July 2024

Birdies rain or shine

This year’s annual Sul Ross Ag and Rodeo Association reunion is scheduled for Friday, July 19 through Sunday, July 21 with most events occurring at the Everett E. Turner Range Animal Science complex.

The Alpine Emergency Services Board held its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, July 16 at 5:30 p.m. Vice Chairman Aaron Rodriguez conducted the meeting after the recent loss of Chairman Paul Loeffler.

The Alpine Cowboys have shown resilience and strength in their recent games, maintaining their status as the number one team in the Pecos League Mountain South Division with a remarkable 32-3 record.

Early in the morning, the catfish play tag. If you’ve ever seen a dog, get the “zoomies,” you’ll be picturing something very similar to the burst of energy Ictalurus lupus gets when the day’s first light hits the canals.

As a result of the surprising recent book, “Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics,” published in 2023 by U.T. history professor H. W. Brands, pointed out that extreme partisanship in U. S. politics has a 200+ year history.

The Big Bend Arts Council and the other businesses lost in the fire on May 26 would like to thank the Board of ArtWalk Alpine, Inc. for their fundraiser, “Let It Rain” which ran from Friday, June 28, with live music, 15 bands, at the Granada Theater through to Saturday as a silent auction, fajita...

You may have been told that illegal immigrants are voting in our elections, receiving welfare, bringing in most of the fentanyl, raising crime rates, and taking your jobs. All lies. This is the same tactic Hitler used to demonize Jews as causing all the ills in Germany in the 1920s and 30s.

A former Sul Ross professor of biology and zoologist, Dr. Steven G. Platt has published an extensive study of a rare turtle in Myanmar.

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