February 1, 2012

BREAKING: Ozona moves to 1A in UIL Realignment

Ozona High School will be competing in the Class 1A division for the next two years. This morning the UIL announced the 2012-2014 district realignments for football and basketball.

Ozona is in Conference 1A Division 1 Region 4 District 14-1A with Brackettville Brackett, Center Point, Harper, Junction and Mason.

For basketball, Ozona is in Conference 1A Division 1 Region 1 District 8-1A
with Christoval, Eldoroado, Irion County, Miles, San Angelo TLC Academy and Winters.

Ozona turned in a high school enrollment of 199. The cutoff for 1A was 199 and below. In the football districts, all schools are about even on enrollment. Ozona is the school with the largest enrollment in the basketball district.

Also moving from 2A to 1A was Anson, Axtell, Forsan, Harleton, Harper, Hico, Italy, Jewett Leon, Joaquin, Junction, Ozona, Premont, San Augustine, San Saba, Thorndale, Three Rivers and Weimar.

Area teams Sonora and Big Lake will be competing against each other in Class 2A Division 2 football in District 3, along with Alpine, Coahoma, Crane and Stanton.

In basketball, Sonora and Big Lake will be in Class 2A District 5 with Alpine, Crane, Kermit and Tornillo.

More details will be available in the Feb. 8 edition.
Click on the UIL website for more information on the realignment.

 

2011 is Crockett County's driest year

It was a year to remember; a dry year. Since 1931, 2011 is Crockett County's driest year on record. According to data from the Crockett County Groundwater District, the county only received an average of 5.54 inches of rain. The last time Crockett County saw a yearly average in single digits was 1956 when the county received 9.11 inches. In fact, the county received more rain per year during the infamous 1950s drought than 2011. In 1951, the yearly average was 7.23 and 1952 saw 8.27 inches. Since 1995, Crockett County has seen up and down periods with high totals being 34.75 in 2004 and 28.89 in 2007. Prior to 2011, the lowest since 1995 has been 13.02 in 2006. Click here to read more...

Congressional candidate
Pete Gallego visiting Ozona today

State Representative and candidate for U.S. Congress Pete Gallego, D-Alpine, is stopping in Ozona today (Feb. 1) to meet with the public and the Crockett County Commissioners.
The informal meeting will be at noon at El Chato's Restaurant. The meeting is open to the public.
Gallego is a native of Alpine, graduate of Sul Ross State University and the University of Texas School of Law and has served as State Representative since 1990.
Now, Gallego is running in the Democratic Primary for U.S. Representative of District 23, currently held by Republican Francisco "Quico" Canseco.
Gallego is being challenged in the primary by John Bustamante, of San Antonio.
In a press release Monday, Gallego announced his strong support for banning members of Congress from insider trading, saying it was simply common sense to hold Congress accountable to the same laws as everyone else.
Gallego announced his support of the Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge, or STOCK Act, that would impose that ban.
A recent "60 Minutes" exposé revealed that Members of Congress were engaging in insider stock trades—all completely legally since Congress exempted itself from the federal law against the practice.
"I am for making it illegal for Congress to engage in insider trading and so is 99.9 percent of everyone else on Earth. The only ones against making insider trading for Congress are a few Members of Congress like Congressman Canseco," said Gallego. "This is why this is the most unpopular Congress in our history, and it's also why we need a new Congressman."
For more information, visit http://petegallego.com.