Opinion

Back in 2017 I had this crazy idea to create a column that would showcase the numerous travelers that pass through Fort Stockton every week and I titled it “Where Ya Headed?”. From baby buffalos to surfing dogs, it became a unique gumbo of weekly interviews.

The evening of September 24 at sunset until sunset Monday evening September 25 is a very important day for the nation of Israel. It is when they celebrate Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement. Moses led them out of the land of Egypt, (Exodus 12:40&41).

Dear Neil: I’ve had a bird-of-paradise plant for 10 years. Originally it was in the ground, but I have since planted it into a large pot. However, it has never bloomed. Is there something I can do to get it to flower?

GUEST COLUMNIST The bloodshed was everywhere. It was all over my house, my parent’s house, my neighbors’ houses and splattered at any location in which anyone dared to pet my 9-week-old bundle of joy, Thurber the yellow Labrador.

GUEST COLUMNIST So, Dan – what are you doing tonight? After 40-plus years, I can still hear one of my best friends from college asking that dreaded question.

She was such a beautiful tri colored basset hound, was so good with children and always liked to be petted. She would lay at your feet for hours if you continued to rub on her with your feet.

Luke 5:37-39 : “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.

GARDENER’S MAILBAG Dear Neil: My magnolia tree took a real beating in this past summer’s hot weather. I watered it every other day.

When I was five years old and my father worked for a subdivision developer, the Tyree family was giddily comparing floorplans for constructing a new house on a wooded lot next to our crowded domicile.

When America went to sleep on the night of Aug. 23 following the Republican presidential candidates’ debate, the Real Clear Politics polling averages put former president Donald Trump at 55 percent, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at 14 and the rest of the field between less than one percent to seven...