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. So, after you go trick or treating you take your candy to the hospital, and you go into the x-ray machine, and you send all your candy down the x-ray machine, and then it will tell you if there’s anything sketchy in your candy. Then at the end you get a little bit extra in your bucket.

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. In 2019 it was turned over from Presidio County to the non-profit Friends group for restoration and repair. Photo by Mike Green

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. In fact social media is one big imaginary world, and we’re all way too wrapped up in things that don’t matter - the opinions expressed by strangers in public. Last week, Jon Gruden’s life exploded because of some private email exchanges that he had with a colleague between 2011 and 2018. The emails included comments that were objectively racist, sexist, and homophobic, and it’s hard to figure out how to defend them. You really can’t. Gruden doesn’t.