Pecos to host Rodeo’s stars
Being home to the “World’s First Rodeo” offers a sense of pride to thousands of folks in West Texas. It’s their ancestry, their legacy.
June 2024
Historic Fort Stockton introduces Forts and Frontier Day
On June 18, the Fort Stockton historic site is opening its doors for the first “Forts and Frontiers Day,” welcoming a limited number of kids from the ages of 9-17 to participate.
DO SOMETHING!
Your guide to local places to go and things to do! If you have an event for our Do Something! listing, please e-mail litzy.rodriguez@fortstocktonpioneer. com JUNE 6 Fort Stockton Public Library Summer Reading Program, The Magic Show with Bronson Chadwick, 6p.m.
PCMHD hosts Vaccine Clinic for Students
Starting next week, on Friday June 14, the Pecos County Memorial Hospital District is hosting a vaccine clinic out of the Family Care Center Clinic on the second floor of the hospital, 387 West I-10.
Fiddler’s Green – The Tourist Gaze
There is a concept in physics known as the Heisenberg, or Uncertainty, Principle. This ideawasconceivedbytheGerman physicistWernerHeisenberg who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927.
Phelan wins re-election bid, seeks speaker post again
House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, narrowly won re-election in a hotly contested runoff race and has vowed to seek his third term as speaker, drawing threats from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to oppose any of his supporters in the 2024 primary.
Letter from the Editor
“Good morning, Fort Stockton,” That is similar to how I started the 1,125, give or take, emails that I sent off this week introducing myself digitally to the people serving the city, county, schools, and local businesses, letting them know to divert their agendas and calendars my way.
The Year of the Possum
According to my extensive research (approximately five minutes on Google when I should have been folding underwear), the Chinese zodiac system assigns an animal symbol to each year. It is believed that people born in a given year have the personality of that year’s animal.
From the Pulpit
I am not a mother; I have had the taste of knowing pregnancy, but it was short lived. Although I have a friend whose story I will tell you about. She was young woman who learned she was pregnant and it was amazing!
The Little Donut Shop
The small building was on the main street and had been abandoned for years. One day as I passed by, I noticed an old man painting the building. Later, it had windows, a door and a sign that said, “Donut Shop “. On my next trip to that town, I decided to stop in and see what was going on.
