May 2026

Following the Memorial Day holiday, the Pecos County Commissioners Court is scheduled to convene for a regular session on Tuesday, May 26, 2026. The meeting will take place at 10:30 A.M.

For Fort Stockton High School, the connection between success in the classroom and success on the tennis court continues to grow stronger. One year after former Panther Tennis Coach Cody Aaron highlighted the remarkable trend of Fort Stockton tennis players earning the school’s top academic honors, the tradition continued once again in 2026 with Alexander “Xander” Gomez being named Fort Stockton High School Valedictorian.

Fort Stockton’s baseball program picked up several postseason honors this week as four Panthers were named to the District 3-4A All-District Team following the 2026 season. Leading the way was senior pitcher Gerry Diaz, who earned First Team All-District honors on the mound.

Fort Stockton senior sprinter Eduardo Hernandez closed out his high school track career on the biggest stage in Texas, competing at the UIL State Track and Field Meet in Austin on May 14-16 after qualifying in both the 100-meter and 200-meter dash events.

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.

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Dear Neil: I have a 3.5-acre piece of property, and this groundcover grows wild over a good portion of it. I have two areas, however, where I planted and maintain Palisades Zoysia around my front walk and pool. This plant is starting to invade the grass around the pool. Is there a way to get rid of it in that space without harming the grass?

Sharing his understanding of the dictates of Just War Theory for Christians who found themselves in the midst of one of our previous “War(s) on Terror,” the prominent evangelical apologist for “a generous orthodoxy,” Tony Campolo, considered John Calvin’s elaborations of the classic understanding established by Augustine in organizing the theory into six points or elements: 1) the justness of the cause of the conflict (reason for going to war); 2) the lawfulness (the enlisting of international allies in accord with international law) of the declaration of war; 3) the exhaustion of diplomacy before the declaration of war; 4) an expectation of universal blessings from success; 5) the practice of force proportionate to the desired outcome and 6) the outweighing of the damage/harm caused by the mere waging of war by the good accomplished through conflict (Red Letter Christians, Campolo, p. 58).

The Social Security Administration just released the most popular baby names for 2025, and they reveal an unfortunate trend. Girls’ names lean toward elegance and tradition — names our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had.

Early voting in both the Democratic and Republican runoff races ends Friday, May 22, with the election on Tuesday, May 26. On the GOP side, the statewide runoffs are: U.S.