April 2022

The Big Bend Tri-County Aggie Muster will be held Thursday, April 21, at American Legion Post 79, 306 West Sul Ross, in Alpine beginning at 6 p.m. All former students and friends of Texas A&M University are invited to gather in camaraderie to remember those fellow Aggies who have passed away in the...

What is your favorite Easter tradition? Emily Hendryx, Alpine: My favorite Easter traditions consist of hunting eggs with my kids, church, and lunch with my family! Letty Carrillo, Alpine: Getting all of the family together at our house for lunch and an Easter egg hunt.

Members of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church’s Our Lady of Guadalupe organization - Mike “Coach” Pallanez, Rory Contreras, Berta Rios-Martinez, and Esther Cordova - pitched in on April 1 for the Guadalupanas Free Spaghetti Day drive-by pickup at the church in Alpine.

On April 6 Brewster County deputies, Marathon and Alpine volunteer fire departments, Texas A&M Forest Service, and a number of ranchers and other volunteers responded to a fire west of Marathon along the railroad tracks.

April 22, 1982 C o o k i e champion Belen Chavez of Junior Girl Scout Troop 18 sold 330 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, making her Alpine’s best two years in a row. She earned a cookie patch, a frisbee, a $65 camper ship, and $66 profit for her troop.

Dear Neil: This growth has been attached to the base of our sweetgum tree for the past year. It’s like hard Styrofoam, and it is about 2’x1’x4” thick.

During the week of April 11, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is surveying bighorn sheep and aoudad, or Barbary sheep, in Big Bend National Park. TPWD biologists are using a helicopter in the remote Mesa de Anguila area of the park to search for both species.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller invited Texas farmers and ranchers to apply for the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Family Land Heritage program, which since 1974 has paid tribute to families who have kept their land in continuous agricultural production for at least 100 years.

What are you especially looking forward to in your senior year?

Living in West Texas, hot sauce or salsa is a staple in most households. At least it is in mine. If I do not have at least a couple of diverse types of salsas and or hot sauce in my refrigerator, it feels as if it is almost naked.