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The vast expanse of West Texas is what brings visitors and residents to the Trans Pecos and Davis Mountains, but those wide-open spaces can be difficult for school athletic teams who travel those long distance to play one another. But soon, Fort Stockton Middle and High School athletes and coaches will travel in style thanks to seven new buses approved for purchase at Monday’s district school board meeting.

The Pecos County Sheriff’s Office K9 Unit waspatrollingIH-10onSept.23whentheDeputy observed a vehicle make an unsafe lane change, and then follow a commercial vehicle at an unsafe distance. The Deputy conducted a traffic stop and contacted the driver.

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The Pecos County Commissioners Court breezed through an abbreviated agenda Monday morning, approving everything that was up for discussion. Things got started when Pecos County Extension Agent Elaine Haby read a lengthy proclamation as the commissioner’s court recognized National 4-H week Oct.

Several Opinion pieces have been published in the Pioneer questioning the health and wellbeing of the Edwards-Trinity Aquifer in the Fort Stockton area. This Aquifer is an incredible resource which recharges annually and has long supplied drinking water to Ft. Stockton, irrigation for local farmers, and periodic winter flows to Comanche Springs.

The 2023 Fort Stockton High School Homecoming Court is, from left, Isaiah Velasquez, Elizabeth Bislar, Jaslyn Pacheco, Ector Martinez, Anna Aguirre, Johnny Brown III, Amaya Urias, Aryan Hernandez, Luke Pules, and Alissandra Jackson. The king and queen will be crowned prior to Friday’s Homecoming football game against Ysleta.

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It is important to note that an arrest should not be considered as evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

A 58-year-old Alpine man was killed Sept. 14 when a vehicle he was driving ran off the roadway on Farm-to-Market Road 1776, one mile north of Interstate 10 in Pecos County. The accident took place at approximately 7:06 p.m. when Jason Keith Richardson, 58, of Alpine, was driving his 1995 Honda Accord southbound on FM 1776 at what Troopers described as an unsafe speed when he failed to negotiate a curve in the roadway. The vehicle veered off the highway into the east barrow ditch, over-corrected, and rolled over. The driver was ejected and pronounced deceased at the scene by Justice of the Peace Mitchell.