January 2024

The Tri-County Voter Promoters are in need of volunteers to help register voters for the 2024 Democratic and Republican primaries. This group that serves Brewster, Jeff Davis, and Presidio counties will begin registering voters this month.

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The Permian Basin Area Foundation (PBAF), whose mission is to facilitate the creation of permanent charitable funds in partnership with numerous donors, has announced the opening of the 2024-2025 academic year scholarship application.

Recently, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) interviewed Jeanine Bishop and Vicki Gibson, founders of Mobile Comunidad about the region’s hospitality and tourism industry. The focus was on the nonprofi t group’s upcoming Mountain View Hospitality Academy in Fort Davis, whose goal is to train more locals in serving the needs of tourism in the region. Their plan is to utilize a partnership with another nonprofit and Cornell University to create the tourism academy. The article, by Texas reporter for WSJ Elizabeth Findell, ran on Christmas day.

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WEEK Alpine Humane Society Pet of the Week is Hazel. This sweet gal has been at the shelter since November 2023. She was found stray, but it seemed like someone cared for her at some point. She appears to have had surgery on one of her legs. She has another back leg with a paw that curves under and will be having surgery to remove that leg to improve her quality of life at the first of the year.

Alpine Avalanche __ D____ M _______ C _____ March 9, 1911 Pictured here, is the beautiful 1st Presbyterian church building with large and intricate windows and wide steeple. February 9, 1911 The Alpine Normal School has been made into a permanent institution.

Dear Neil: I have a 3-year-old Meyer lemon tree that I have protected for the winter with a large 8x6x8ft. collapsible greenhouse. It has two large “windows” on the sides and two large zipper doors at each end that I leave open in the daytime, and then zip closed if temperatures are going to drop to 45F. If it’s going to drop to 32F or colder, will I need to provide a heat source? The tree and greenhouse are in full sun, and it gets very warm very quickly in the morning when the sun hits it.

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Pursue peace with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. (Hebrews 12:14) An argument broke out at the diner. Disagreements were common at Tuesday breakfast, but this was becoming a doozy. The guys hadn’t gotten this into it since the one over college baseball. But Electric cars? There were strong feelings about that. The idea was crazy to one group. There had always been gas engines.