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Student safety in Fort Stockton was at the forefront of the district’s school board meeting on June 30 and after much discussion between all trustees and law enforcement in attendance, Fort Stockton ISD decided to make a significant investment to further protect their students.

The Fort Stockton Independent School District will enter the 2022-2023 school year with five school resource officers – one at each campus with students – via a unanimous approval by the FSISD School Board.

Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) successfully included $5,484,000 for a multi-county radio infrastructure upgrade in the first draft of the FY23 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations bill.

If secured, funding for this project will modernize the trunking radio system used by multiple law enforcement and first responder agencies in a nine-county region along the border.

The nine counties are Uvalde, Dimmit, Edwards, Kinney, La Salle, Maverick, Real, Val Verde, and Zavala.

Consumers in Texas and across the country will pay more for a Fourth of July cookout, according to a recent American Farm Bureau Federation marketbasket survey.

The national average cost of a summer cookout for 10 people is $69.68, which breaks down to less than $7 per person. The overall cost for the cookout is up 17% or about $10 from last year, a result of ongoing supply chain disruptions, inflation, and the war in Ukraine.

June 22

Ixzayana Lara Hernandez, of Fort Stockton at 5 p.m., officers from the Pecos County Sheriff’s Office apprehended Hernandez and was charged with assault causes bodily injury family violence. Hernandez received a $2,000 bond and is still in jail.

Construction at the Centennial Bar Lounge, located at the corner of Second and Main Street in Fort Stockton, has made significant progress in recent time and will soon be open to the public in the coming months.

The Fort Stockton Independent School District will hold their regular school board meeting on Thursday, June 30 starting at 6 p.m. at the district’s administrative building. The School Resource Officer Program for the 2022-2023 school year is one of the 12 action items on the agenda. At a special school board meeting on June 8, the school board discussed at length the number of school resource officers the district should employ.