July 2025

GARDENER’S MAILBAG Dear Neil, The ground beneath my Japanese ligustrum is becoming completely covered with tiny green sprouts. I assume they come from the seeds.

Fort Stockton Pioneer.

“Judaising Jesus: Rational Jewish Approach to Christianity” written by Juan Marcus Benjamin Gutierrez, Yaren Publishing, 2019. Throughout most of history the relationship between Judaism and Christianity has been one of conflict.

Recently my wife asked me if I would trim our rose bushes. I found the clippers in the garage. She stacked those cuttings in two neat piles in our backyard and yes it was a hot day.

In Far West Texas, water has never been something we take for granted. For farmers, ranchers, and families from Fort Stockton to Presidio, water scarcity is nothing new; it’s a way of life.

Is work-life balance dead, and will you even find time to attend the funeral?

Gov. Greg Abbott said late last week that the statewide death toll from the catastrophic flooding in the Hill Country stands at 135, and the number of persons missing has dropped to three.

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On Friday, July 25, representatives from Austin Bat Refuge in Austin, Texas, will be onsite at McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas, to release a Big Freetail bat back into the wild.

The Fort Stockton Chamber of Commerce Business Spotlight is on Mingo’s Burritos for June 2025. Mingo’s Burritos opened on September 1, 2010, and has been an active and supportive member of the Chamber since 2011.