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.

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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.

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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.

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.