January 2023

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Lansing Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Lansing, Mich., had the privilege to present its first Women in American History Award honoring Hallie Stillwell. The ceremony was on Saturday, Jan. 14, at the Hallie’s Hall of Fame which is located between Marathon TX and Big Bend National Park.

WEEK Alpine Humane Society Pet of the Week is Billy. Billy loves going for walks, is great on a leash, and takes his job of identifying and cataloguing new scents very seriously.

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Beginning Feb. 1 and continuing through May 31, the National Park Service, NPS will again temporarily close select areas in the Chisos Mountains to protect nesting falcons.

The Texas Mountain Trail Region-TMTR, is part of the Texas Historical Commission’s -THC award-winning Texas Heritage Trails Program -THTP heritage tourism initiative. This economic development initiative encourages communities, heritage regions, and the state to partner and promote Texas’ historic and cultural resources. These successful local preservation efforts, combined with statewide marketing of heritage regions as tourism destinations, increase visitation to cultural and historic sites and bring more dollars to Texas communities. This in turn supports the THC’s mission to protect and preserve the state’s historic and prehistoric resources for the use, education, economic benefit, and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Big Bend Regional Hospital District appointed Reagan Reed, the superintendent of Terlingua Common School District, to its Board of Directors on Jan. 19. Mr. Reed filled the unexpired term for Single Member District 3, representing the Terlingua area. The seat was previously held by Greg Henington who resigned from the hospital district board upon taking office as Brewster County Judge at the first of the year.

In a recent newspaper article Barry Scobee was described as a “pulp fiction writer.” While by his own admission he wrote stories for a variety of magazines, some of the “pulp” variety, Scobee was first, and foremost, a newspaperman. To describe him as a “pulp fiction writer” does him a disservice. Were it not for Scobee, there might not be a Fort Davis National Historic Site, and much of the history of the community may have been lost. He writes, “I make no claim to being an academician or creative writer, nor a bornin- the-fabric storyteller, I am a reporter.” By the same measure, he never claimed to be a great historian, but we own much of what we do know of our history to him.

Thomas Leyva, 34, of Alpine, passed away from complications of chronic medical conditions on Jan. 22. Thomas was born to Arturo Leyva and Naomi Natividad in Alpine on Dec. 16, 1988. Thomas graduated from Alpine High School in 2007 and he earned a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Sul Ross State University in 2015. He worked at Judy’s Bread and Breakfast for the last several years, a place he felt very comfortable and loved.