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It is Cinco de Mayo today, and colorful and festive celebrations of Mexican-American culture and heritage will be rampant in Alpine this weekend. Residents and visitors will come out to mark the occasion with parades, fiestas, mariachi and Tejano music, and Mexican fare sure to tantalize anyone’s taste buds.

Early voting for the City of Alpine, Alpine ISD Board of Trustees, and two proposed Texas constitutional amendments is over, but voters can still go the polls on Saturday, May 7. During in person early voting, 425 cast ballots in the city election, 78 in the AISD election, and 459 in the constitutional amendment election.

A mounted color guard leads the way for Alpine’s Cinco de Mayo parade through downtown on Holland Avenue on May 4, 2019. This popular celebration returns to Alpine on May 7 after a two-year hiatus. Avalanche photo by Gail Diane Yovanovich

In south Brewster County, one may not associate the remote and vast area of land between Terlingua and Lajitas as something with the capacity to impact a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty, but that is exactly what Southern Methodist University is doing.

Have you ever experienced a West Texas storm roll in? One moment the sky can seem bright and clear, and the next dark and gloomy. And the way you felt - did that change too? One minute we can be up and hopeful, and the next down and doubtful when circumstances change. For many of us, stress and doubt roll in and hover like a storm cloud of uncertainty. Its winds and hail threaten to damage our physical, financial, and social well-being. Perhaps anxiety has also crept in with the storm.

What a day the Lady Bucks had in Denver City last week as they took the title at the Area track meet with a total score of 169 points. The boys took home fourth place with 71 points.

Sophomore pitcher Hannah Juett has been the Buck starting pitcher all year, pictured here in Alpine as she helps the Lady Bucks fight against Presidio. The Bucks move into playoffs this evening in Big Spring as they take on Littlefield. The Lady bucks are 6-2 in district.

Brewster County Commissioners Court held its regularly scheduled meeting on April 26, and the issue of hotel occupancy tax violators generated plenty of discussion among County Judge Eleazar Cano, County Tourism Director Robert Alvarez, and commissioners.