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NEW BOOKS FOR THE WEEK: Love Can’t Feed You by Cherry Lou Sy Shred Sisters by Betsy Lerner Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors This Cursed House by Del Sandeen The Colony Club by Shelley Noble What Does It Feel Like? By Sophie Kinsella Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show by Bethany Joy Lenz The President’s Lawyer by Lawrence S. Robbins Playground by Richard Powers The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts by Louis Bayard The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by Camille Peri Fort Stockton Public Library 500 N Water St Fort Stockton, TX 79735 (432) 336-3374 .

The Fort Stockton Public Library hosted their annual quilting show last week, which ran from Oct 21 to Nov 1. This year, Wanda McGovern won the honor as her work was voted “Best of Show.” According to the library, McGovern began sewing at age 14 and was greatly influenced by her aunt who also made beautiful items.

The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University celebrated what would have been Stevie Ray Vaughan’s 70th birthday with a special screening of “Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Brothers in Blues”, a documentary by filmmaker and Fort Stockton local, Kirby Warnock.

The Boquillas Port of Entry within Big Bend National Park, providing access to the town of Boquillas, Coahuila, Mexico, as well as the Mexican Protected Areas of Maderas del Carmen and Ocampo, will change to the winter schedule beginning Monday, November 4.

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The Fort Stockton Independant School District met for its regular school board meeting on Monday evening, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m.

One of the neatest things the founders and crafters of our county did was design our government to be for and by the people. That means we have a say in who our leaders will be. Very shortly we will be faced again with the decision of which candidates or party to vote for. We should not vote for someone just because of their popularity, financial status, good looks or race. Christians should carefully pray and even fast for God’s will to be done, (Philippians 4:6&7, 1 Peter 3:12). Also, God would raise up good leaders and give us insight into which one we should vote for, (Acts 13:2&3, 14:23, Luke 6:12&13). A question we could ask is who will or most likely protect or support Christian values? We do not want the government in the Church or the Church in the government. But we do need freedom of religion. That does not mean it will be forced on others, but we have the freedom to worship the God of our choice or to have no God at all. I cannot wait to vote not because of the candidates but because it is our privilege and freedom that our forefathers fought and died for. I would encourage all to go vote! Remember Christians are to pray for our leaders whether we approve of them or not, (1 Timothy 2:1-3).

Each year TDCJ Fort Stockton Unit participates in the State Employees Charitable Campaign where they host multiple fundraisers such as food sales and silent auctions with items donated by local businesses and staff.

A TexTreasures grant from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) will help to digitize the entire Harry Warren Papers collection beginning this fall at the Archives of the Big Bend at Sul Ross State University in Alpine. The collection is expected to be freely available to the public by Fall 2025. The Harry Warren Papers consist of journals, correspondence, scrapbooks, biographical and historical materials, financial records, literary manuscripts, and published monographs by Warren (1859-1931), a historian, author, teacher, farmer, customs official and attorney. Warren took extensive notes of his travels, documented major events, and collected several first-hand accounts from people in our region who were traditionally silenced or ignored, including Mexicans, Mexican Americans and Native Americans. His journals (1891-1926) include accounts of several Texas borderland raids during the Mexican Revolution, as well as the only known contemporary account of the Porvenir Massacre. As such, they are consistently used and cited by researchers and students of Texas history, Mexican American history, borderland history and military history throughout the state and region. Interest in said journals has significantly increased since the 2022 archaeological excavation of the Porvenir Massacre site, which found U.S. Army ammunition fired from military-issued weapons alongside the Texas Ranger and civilian ammunition. The Warren collection is now one of the Archives’ most requested and widely used manuscript collections. While some of these requests have been from Sul Ross students and area researchers, most are from visitors, journalists and researchers from outside of West Texas, with some requests coming from as far as the United Kingdom. The primary purpose for this digitization project is to improve accessibility to Harry Warren’s journals for researchers.