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Fort Stockton will soon have another shopping option as the Fort Stockton Economic Development Corporation Executive Director announced in January that Dollar General is looking to expand in Fort Stockton.  

“They’re expanding to a new location,” said EDC Director Remie Ramos, adding that the company has not given him a time frame for when the new store will be built. 

The current Dollar General isn’t going anywhere, as it recently renewed its lease on the current building at Dickinson Boulevard and Oklahoma Street. 

Residents in Central and Northeast Texas are still cleaning up after a winter storm last week snapped power lines and tree limbs, causing widespread power outages, canceled flights and damage to homes and vehicles.

At its peak, nearly 400,000 Texas households were without power, according to poweroutage.us. As of Sunday, that number had dropped to 62,456.

Two years after a fire destroyed the KFC and Taco Bell, the Fort Stockton Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for the new KFC, Friday morning, Feb. 3. The restaurant officially reopened on Feb. 2. The new Taco Bell next door opened a few weeks ago.

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Jan. 24

Telling members of the Senate Finance committee that they will likely never again see a session with the state as flush with cash as it is now, state Comptroller Glenn Hegar said lawmakers must decide how to carefully shepherd the state's record-breaking income. The Finance committee began budget hearings on Monday, opening with a presentation from the state's chief financial officer, who echoed comments he made earlier in the month when he laid out his forecast for state revenue over the next biennium.

A group of House Democrats is proposing a $15,000 raise for the state’s teachers and a 25% raise for other state employees by using some of the state’s record budget surplus. State Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, announced the bill last week and was joined by Democratic legislators and teachers, the Austin American-Statesman reported.