November 2022

Body The City of Alpine began holding town hall meetings in October to enlist its’ citizens help in setting up a strategic plan for the city.

Body For more than a decade, locals and visitors alike have flocked to Marathon to take in the festivities of Fiesta de Noche Buena. Marathon’s main street will come alive with children caroling, the Marathon Volunteer Fire Department ushering in Mr. and Mrs.

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Body Commissioners Court held its regularly scheduled meeting on Nov. 22 with a general election recount update, and the selection of a newly formed evaluation committee to review and score requests for proposals for HOT tax collections topping the agenda.

Body Wilmuth McCarty Skiles, 91, of Langtry and Midland, passed away on Nov. 20. Wilmuth was born in 1931 in Mertzon, to Tillman and Ruby Rosser McCarty and lived her childhood at Mertzon.

Body Dr. Dan Mitchell Petrosky, Sr.

Body Joseph “JD” Alexander Osborne has moved to his permanent home, in Jesus’ arms, in Heaven. Joseph left on angel’s wings Saturday morning, Nov. 26, from Bell County, Texas, leaving behind his grieving family and friends.

Body Ingredients: 1 cup white syrup 1 cup white sugar 1 cup chopped pecan halves 3 eggs lightly beaten 2 tablespoons melted butter or margarine 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 9-inch unbaked pie shell Directions: Mix all ingredients, add pecans last, pour into pie shell.

Body Ingredients: 3 eggs lightly beaten 2 tablespoons butter 1 9-inch unbaked pie shell 1 cup white Karo syrup 1 ½ cups of pecans 1 cup of sugar 1 teaspoon of vanilla Glass pie pan – ideal Directions: Mix the first four ingredients and stir well, add vanilla and pecans, and pour into...

Body HEAD OVER MEALS We now find ourselves 24 days from Christmas. Where did the year go? It seems as if just yesterday we were ushering in 2022, in hopes that it would far surpass the chaos and mayhem of the previous two years.