The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public comments on a draft revised recovery plan for the Mexican long-nosed bat, an endangered migratory bat that travels annually between Mexico and the Southwestern United States to follow the blooming period of flowering agaves and cacti.
Lawmakers returned to Austin on Tuesday just one day after the state's chief financial officer unveiled his most optimistic revenue estimate to date. This key number sets a limit on how much budget writers can spend on state services as outlays cannot exceed revenue.
This session's is the biggest ever. State Comptroller Glen Hegar increased his July estimate upwards by billions, projecting $32 billion left in the state treasury when the current biennium ends in September.
Fort Stockton Community Theatre is looking for two actors who want to continue their acting career or who wish to start one on The Nelson Street Theatre stage.
Two male characters, preferably between the ages of 30-70, are needed to complete the cast of “Honky Tonk Hissy Fit” written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten and directed by Alice Duerksen, to be performed May 12-17.
State Senator César J. Blanco took his Oath of Office for his second term representing District 29 in the Texas Senate on Jan. 10, the opening day of the 88th Texas Legislature.
Senate District 29 is made up of Brewster (partially), Culberson, El Paso, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio, and Reeves counties.
Senate District 29 includes both rural and urban communities, as well as more than 350 miles of the Texas-Mexico Border.
Today’s children and adolescents deal with an array of psychological and emotional stresses that keep them from learning, developing, and achieving at their full potential. The issues are not all dealing with COVID or the effects of social isolation or the learning loss that our children are experiencing.
COVID did not start the rise in our youth needing additional psychological and emotional support, but it did make the problems worse.
The Fort Stockton City Council, at its Jan. 9, 2023 meeting, passed an ordinance that will now allow more bodies to be buried per individual grave, or plot, at East Hill Cemetery. Ordinance 23-100 amends Chapter 7 of the Code of Ordinances, Article III, East Hill Cemetery, to allow for two bodies, or four cremains, to be buried at each plot.
“You have to get consent of all the owners of each plot,” said city attorney Puja Boinpally.
With a mutual aid agreement now in place between Pecos and Terrell Counties to assist with the influx of illegal migrants crossing into Terrell County, Pecos County took defense of the border a step further at the Jan. 9 county commissioner’s meeting.
The court approved the purchase of a K-9 narcotics officer that will be used on patrols in both counties as part of the mutual aid agreement.
