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DO SOMETHING!

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YOUR GUIDE TO LOCAL PLACES TO GO AND THINGS TO DO Your guide to local places to go and things to do! If you have an event for our Do Something! listing, please e-mail shawn. yorks@fortstocktonpioneer.
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County enters into lease agreement with FS Chamber for rodeo

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The five-year run of the Comanche Springs Rodeo has been a successful one for the Fort Stockton Chamber of Commerce and all of Pecos County. The Chamber and County hope to continue that trend, and mutually agreed to a five-year lease agreement on Monday morning to continue the rodeo every fourth weekend In March at the Pecos County Civic Center and Pecos County Coliseum.
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City ‘Disannexes’ property, amends ordinance for recreational off-highway vehicles

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The city of Fort Stockton city council has been working since late summer on changing the zoning for a 0.72-acre piece of property in the Orient Park Addition and annexing the property into the city limits at the request of then-property owners Eleno Flores and Jose Gilberto Flores as part of the Property Purchase Agreement, an action which the city completed Oct. 10 after a series of public hearings.
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Fort Stockton Rotary provides grant to Angel Flight

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The Fort Stockton Rotary Club made a donation of $2,500 and 30 gift bags to Dale Briscoe of Angel Flight to purchase airplane fuel and to provide blankets for patients he will carry to medical centers at no charge to the patient. The $2,500 came from $1,500 the club raised, plus a grant of $1,000 from the Rotary District office.