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The Alpine Emergency Services Board held its regular meeting on Thursday, February 6. Albert Benitez was the only member not in attendance, and Albert Lujan joined via phone call.

Voucher bill passes Senate, arrives in House A bill to implement school vouchers in Texas sailed through the Senate largely on party lines last week and now awaits consideration in the House, the Austin American-Statesman reported. House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, said he believes there are enough votes in that chamber to pass the legislation, which was defeated a halfdozen times in 2023 by a coalition of Democratic and rural Republican members.

The Big Bend Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas will hold this month’s program on Saturday February 22 at 1 p.m. in the AEP room of the Alpine Public Library.