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The Fort Stockton Chamber of Commerce has organized a summer of live music for the community at Zero Stone Park, free to visitors due to the sponsorship of Big Bend Telephone.

The summer reading program opened on May 20, the theme this year is “Adventures Begin at Your Library”. The program kicked off on June 6 with the illusionist “Artist of the Impossible”. Children will receive a welcome packet and incentives during the program.

In late June 1850 three hundred and forty wagons, 1,800 mules, 500 cattle, numerous horses, oxen, and various other animals, numbering 4000, left Fort Inge on the Frio River where the road to Eagle Pass separated from the newly established road to El Paso.

U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza of the Western District of Texas and the U.S. Attorney’s Office issued a statement recently about a Mexican national, formerly a Mexican police officer pleading guilty to trafficking methamphetamine into the United States.

Biological dads are getting scarce today as marriage seemstobeontheway out, just as living together is becoming the norm.

I was reading the other day about death and resurrection of our Christ. What grabbed my attention was during that week he came upon a fig tree.

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Dear Neil: My beautiful Yoshino cherry tree has a gummy or jellylike sap oozing from its trunk. The tree is about 5 years old. I’ve also noticed little sprouts emerging from its exposed roots. Is this some type of canker? What is wrong with my cherry tree?

HEAD OVER MEALS Have you ever baked or cooked a meal or dessert that didn’t look like the photo that may have been associated with the recipe?

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