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.” This is one of those verses from Paul that we sometimes like to skip over because it requires us to think a little bit. To put this verse in context, Paul is talking about the children of Israel in the desert not long after they passed through the Red Sea. The people are in need of water, and they are still questioning whether God will provide for them which seems to be an ongoing theme, despite all the miracles that they have been privy to. How can they walk through the Red Sea with walls of water on both sides that close after they pass, swallowing up the Egyptian army? But they still have their doubts. Their survivalist instincts kick in and now that the imminent danger of the Egyptian soldiers has been dealt with, they are getting back to the basics. Where in this desert wilderness where are they going to get food and water? Why has God brought them all this way just to watch them die of thirst and starvation? Better a slave in Egypt rather than a corpse in the desert. And we all know that God provided mana for them to eat, and Moses struck a rock which started gushing water. How strange it is that even with all their needs provided, they still find reason to complain.

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. Locally, 514 Pecos County residents voted to keep Gonzales (263 votes) to Herreras’ (254 votes). All votes are unofficial until canvased.

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. They root easily and they’ll have ample time to develop good roots in their 4-inch pots, then become established out in the beds before fall.