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The Fort Stockton City Council took steps to upgrade the Fort Stockton Police Department dispatch center at its Nov. 13 meeting, awarding a bid to Tri-Star Communications to install two new dispatch consoles. The city received two bids, the one from Tri-Star and the other from Petro Communications, Inc.

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Pecos County Sheriff Thomas J. “TJ” Perkins today filed for reelection to the job with a new political party affiliation.

Nobody wants to be in need of an air ambulance service, but it’s something nice to have when the need arises. The Pecos County Commissioner’s Court on Monday morning renewed a contract with Air Med Care Network, which provides emergency air ambulance service to Pecos County and dozens of counties across Texas and the United States.

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The economic outlook is bright for Fort Stockton and Pecos County. Economic Development Director Remie Ramos presented is quarterly report at Monday night’s Fort Stockton city council meeting, and said the unemployment rate dropped from July to September and sales tax collection saw a steady increase, up nearly 18% in 2023 so far compared to the previous year.

Rainy conditions and excessive speed were reportedly the cause of a single vehicle crash 15 miles east of Fort Stockton on I-10 around 8 a.m. Thursday. According to the Department of Public Safety, a 2019 Chevrolet Impala driven by Anil Jassani, 23, of Houston, was traveling east on the interstate near Mile Marker 241 when the driver attempted to pass another vehicle at a high rate of speed on the wet roadway in rainy conditions.

MARFA – Walter N. Slosar was selected for the Senior Executive Service position of Chief Patrol Agent, Big Bend Sector, and assumed those duties last week at Sector headquarters in Marfa.