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Each year, Sul Ross State University hosts the Big Bend Regional History Fair on its campus. Area students from Fort Davis, Marathon, Marfa, Valentine, and Alpine compete in both the junior and senior-level events.

Coach Cory Cason, and Renee Parson, both history teachers at Alpine High School embarked on a journey last summer thanks to a grant from the Fund For Teachers, following in the footsteps of worldchanging female spies. The Fund For Teachers Podcast features both of these educators, relaying their journey on researching and learning about the likes of Virginia Hall, Noor Inayat Khan, and Josephine Baker and their roles as spies in Europe.

Anyone familiar with the Davis Mountains knows that the prominent peak that is seen from almost any direction is Mount Livermore, the second-highest point in Texas. While researching William Livermore and his survey of the Davis Mountains and the mountain named after him, I remembered that the first European to visit the area was Antonio de Espejo. Espejo was here three hundred years before Livermore.

FIGHTIN’BUCK TRACK & FIELD Mar. 22-23 San Angelo Relays @San Angelo Mar.

The Alpine Fightin’ Bucks baseball team, like many sports at the high school level, faces numerous non-district opponents before they play the teams that “count.” And while the Bucks have struggled against a few tough opponents, their wins speak for themselves.

Last week the Lady Bucks softball program faced off with teams from Pecos, Big Spring, and Odessa. These were the final challenges for the Alpine team before they prepared for the upcoming district play starting this Friday, March 15.

The Alpine Fightin’ Buck girls’ track, and field team traveled to Odessa last week to compete in the 80th West Texas Relays held at Ratliff Stadium. Both the varsity and JV teams competed against heavy competition from schools such as 6A Odessa Permian and San Angelo Central.

The late Judy Magers, better known to most as the “Burro Lady” spent her days traveling the Big Bend area and beyond atop her burro Merle. Camping out in bar ditches, and coming into town only, when necessary, Magers was a familiar sight to those of us in this area. Now gone on to her great reward some 17 years past this January, Fort Stockton’s George Delgado has taken up the reins to honor Magers, so that she is not forgotten, in a 260-plus-mile trek aboard his trusty burro “Rojo”.