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Although he was searching for deer, a hunter at the O2 Ranch (a privately owned ranch in Brewster and Presidio counties) found something very different and a little puzzling. Could it be a mammoth tusk? In West Texas? “I was skeptical when a deer hunter showed me a picture of what he thought was a fossil,” says O2 Ranch Manager Will Juett.

YOUR GUIDE TO LOCAL PLACES TO GO AND THINGS TO DO Your guide to local places to go and things to do! If you have an event for our Do Something! listing, please e-mail litzy.rodriguez@ fortstocktonpioneer. com MARCH13 Karaoke Night @ Joe’s Place 9 pm MARCH13 Pups On the Patio, 4 pm-8pm, Hodges Pavilion, Distemper/ Parvo Vaccination & Frontline Flea/ Tick Treatment MARCH14 Free Showing of “Twilight” @ West Texas Cinema- Fort Stockton Convention Center Theatre 6pm & 9 pm MARCH15 Painted Ponies Playday @ Pecos County Coliseum 8 am MARCH15 Free Showing of “The Batman” @ West Texas Cinema- Fort Stockton Convention Center Theatre 4 pm & 8pm MARCH16 Free Showing of “Despicable Me” @ West Texas Cinema-Fort Stockton Convention Center Theatre 4 pm & 8pm MARCH22 Trash-Off- Help Keep Our Community Clean! @ Fort Stockton Convention Center, 9am- 2pm.

Thanks to a partnership between the Fort Stockton Community Theatre and the Midland Festival Ballet, Fort Stockton residents can enjoy complimentary tickets to the closing production of “The Firebird.” The performances will take place on Saturday and Sunday, March 29 and 30, at the Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center in Midland. A limited number of 30 tickets per performance are available for Fort Stockton residents.

The Pecos County Senior Citizens Center will host a St. Patrick’s Day potluck dinner on Friday, March 14, at noon.

Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) has spearheaded a bipartisan effort to address the growing threat posed by the New World screwworm (NWS), a destructive pest that endangers the nation’s livestock, farming, and wildlife industries. In a letter signed by 43 colleagues, including members of the House Committee on Agriculture and the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Gonzales urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to expand eradication and containment efforts to prevent a potential outbreak that could cause significant economic losses.

JOH COVINGTON EDITOR On the outside of the new high school field house, the exterior masonry is already nearly complete. Photo by Joh Covington also in the Tumbleweed+ Student Broadcasting group to go behind the scenes of Fort Stockton ISD’s ongoing construction projects.

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This January, the Pecos County Memorial Hospital District celebrated its anniversary as an independent hospital district, after asking the community to take a leap of faith the previous year. As of January 2024, the hospital transitioned from under the Pecos County umbrella and into its current iteration, a change that in the last months has allowed the hospital to both stabilize and impressively advance to better serve the needs of the area.

Jeremy Hickman, Fort Stockton ISD’s Athletic Director and head football coach, has officially resigned from his position to accept a new role in Houston. Hickman has been named the Cypress Woods High School campus athletic coordinator and head football coach in the Cypress-Fairbanks ISD.

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