October 2025

Several Fort Stockton 4-H and FFA students showcased their hard work and dedication this past weekend, earning impressive placings at the highly competitive State Fair of Texas in Dallas.

Residents of Fort Stockton and Pecos County are alerted to a series of important governmental meetings scheduled over the next two weeks, beginning with a full day of municipal and county business on October 14.

In the October 2 paper, Volume 117, No. 41, Aileen Garcia and Mrs.

Landowners across West Texas are invited to attend a one-day workshop in Alpine on Nov. 13, 2025, from 9:00 a.m.4:00 p.m., designed to help them navigate a rapidly changing landscape of land use opportunities.

The same plaintiffs who are challenging the state’s 2021 congressional map are asking a panel of three federal judges to block using the new GOP-approved districts from being used in the March midterms.

Goldman Sachs predicts artificial intelligence may displace up to 300 million jobs by 2027. Of course, I acquired that information from AI, so I have no idea if it’s true or if AI is just trying to bully me into making friends with it so it won’t render me as obsolete at work as I am at home.

Years ago, I had a few pigs, and they loved mud. The dirtier and smellier that mud hole was the better they liked it. I would move them to a clean pen; wash them off with clean fresh water but the first chance they got, right back into the mud.

“100 Ways God Speaks to You” was written by Robert A. Avila. No publisher or publication date given. In the preface the author states: “This book relates the many works our Heavenly Father performed to teach me to hear his voice, to trust Him, and to obey Him.

As we grow into the New Life offered by Lord Jesus, we are helped and guided by The Word of God and the Holy Spirit to become servants and vessels in the cause of God's Kingdom. To that end God has a calling and a purpose for each of us. The choice to respond is ours.

The Fort Stockton High School Blue Wave Swim Team kicked off their 2025–2026 season with a strong showing at the UTPB Invitational, hosted by Odessa High on October 4.