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Dear Neil: My Gold Star esperanzas may have frozen this past winter. I have yet to see any green growth. I cut the tops back to the ground and still have them mulched in pecan leaves. Should I give up on them?

Grand champion Danny Luera (Inhognito) with Miss Fort Stockton Katie Salmon. Photos by Nathan Heuer Steak first place Joshua Simons (Placebo Effect).

The Fort Stockton City Council met in regular session on March 23, and voted to skip the city/county clean-up customarily scheduled for the last two weeks of March and the first week of April.

On March 22 at approximately 2 p.m., a Pecos County EMS ambulance caught fire while transporting a patient to another EMS entity who was waiting for them at Ward County Hospital in Monahans.

Former Pecos County Memorial Hospital CEO and current Rankin County Hospital District CEO Jim Horton is pictured with a bench seat that is honored after his late daughter Lindsey Horton on March 18 at the new built student plaza on the WRTTC/Midland College campus in Fort Stockton.

The Fort Stockton ISD Board of Trustees met in regular session on March 22, 2021. The majority of discussion focused on updates on infrastructure projects within the district, including the teacher housing complex and changes to Apache Elementary School’s air conditioning system.

Just two years ago the first Richard Reeves Memorial Cook-Off took place at Historic Fort grounds site in Fort Stockton.

Fort Stockton gas stations had a busy weekend of spring breakers fueling up for their ride home. Amid all the RVs and travel trailers pulling in, veteran Ivan Johnson found himself marooned here with his nine-week-old puppy “Pretty Girl”.

If you have an event for our Do Something! listing, please e-mail nathan.heuer@fortstocktonpioneer.com. MARCH19-20 The Richard Reeves Memorial CookOff will take place at Rooney Park in Fort Stockton on Friday and Saturday.

Glitzy Trendz owner Sonya Vick believes that everything happens for a reason. And to never lose sight of your dreams.