August 2025

The Fort Stockton Prowlers volleyball team began their 2025 season last week with a tough stretch of matches on the road, facing a pair of strong non-district opponents in Wink and Odessa. Despite flashes of competitive play and moments where momentum swung their way, the Prowlers came up short in both contests and continue to search for their first win of the new season.

Sul Ross State University named Dylan Dawson as Head Athletic Trainer at Sul Ross State in mid-June 2025. In addition, she will be the Senior Woman Administrator.

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In our journey through life, we often find ourselves in moments of desperation, searching for answers, comfort, or provision. It’s in these times that we may feel utterly alone, with nothing to offer those around us or even ourselves. But what if the key to unlocking abundance lies not in our own capabilities, but in recognizing our limitations and turning to the One who has everything we need?

“Hear that lonesome whippoorwill/ He sounds too blue to fly/ The midnight train is whining low…” – Hank Williams Among the books I mean to get around to reading is Neil Ansell’s “The Edge of Silence: In Search of the Disappearing Sounds of Nature.” Although Ansell’s book focuses on his gradual hearing loss and his globetrotting quest to experience endangered species in the wild, I suspect we can find applications closer to home. Just as sprawling city lights have rendered most of us incapable of doing the sort of stargazing our ancestors took for granted (“I think I see part of Orion’s Belt… it’s getting closer…wait, did the Greeks have any myths about Orion delivering packages for Amazon?”), an unrelenting barrage of ambulance sirens, beeping car horns, diesel engines and jackhammers separates us from the once-familiar sounds of nature.

With a quorum-breaking number of House Democrats still out of state, House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, gaveled the first special session to an end Friday. Gov. Greg Abbott immediately called a second special session that has already convened.

Dear Editor, My name is Travis Dimler - I live and work on a ranch in the Glass Mountains in northern Brewster County. AEP/CPS is planning to build a 765 KV electrical transmission line (as large as they get in TX) going from San Antonio to the substation where Hovey Road meets IH-10.

On Friday, Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) joined United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary, Brooke Rollins, and Governor Greg Abbott (R-Texas) in Austin to announce the USDA’s commitment to fund and build a domestic sterile fly production facility to enhance New World screwworm (NWS) containment and eradication efforts.

The Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District (MPGCD) board has approved its budget and taken steps to adopt its tax rate for the upcoming fiscal year, following a public hearing where no input was received from the community.

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