October 2025

The Alpine Runnin’ Bucks Cross-Country team traveled to Lubbock on Monday to compete in the 4-3A Cross Country Regional Championship at Mae Simmons Park. These runners ran their hearts out all season, all while fighting injuries and competing in other activities. The girls’ team came up just short, with no runners advancing to state. Wall and Holliday took the top two team spots for the ladies, followed by Jim Ned and Dalhart, securing the other top spots, for the top four finishers to head to Round Rock.

Betty Ruth Gibson Gaddis Yndo, age 96, of Alpine, passed peaceably, surrounded by family, in Austin, Texas. She is survived by seven children and stepchildren, eleven grandchildren, four great- grandchildren, and a million admirers She came from Stanton, TX, went to Baylor University, and at the State convention in Galveston became the first president of the newly formed Texas Nursing Students Association, only the fifth such program in the nation at that time.

Linda was born in Lewiston, Maine on September 10, 1955, and passed away in El Paso on October 11. She was preceded in death by her parents, Arthur and Rita Corriveau Foquette.

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” — Old saying attributed to many sources. I first heard it from my grandfather.

Texans will vote on 17 propositions, and of those, eight have direct and far-reaching impacts for rural Texans, ranchers, and landowners. Cattle Raisers PAC supports the following proposed state constitutional amendments: Propositions 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13, and 17. Early voting begins October 20, 2025, and ends October 31, 2025. Election Day is Tuesday, November 4, 2025.

Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part story. The Alpine City Council began its proceedings on Tuesday with a workshop focused on wastewater.

The Brewster County Commissioners met on Tuesday morning at the Brewster County Courthouse. The meeting was presided over by Brewster County Judge Greg Henington, and all commissioners were in attendance.

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Declared the state dish on May 11, 1977, with roots dating back over 140 years, beginning in San Antonio, the “Bowl of Red” is known for its controversy, particularly in South Brewster County, where the very first chili cookoff occurred in Terlingua. Due to disagreements between the founders, two separate cook-offs were formed in 1983.

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