September 2022

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The Center for Big Bend Studies at Sul Ross State University received $1 million in funding from the Department of Education through the office of U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, Texas Congressional Dist. 23.

Brewster County Commissioners Court held its regularly scheduled meeting on Sept. 27, and the court approved the permitting process for the upcoming Terlingua international chili cookoffs. Commissioners also approved tax collection agreements and other contracts with various local non-profit groups. Commissioner, Pct. 3, Ruben Ortega, was absent.

On Sept. 24 a joint operation between Brewster County deputies and U.S. Border Patrol agents resulted in the apprehension of five illegal aliens from Mexico, and the arrest of Emanuel Hosea Hafford. Hafford was discovered to be smuggling the suspects on U.S. Highway 385 south of Marathon.

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Robert Dean Fields of Alpine, Texas, went to be with the Lord on Sept. 24, 2022, at the age of 51.

Water - what to do with it, and what do we do without it? I am a fourth generation rancher in Brewster County. While I have only lived and ranched here for the last 20 years, I see first hand every day I am at the ranch what water means to our environment, lifestyle, business, and our very survival.

“No problem.” That is how I used to reply to people who thanked me for holding the door open for them or for offering some other small gesture. I don’t know where I got into the habit of saying this to people, but I do not say it anymore.

I walk past it with every trip to my toolbox for another wrench - the tool I really needed when I thought the one in my hand would work. It’s a short journey through the door separating my workshop where the toolbox resides and the garage where my antique road warriors slumber.

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