June 2024

LAUREN MACIAS El Paso – Two new safety rest areas in Culberson County will open to the public on Saturday, June 1. The facilities, located on I-10 both east and west, are nine miles from Van Horn and will replace current rest area locations four miles outside of Van Horn.

This summer, Treasure Island is coming to Fort Stockton. The Fort Stockton Community Theatre has announced that the Missoula Children’s Theatre (MCT) will be coming to town for the last week of June to hold auditions and rehearsals through the week for the musical production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ageless classic.

Last Wednesday, several veteran and VA programs as well as active military programs were prioritized when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Fiscal Year ‘25 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies funding bill.

The Fort Stockton Chamber of Commerce has organized a summer of live music for the community at Zero Stone Park, free to visitors due to the sponsorship of Big Bend Telephone. The March Divide, led by Dallas/ Fort Worth-based musician Jared Putnam, was the first concert to delight visitors on June 7.

The summer reading program opened on May 20, the theme this year is “Adventures Begin at Your Library”. The program kicked off on June 6 with the illusionist “Artist of the Impossible”. Children will receive a welcome packet and incentives during the program. Each child who completes the program will be eligible to attend the movie “Migration” at the movie theatre. The program is available to all children in Pecos County at no cost. Please come to the library to register and obtain details.

In late June 1850 three hundred and forty wagons, 1,800 mules, 500 cattle, numerous horses, oxen, and various other animals, numbering 4000, left Fort Inge on the Frio River where the road to Eagle Pass separated from the newly established road to El Paso. In addition, there were 450 civilians headed to the California gold fields and 175 soldiers. It was 585 miles to the next point of civilization, El Paso.

U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza of the Western District of Texas and the U.S. Attorney’s Office issued a statement recently about a Mexican national, formerly a Mexican police officer pleading guilty to trafficking methamphetamine into the United States.

My name is Tristian Barragan, and I am here to address the request for proposals for the management of the Fort Stockton Convention Center Theater. I stand before you today not to rehash the grievances surrounding the abrupt termination as managers of the Movie Theatre, but to reaffirm our dedication to this community and its well-being.

35 Texas counties eligible for individual disaster aid Residents in a total of 35 Texas counties now qualify for individual disaster assistance following a series of severe storms and flooding that began in late April, The Dallas Morning News reported. “I thank our federal partners and emergency response personnel across our great state who are working tirelessly to protect and support their fellow Texans,” Gov.

Disclaimer: No pets die in this column ( but they sometimes smell like they did). As I write, I’m trying to relax in my recliner on a cold winter’s day next to a roaring fire, yet my feet are freezing because a large, semielderly cat named “Missy” – AKA “The Loaf” – is lounging on the fireplace hearth directly in front of the firebox and hogging all of the heat.