingly unreachable chasm under my youngest and quietest daughter’s bed using an ingenious invention of my own making – namely a straightened-out wire clothes hanger.

Lt. Gov Dan Patrick joined with the world’s largest investment firm to pitch investors on building natural gas power plants in Texas at a summit held last week in Houston.