July 2025

Mexican Consulate from Del Rio will be at the Fort Stockton Public Library on Saturday July 19. The Consulate will provide assistance with passport issues, civil registration and Visa certification and obtaining birth and death certificates. Appointments can be made by calling 1-830775-2352. The consulate will be making one visit in 2025.

In a groundbreaking initiative to address rural health care challenges, Texas A&M University Health Science Center and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center unveiled a new health clinic housed in a retrofitted 40-foot shipping container during a dedication ceremony Friday in Fort Davis.

Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts Brooke Shields is not allowed to get old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman by Brooke Shields Backwater Justice by Fern Michaels The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb Silver Leaf Rapids by Jodi Thomas Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister Going Home in the Dark by Dean Koontz We Might Just make it After All by Elyce Arons

Questioning PCMH: I go to the source. I didn’t get answers, got dismissed, I am still going to use my voice.

Search teams have recovered 103 bodies in Kerr County after the devastating July 4 floods along the Guadalupe River, with Gov. Greg Abbott saying at least 161 people were still unaccounted for.

“In a great big land of freedom, at a time we really need ‘em/They don’t make ‘em like my daddy anymore.” – Loretta Lynn With the 100th anniversary of my late father’s birth now in the rearview mirror, I find myself wondering if “the Greatest Generation” (the demographic group born 1901-1927) truly has to be a one-off convergence of skills, virtue and vision. True, the generation that survived the Great Depression, won World War II, built a booming postwar economy and (for good or ill) handed the baton to the Baby Boomers is a hard act to follow, but is it an impossible act to follow? I realize it looks impossible when you encounter umpteen youngsters waddling around with a soft drink refill taller than themselves.

Over the years I have visited and worked with the youth in prison. I have talked to, prayed with but also tried to help them with their relationship to the Living Holy God.

Fort Stockton Pioneer.

GARDENER’S MAILBAG Dear Neil, My daughter’s bottlebrush tree has not bloomed since that bad cold spell four years ago. It is growing well.

Editor's note: It is important to note that an arrest should not be considered evidence of guilt, all defendants are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The following list is provided by the Pecos County Sheriff's Department.