June 2024

Dear Neil: I think you addressed this a year or two ago here, but I didn’t save the column. I have Texas mountain laurel seeds I would like to grow.

Alpine Avalanche.

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In the 1970s, I wrote a series of newspaper editorials against the strong trend in the legal community to ban any kind of cameras from courtrooms. Today, we are following two highprofile cases, and they still are banning cameras in the courtrooms.

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Send your community events to kara.gerbert@alpineavalanche. com June 21 and 28 TinkerCad Open Lab, 10 a.m.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved regulations banning canned hunts and implementing trapping standards for mountain lions during its May meeting. These changes are the first in more than 50 years regarding the management of mountain lions in Texas and move the state toward more modern hunting and trapping standards.

A weekend full of fun is on tap for residents and visitors to Fort Davis this upcoming Independence Day. Fort Davis begins their celebration on Thursday, July 4, and will conclude the weekend of fun with vendors at the courthouse on Sunday, July 7 in the morning and in the afternoon, they will close it all out with an 1880s baseball game at the Fort Davis National Historic Site.

A two-vehicle accident on Hwy 67 outside of Presidio sent five persons to Big Bend Regional Medical Center Sunday morning. According to information relayed by the Presidio County Sheriff’s Office, at approximately 10 a.m.

From 1-3 p.m. on Saturday, June 29, Front Street Books in Alpine will host a celebration of the release of “American Black Bears: New Neighbors in the Big Bend”, a new booklet of illustrations, information, and activities from local artist Chris Ruggia.