May 2025

While most people were sleeping in on Saturday, nearly 70 fit and formidable runners showed up at Kokernot Field for the 10th annual Alpine Cowboys Home Run 5K and 10K to kick off the 2025 Pecos League baseball season. Like the Cowboys’ historic run last year, there was no real competition, except for those chasing their own personal records.

This is a very familiar term to airplane pilots. In any flight there is the takeoff, the trip or journey and with the airport in sight the final approach and finally the landing. For pilots, some flights can be a piece of cake with no mechanical or weather problems. On the other hand some flights can be troublesome, maybe with mechanical or weather problems or just long tiring trips. Many pilots give a sigh of relief after a long trip and say or think, “On the ground at last”.

As we have been appreciating Jesus’ appearances as the Risen Lord in the weeks following His Resurrection, a day long and still celebrated as Easter Sunday, we now come to the appearance explored in the last chapter of the Gospel according to John. While the chronology of this appearance within the fortyday Easter season does not comport well with Luke’s provision of an Ascension event in Jerusalem, it blends inspiringly with Matthew’s great commission and relives the miracle of a great fishing catch at the outset of Jesus’ ministry from the time He called the disciples.

Recently, my wife and I took one of our semi-grown daughters and her friend to the American Rodeo Championship Weekend at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. But we weren’t there to see the adult, full-contact petting zoo that is a championship rodeo.

CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS With the legislative session ending on Monday, June 2, lawmakers are scrambling to pass or kill bills, the Austin American-Statesman reported. Among the bills passed or likely to soon pass: • All handgun licenses issued in other states will be honored in Texas if, as expected, Gov.

The Sul Ross State University Library and Archives will host a screening of “Free for All: The Public Library” in a partnership with Basin PBS and the Granada Theatre on Thursday, June 5. The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6 p.m.

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Here’s what the Texas Transportation Commission discussed and approved at its May 2025 meeting. Former U.S.

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Fort Stockton Community Theatre has announced a full lineup of summer events, beginning with the opening of the gospel musical Sanders Family Christmas on Friday, May 30, at 7 p.m. The toe-tapping sequel to Smoke on the Mountain will feature performances by Randy and Jody Day, Michael and Sarah Shuttleworth, Michele Huckaby, and Marcos Mendoza III as the Sanders Family Singers.