December 2024

Families across Pecos County have a new reason to celebrate this holiday season. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, an internationally recognized literacy program that has provided millions of free children’s books across the globe, officially launched in the region on Thursday.

Sanderson - On the crisp SaturdaymorningofNovember 23, participants arrived early at the Sanderson gun range, ready for a day filled withfunandcompetition. Withtheeventsettobegin at 11:00 a.m., shooters were on-site bright and early to help prepare.

YOUR GUIDE TO LOCAL PLACES TO GO AND THINGS TO DO 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 NOV 21-JAN 1 Fort Stockton Movies Schedule- The Noel Diary, Good Sam, Secret Dare to Dream, Christmas Chronicles, A Merry Scottish Christmas, A Boy Called Christmas, Jingle Jangle, A Christmas Journey, Journey to Bethlehem DECEMBER The Grey Mule- Holiday Ornament Decorating, Every Tuesday in December! Dec.10: Cork Angels Dec 17: Cork Snowman, 6:30- 9:30 p.m.

Sanderson – Ferguson Motor’s Ford House Social is set to celebrate its 3-Year anniversary and grand re-opening tomorrow with live music, food specials and more. A story of triumph after the destruction the local hangout endured during the horrific tornado that hit the small town in June.

New Books for the week: Christmas with the Queen by Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb I Think I Was Murdered by Colleen Coble, Rick Acker The Queen’s Cook by Tessa Afshar Dancing With Diana: A Memoir by Anne Allan by Anne Allan Where They Last Saw Her by Marcie R. Rendon Drop Dead Sisters by Amelia Diane Coombs The Party Line by Carolyn Brown The Secret War of Julia Child by Diana R. Chambers A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison The Banned Books Club by Brenda Novak A Pair of Wings by Carole Hopson A Reason to See You Again by Jami Attenberg Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham Red River Road by Anna Downes

This fall, The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Astronomy welcomed the inaugural class of postdoctoral fellows to its Cosmic Frontier Center. The Frontier Fellows will support the center, which launched earlier this year, in its mission to uncover the origins of galaxies in the universe through a combination of theoretical and observational astrophysics.

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House Speaker Dade Phelan withdrew last week from seeking another term leading that chamber. After three rounds of voting on Saturday, state Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield emerged as the preference of most House Republicans. However, his opponent, state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, claims to have enough support from both Republicans and Democrats to clear the 76-vote threshold.

It’s that time of year (while I’m still digesting Thanksgiving giblets and deviled eggs), that I unveil my yearly Christmas list of things that I really don’t want, but will probably get, anyway. Receiving what you don’t want for Christmas is traditional for fathers like me.

JOE BIDEN ANDREW S. MURR TEXAS REP.