May 2024

The Fort Stockton City Council met on Tuesday, May 28, at 121 West Second Street for their regularly scheduled meeting. Mayor Paul Casias and Councilman RJ Bernal arrived at the meeting after it started, so Mayor Pro-tem James Warnock commenced the meeting at 5:30 p.m.

Alley Oop, the historic, iconic, and popular cartoon created by V.T. Hamlin in 1932, will celebrate another anniversary with the Alley Oop Days festival.

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1 Corinthians 10:3-4 “They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.”

At the recent May 23 Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting, commissioners unanimously voted to ban the canned hunting of mountain lions and to require that live mountain lions not be held in traps for longer than 36 hours.

Incumbent Tony Gonzales, U.S. House, District 23 has again prevailed over republican challenger Brandon Herrara. In a spirited highly advertised run-off election, Gonzales garnered a 15,023 (50.07%) to Herreras’ 14,616 (49.3%), according to the Associated Press with 98.99% of the votes totaled.

Editor’s note: It is important to note that an arrest should not be considered evidence of guilt, all defendants are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The following list is provided by the Pecos County Sheriff’s Department.

GARDENER’S MAILBAG Dear Neil: How is purpleheart propagated? I would normally use cuttings for its sisters, the wandering Jews, but since it’s a perennial, should I dig and divide it? Use cuttings, especially since they’re so widely available at this time of year.