Bill Everett of Fort Stockton worked about two months last spring, Gil said. We located places where they were major problems. The Texaco station west of town is a major roosting place, as is the old Shell station at U.S. 285 and I-20. Gil said poison is not recommended for the pigeons, because a child could pick it up, or an animal might eat the carcass of a poisoned pigeon and become sick or die. It won't kill them.
Pigeons like to be around people, so they roost in town and fly out into the country to feed.
Because they carry lice and disease, many people do not put out the welcome mat when they return to town. Fiber optics, an improved form of transmitting digital signals, is in sight for Kermit viewers, Hamlin added. Hamlin explained that Classic Cable is in the process of rebuilding Kermit's cable system, using fiber optics as its backbone. New cable lines were last installed in Pecos in the mid-1980s. Classic Cable purchased the system from United Video Cablevision two years ago.