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The Pecos County Senior Citizens Center will host its annual Memorial Day Cookout lunch on Friday, May 19, at Noon at the Senior Center, located at 1010 W. 14th Street in Fort Stockton. Hamburgers, hot dogs and drinks will be provided but all attendees are asked to please bring a side dish or a dessert of their own making.

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.

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.com. MAY 19 The Pecos County Senior Citizens Center will host its annual Memorial Day Cookout lunch on Friday, May 19, at Noon at the Senior Center, located at 1010 W.

When Midland College holds its commencement ceremonies on Friday, one of the graduates receiving her degree will not have even graduated high school, yet. Fort Stockton High School senior Rylea Jackson has been taking classes at Midland College in addition to her studies at FSHS and will graduate Friday with an Associate of Arts Degree in General Studies, walking with the Fort Stockton High School Class of 2023, one week later.

When Fort Stockton voters chose to become a home-rule charter city last November, they voted for more control of city government, including elections. And with the May 6 municipal election complete, city residents will get to see part of what they voted for in action.

Belding Farms, a 60-yearold pecan farm in Fort Stockton, has taken legal steps to halt renewal of a groundwater permit to export water out of Pecos County to protect its water rights and those of all others and to ensure sustainability of the aquifer.

Education students at Sul Ross State University will be initiated into the Zeta Delta Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in a ceremony at the Gallego Center on Thursday, May 18, at 7 p.m. The 20 students include Jasmin Ballones (Eagle Pass), Darissa Cervantes (Del Rio), Fatima Diaz (Andrews), Michelle Evans (Del Rio), Beatriz Gomez-Gomez (Eagle Pass), Dawn Henry (Sabinal), Giselle Hernandez (Van Horn), Alexya Herrera (Eagle Pass), Elizabeth Lara (Eagle Pass), Richard Morris (Fort Stockton), Ivett Ramos (Presidio), Harlem Ramos (Fort Davis), Michelle Ruiz (Uvalde), Jose Salazar (Eagle Pass), Priscilla Sanchez (Del Rio), Luis Sandoval (El Paso), Ruby Sertuchi (Presidio), Charles Shewell (Huntsville), Victoria Ura (Eagle Pass) and Melissa Wesney (Alpine).

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.

The Center for Land Stewardship and Stakeholder Engagement at Boaderlands Research Institute (BRI) at Sul Ross State University has streamlined its application process for cost share conservation programs. Cost share programs reimburse a percentage of the overall cost of qualified conservation practices to selected landowners.

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