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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Disclaimer: No pets die in this column ( but they sometimes smell like they did).