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Long Fellow Road will soon see improvements after the Pecos County Commissioner’s Court voted to add it to the Pecos County CTIF Grant Project List. CTIF – County Transportation Infrastructure Fund – granted Pecos County a little more than $5 million, “So that we can improve more roads than what the county can afford,” said County Judge Joe Shuster. “To keep them up to date either by caliche or by pavement. This is all done by legislature, so we’re thinking that they’re probably going to offer that to us in the next legislature, too.”

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 shawn.yorks@fortstocktonpioneer.com. FEBRUARY 15-17 Fort Stockton Prowlers junior varsity softball at Pecos Tournament FEBRUARY 16 Daddy-Daughter Dance will be presented by 4-H, from 6-8 p.m.

The Pecos County Senior Citizens Center will host a potluck on Friday, Feb. 16, at Noon. The meal will be grilled hamburgers with potato salad. Everyone is asked to bring side dishes or desserts. The hamburger potluck is open to all Senior Center members and will be a great way to celebrate President’s Day weekend. The Senior Citizens Center is located at 1010 W. 14th Street and is open to all Pecos County residents 55 and older, but you may join by paying annual dues of only $5. For more information, contact the Pecos County Senior Citizens Center at (432) 336-2302 or by email at pcscc04282014@yahoo.com

With early voting for the March 5 primary beginning Feb. 20, the Fort Stockton Pioneer began sending surveys to Pecos County candidates for office in early February.

It is important to note that an arrest should not be considered as evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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The Fort Stockton Independent School District’s Agricultural Sciences Ag Barn discussion will make its way to Fort Stockton City Hall Thursday night when FSISD Superintendent Dr. Gabriel Zamora will make a presentation to the Fort Stockton City Council on the proposed location of the new ag barn the district plans to build. The school board decided in January that it wanted to build the new facility on school property adjacent to Fort Stockton High School, but that would require variances from the city because of livestock located within city limits.

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The Fort Stockton Intergovernmental Recreation Board met in a special session Feb. 8 and upheld the suspension of a recreation league youth basketball coach after a Feb. 3 incident in which the coach, Colby Terrazas, pulled his team off the court and quit the game at the start of the fourth quarter. His team, the Division 2 Spurs, was behind 29-6 to a team from Imperial in a game held at the Fort Stockton Middle School White gym, and Terrazas believed the referees were not calling the game fairly.

A 32-year-old Waco man was killed Feb. 6 when he was struck by a semi after fleeing from Pecos County Deputies. Mark Anthony Lopez Jr., 32, of Waco, was driving a 2011 Jeep Liberty and was pulled over by a Pecos County Sheriff’s Deputy on Interstate 10 near Sheffield for a routine traffic violation.