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County tables bid approval for EMS additions

5 months ago By Shawn Yorks
Repairs and a remodel of the Pecos County EMS building will take a bit longer after the Pecos County Commissioner’s Court tabled action on the lone bid received during Monday morning’s 30-minute-long commissioner’s meeting. The only bid received and opened Oct. 12 was from OPREX Construction of Lubbock for a $2.6 million base bid, an alternate bid of $98,500 was received for air conditioning in the ambulance bays.
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History comes alive at Historic Fort Stockton

5 months ago By Shawn Yorks

The Jumano Nation and Lipan Apache Band of Texas, in full native dress, provided a taste of their culture to school children from Fort Stockton and surrounding areas on Friday morning at Historic Fort Stockton. Pecos Brad Newton gives a presentation to Fort Stockton Intermediate School students during Friday’s Living History Days at Historic Fort Stockton.

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School Board honors Students of the month, renames middle school gym

5 months ago By Shawn Yorks
The Fort Stockton Middle School gym will soon have a new name, born from tragedy but memorializing a studentathlete whose name will forever be remembered. The Fort Stockton Independent School District Board of Trustees on Monday night voted unanimously to name the middle school gym in memory of Donavyn Vaughn, an eighth grader who passed away in 2020 and who would have been a senior this school year.
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City hears police, street department updates

6 months ago By News Staff

The Fort Stockton City Council heard presentations from city staff at its Oct. 10 meeting, including an update from police chief Ernesto Valasquez and public works director Luis Guerra. Guerra updated the council on the progress of various paving projects across Fort Stockton.

“We paved 676,296 square feet,” Guerra said. “Materials used was the equivalent of 6.7 miles. We used 1,696 tons of aggregate, 34,012 gallons of paving oil, 1,862 tons of base material.”

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TxDOT promotes safety with educational tours

6 months ago By Jeremy Gonzalez
The Texas Department of Transportation facility in Fort Stockton played host to educational tours for Fort Stockton Independent School District students last Thursday. Michelle Gonzalez, Administrative Assistant for the TxDOT Area Office in Fort Stockton said the tours were centrally focused on safety, and the occasion was a joint effort between Tx-DOT, EMS, the Department of Public Safety, the fire department and the Pecos County Sheriff’s Office.
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