November 2022

The Alpine Fightin’ Buck football team ended their season before the Thanksgiving holiday break, when the Bucks traveled to Post on Nov. 18 to play a skilled Spearman team for the Area championship.

Fresh out of football and back on the basketball court, the Alpine Bucks didn’t miss a beat in their season basketball opener Monday in Midland, downing Midland Leadership Charter Academy, 81-26. The Bucks jumped off to a 19-6 advantage in the first quarter and led 3915 at halftime. Alpine outscored the Eagles 4211 in the second half.

Alpine ISD Board of Trustees held its regularly scheduled board meeting on Nov. 16 and district-wide pay raises, a high school construction update, and an enrollment report topped the agenda.

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Alpine native James Morris, of the Aircraft Operations Division- Texas Department of Public Safety, was recently awarded the Heroism award at the Fox Nation Patriot Awards held in Hollywood, Florida last Thursday.

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On Nov. 14, 2022, Aurie Mitchell West was called home to her Lord and Savior at the age of 84. Aurie was born on November 15, 1937, to William Hayes Mitchell Sr. and Adele Crain Mitchell of Marfa. Marfa was where she made her lifetime home with the love of her life, Guy Gene West. Aurie met Gene at Bloys Campmeeting and they were married on Sept. 8, 1954. Together they continued Aurie’s family’s heritage, and she became a fifth-generation cattle rancher in the state of Texas, and fourth generation in Presidio County while raising their five children.

Born on March 28, 1927, in Oberlin, La, Julie grew up in Eunice, La, where she was the oldest of 11. Julie passed away Nov. 1. She played basketball and sewed for her family. At the age of 21, she moved to Houston, where she taught dance lessons at the Arthur Murray Dance Studio. One of her students became the love of her life and she would marry Tom Knight in 1951. They lived in several places before settling in Pearland to raise their three children.

Dorothy “Dottie” Hocker Smith died peacefully in her home in Alpine on Saturday, Nov. 12 after a long battle with ALS. She was surrounded by her family and her loving caregivers. Born April 4, 1943, to Walter and Pansy Hocker in Corpus Christi, she graduated from Irvin High School in El Paso before enrolling at Sul Ross State College in Alpine. At Sul Ross, she met her future husband, Milton R. Smith, Jr of Alpine and they married in May of 1963. Together they moved to College Station where Milton attended graduate school at Texas A&M, and Dottie enrolled to continue her undergraduate studies.

HEAD OVER MEALS With Thanksgiving and the holiday season upon us, one might wonder if the pilgrims had bread at their table. This is something to contemplate if one is unfamiliar with American holiday traditions.