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.

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.

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.

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.

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.