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What are you especially looking forward to in your senior year? I’ve been mostly looking forward to graduating. What activities are you involved in during your senior year? I participated in cross country, and academic UIL, as well as working part time in my family business.

At this writing I’m waiting for a stone to be engraved for my parents’ gravesite. Our family wanted something to remember them by, something that will remain as long as this earth remains. I’ve noticed the many gravesite memorial stones as I walked through graveyards. There were of granite, limestone, and marble of various colors, sizes, and shapes. Most of the stones were engraved with names and dates. The dates often denoted the day the person was born and the day they died. I also noticed a dash in between these two dates. The dash represents the person’s life lived on earth. Very few engraved stones revealed much about that person’s experiences during the dash.

Alpine Elementary School students Maribel Rosas, Isaiah Gomez, Dago Navarrete, Misela Gonzalez, and Gerard Prieto, all from Debbie Hardin’s first grade class, enjoyed a fun-filled field day on May 13 on the elementary school front lawn. The day offered plenty of outdoor activities for kids as they enjoyed bean bag races, disc throwing, ball toss, and more, with Alpine High School students assisting the kids at the stations.

The Texas Historical Foundation recently approved grant funds for the Fort Davis Historical Society to install seamless gutters on the historic adobe building that houses the Overland Trail Museum. The building was constructed in 1883, then purchased by Nick Mersfelder in 1897.