August 2022

Marching to the beat of Friday Night Lights

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With the start of a new school year comes the high school football season in Texas, and with it the halftime performance that a talented marching band brings to enhance the school’s pride. For new Alpine High School Band Director A.K.
Alpine High School drum majors Zöe Arredondo, Alyssa Nañez, and Jobre Evans. Courtesy photo

Cross country kicks off season

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Cross Country Coach, Alpine High School The Alpine cross country season started off this year at the Derek Hernandez Memorial Relay in Andrews on Aug. 20.
Runnin’ Buck girls relay team members Alexa Renteria, Danica Mulholland, and Megan Struthers take a break during the Derek Hernandez Memorial Relay in Andrews on Aug. 20.

Lady Bucks place third in Wink

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Publisher The Alpine Lady Bucks hit the ground running on Aug. 9 against the 2-A Fort Hancock Lady Mustangs held at the Gallego Center at Sul Ross State University.
Alpine High School junior Hannah Juett goes up for a kill at the Gallego Center last week. Avalanche photo by J.T. Maroney

Volunteerism shows love for community

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Executive Assistant, Brewster County Volunteerism is a word not often seen or heard in our dayto- day life. At the same time we all have an idea of what it means, and we form our own opinion or definition of what something means according to our personal convenience.
KIMBERLY BAEZA

If you can’t beat the heat, join it

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JASE GRAVES Guest Columnist East Texas is hot, and not in the way you compliment your wife when she’s mad at you for performing an epic cannonball while she’s lounging by the pool with her laptop. For the past few weeks, Texas (and much of the world) has been suffering through a distressing phenomenon known as summer, that time of year when we all remember what it’s like being toddlers walking around with drenched undergarments.
If you can’t beat the heat, join it