October 2021

All are invited to attend a special event planned for Oct. 22 at the Jeff Davis County Library in Fort Davis when a plaque designating it as a Literary Landmark and a tribute to the late author Lonn W. Taylor will take place.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 502 E. Lockhart Ave.

October 21 Kiwanis Spaghetti Supper, 5-7 p.m. at the Alpine Elementary School cafeteria.

Emma Morales, Alpine: I come from a small town where our hospital is the biggest thing in the community.

A consulting firm based out of Houston has been in Marathon surveying the town for potentially significant historic buildings from Tuesday to Thursday of this week. The firm, McDoux Preservation LLC, helped the Gage Hotel gain a place on the National Register of Historic Places at the end of 2020.

On Saturday, Oct. 23, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Friends of the Ruidosa Church will host an open house at the recently restored building in Ruidosa on FM 170 west of Presidio. The church was built in 1915, but fell into disrepair, and by 2000 the Diocese of El Paso recommended it be torn down.

Live theatrical productions have delighted audiences for centuries, and in the Big Bend area, Sul Ross State University’s theatre department has achieved that purpose by entertaining with unique experiences about all aspects of life.

The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service in Texas has announced the first funding application deadline of Oct. 29 for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. A second funding application deadline will be Feb. 11, 2022.

Alpine High School Project Graduation 2022 sponsored a cornhole tournament and taco sale at American Legion Post 79 on Oct. 16. In first place were Alex Gonzales and Camilo Celaya shown in the photo. All proceeds benefit Project Graduation 2022. Courtesy photot

It’s very easy these days to say that social media is toxic. People act in ways they’d never do in real life because it isn’t real life. They act like feral wolves because they can. The Twitter police don’t carry guns, and their badges are imaginary.