November 2022

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. These meetings are geared toward having the citizens of Alpine express their views, concerns, and ideas about issues in the community, to be addressed by the elected officials and employees of the city, to formulate a strategic plan.

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. Claus, and local businesses and organizations setting up tables and opening their doors to help herald in the Christmas spirit. This year’s festivities will kick off at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3 and last until 9 p.m. Robert Alvarez of Visit Big Bend stated, “Fiesta de Noche Buena is a wonderful holiday event put on by the Marathon Chamber of Commerce. Every year, this taste of a ‘small town Christmas’ grows and grows. This year should be the best ever.”

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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.

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. Following high school graduation, she attended Sul Ross State University where she met Jack Skiles, of Langtry. They married on Sept. 1, 1951, in Mertzon. She obtained a B.S. degree in 1952 and an M.A. degree in 1958.

Dr. Dan Mitchell Petrosky, Sr.

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.

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. Bake for 15 minutes at 400 degrees.

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 pie shell and bake for 50 minutes at 350 degrees..

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.