June 2024

HEAD OVER MEALS If you’re looking for something different to whip up for the weekly family dinner or to serve to a group of friends at your next dinner party, consider trying these steak roll-ups as they will surely be a hit with everyone. It isn’t uncommon for those of us living in the last frontier to plate up a nice, juicy steak with a side of veggies and perhaps potatoes or some other delightful starchy side dish such as mac and cheese or even rice.

In late June 1850 three hundred and forty wagons, 1,800 mules, 500 cattle, numerous horses, oxen, and various other animals, numbering 4000, left Fort Inge on the Frio River where the road to Eagle Pass separated from the newly established road to El Paso. In addition, there were 450 civilians headed to the California gold fields and 175 soldiers. It was 585 miles to the next point of civilization, El Paso.

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On Friday, May 31, the U.S. Border Patrol Big Bend Sector celebrated the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Border Patrol with a parade in downtown Marfa. The parade began at the USO building and ended at the Presidio County Courthouse, where the USBP pipe and drum corps and the rifle team performed. Along with these performances, a proclamation was read in honor of the centennial anniversary along with remarks from the mayor of Marfa.

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The Brewster County commissioner’s court met for its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, May 28. This meeting occurred two days after the historic fire that began on Sunday afternoon which destroyed several buildings and businesses in downtown Alpine.

At the recent May 23 Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting, commissioners unanimously voted to ban the canned hunting of mountain lions and to require that live mountain lions not be held in traps for longer than 36 hours.

The regular meeting of the Alpine Emergency Services Board was held Tuesday, May 28 in the Alpine Volunteer Fire Department meeting room. Aaron Rodriguez was the only board member absent, with the only position still left to be filled was that vacated by former Emergency Services Coordinator Stephanie Elmore.