March 2022

The outdoor track and field season started off well for Alaska Anchorage senior and Alpine High School graduate Elena Cano, who used an NCAA Championships provisional qualifying performance in the hurdles to earn Great Northwest Athletic Conference Women’s Track Athlete of the Week honors.

Both Head Coach Monica Salmon and Head Coach Adam Llanez got their teams back on the winning track on March 22 against the Anthony Wildcats. Both teams traveled to Anthony for the wins. The Fightin’ Buck baseball team got a shutout, 11-0.

There are times in life when we experience a “lostness” when we cannot see what lies ahead. We cannot see our way forward or how to reach our destination in such areas as careers, education, finances, relationships, etc. Not knowing where to take the next step can be quite fearful and immobilizing.

Thank you to the community of Alpine and surrounding areas for your words of sympathy and kindness during our time of sorrow and sadness. For the calls, texts, cards, food, etc.

During the last years of the 1970s, we had a feckless U.S. president, a weak federal government, embassy attacks, foreign wars, environmental deceit, expensive gasoline, high inflation, shortage of goods, police hatred, violent riots, crime waves, increased murder, and much illegal drug use.

I want to congratulate my opponent in the recent election for Justice of the Peace. I have found my service to you for the last three years to be very rewarding. I believe I have made improvements in the office, and trust that my successor will be able to do the same.

Freddy C. Rubio passed away March 9, 2022, surrounded by his family in Fort Davis, Texas, at the age of 74 years.

Marathon Public Library is participating in the pilot phase of the Library Space Technology Network project.

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Alpine native Beryl P. Crowley of Austin has been selected as one of five recipients of the 2022 Texas Bar Foundation’s Outstanding 50 Year Lawyer Award.