The Odessa District of TxDOT has scheduled a virtual public meeting regarding proposed improvements to U.S. Highway 285 in Reeves and Pecos counties. The virtual public meeting is scheduled to begin at noon Wednesday, July 7. Following the virtual public meeting, the presentation will remain available for viewing through Friday, July 23, 2021.

The proposed project would go from Business Interstate 20 in Pecos in Reeves County to Highway 18 in Fort Stockton in Pecos County.

One of the Fort Stockton School Board’s biggest potential projects in 2021 reversed courses at the group’s regular meeting on June 28 upon the recommendation of superintendent Dr. Gabriel Zamora.

The Fort Stockton ISD School Board unanimously approved a proposal from JF Petroleum to build a transportation fuel station that was not to exceed a cost of $1,050,000 at the school board meeting on May 24.

The meeting was Ralph Traynham’s last as superintendent before Zamora took over those duties in June.

Elidia Pacheco Cervantez, was born on March 25, 1938 in Fort Stockton, to Natalio and Catarina Pacheco. She graduated from Fort Stockton High School in 1958 and then attended St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, where she studied business and lived at Providence where she was blessed with gratitude and hospitality.